Starla was a two-time WSOP champion and made six final table appearances. With Doyle Brunson as her partner, she won the WSOP mixed doubles event in 1979. (The WSOP had a mixed doubles event from 1979-1983. It had a no-limit format in 1979 and 1980 and then switched to seven-card stud.) Starla won her other bracelet in 1995 in the ladies seven-card stud event.