After two years working as a television presenter/commentator and tournament reporter on the professional poker tour, Michelle played in the $10,000 buy-in
World Series of Poker Main Event in 2008, where she was the "Last Woman Standing", placing 17th out of 6,844 players. It was the largest field ever beat by a female in live poker tournament history and earned her a payday of $334,534. A year later she competed as the only all-female team on the
Emmy Award–winning
15th season of
The Amazing Race, along with best friend and fellow poker pro
Maria Ho. The two made up the "poker girls" team and were eliminated three legs shy of the finish line. In 2010, she made four final tables but it wasn't until 2022 that she won her first WSOP gold ring at the World Series of Poker Circuit series in Lake Tahoe, California. portraying villainess Scarlett Kane, and competing on Food Network's
Worst Cooks in America LA Ink, where she finished in
Bobby Flay's final 3.In 2006, Michelle was heard nationwide on
Sirius Satellite Radio as an on-air reporter for
Bluff Magazine's live broadcast of the
2006 WSOP. In 2007, she became the first ever female hired as the resident and full-time on-camera host for Pokernews.com. In 2014, she was a series-regular (and resident villainess) on the
DeVanity. In 2015, she returned to her on-camera poker hosting roots, as a guest host and sideline reporter for the
Heartland Poker Tour. In 2018, she signed on as the Creative Director, and On-Camera Host of The Gardens Casino's 13-week celebrity poker live stream series
Gardens Poker Night and, subsequently, appears as a co-host on the
CBS Sports televised
Poker Night Live celebrity poker program
Reality television The Amazing Race In 2009, Michelle was invited to compete on the
15th season of the CBS competition reality show,
The Amazing Race. Alongside best friend and fellow poker player, Maria Ho the two made up the season's only all-female team and they traveled to Japan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Dubai, and The Netherlands, exiting the competition in 6th place.
Worst Cooks in America In 2012, Michelle competed as one of 16 contestants on season three of
Food Network's
Worst Cooks in America. She was picked by chef
Bobby Flay to compete as a member of his team. She made it down to the final three contestants on Bobby Flay's team and was sent home in episode six. ==Other work==