Victoria Coren

Review from PokerPages.Com

Coren has supplemented what she earns as a writer with over $1,000,000 in tournament cash. She is not one for bold, outrageous behavior at the table. She is typically a quiet player but enjoys being talkative at the table when she likes who she is playing against. Coren plays for fun and makes it known that she disapproves of players who scowl at their opponents behind sunglasses. It is clear she is nice and she will be the first one to admit that she is lucky. 


Lady Luck has charmed Coren at the tables. This was the case in September 2006, when Coren became the only woman to win a major European title taking first place in the London leg of the European Poker Tour (EPT) and earning £500,000. She went into the tournament with no plans to win and only wanted to enjoy the game. A couple of glasses of red wine nearly sapped that lucky spirit until a cup of tea leveled out Coren's game.

Annie Duke

 Review from Imaconline.Com 

In 1994 Annie Duke moved to Las Vegas to play poker full time, after taking 13th in her first World Series of Poker tournament, knocking out her brother in the process.  Ironically, it was Howard who suggested that Annie play in the event. 

At the World Series of Poker in 2000, Annie finished the Main Event in 10th place, one spot short of the final table, while she was eight months pregnant with her third child.  In 2004 Annie won the $2,000 Omaha Hi/Lo Split event for her first WSOP bracelet.  Later in the year, at the inaugural winner-take-all invitation only World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions, Annie Duke took the first place price of $2 million.  She had to beat her brother Howard, Phil Hellmuth, Doyle Brunson, and several other poker greats to win the event. 

Annie and Howard frequently faced each other in 2004, with Annie eliminating Howard from four separate WSOP events.
 

Barbara Enright
 
Review from PokerPages.Com
 

Barbara Enright began playing poker at home at the age of 4, playing five card draw against her older brother - usually making him cry. Her passion for the game persisted, and Enright started playing in card rooms for the first time in 1976, She placed first in numerous tournaments, not the least of which being her three World Series of Poker Bracelets. Enright holds the distinction of being the only female player ever to make it to the final table of the WSOP main event. Barbara is also a respected writer, Editor-in-Chief of Woman Poker Player magazine, and a motivational speaker.
 

Clonie Gowan
 
Review from PokerPages 

Once enjoying scuba-diving in Costa Rica she decided to participate in a World Poker Tour event which was being held there. Her opponents didn’t take the amateur player seriously and cracked jokes about blondes to each other. But Clonie surprised everybody by finishing tenth, in the money. She also won the sit at WPT’s “Ladies Night” tournament and finished first. She managed to beat such stars as Annie Duke, Jennifer Harman and Kathy Liebert and thus gained a great popularity. 


After winning at Costa Rica she sold her business because it was taking too much time. Now she lives in Dallas with her husband and two children and plays poker for living. She can outplay not only women. “With the guys I play with in Dallas, I am just another player who is capable of taking their money. I don’t think being a woman hurts me at all. Most men don’t give women credit for playing poker well, so that hurts them.” 


And men do respect her “super-aggressive” (as she states it) playing style. “She plays pretty damn good,” said TJ Cloutier about Clonie Gowen. And this man is worth believing. 
 

Jennifer Harman

Review from PokerPages.Com

Jennifer Harman was born in Reno NV. By the time Harman was eight years old, she was playing poker for real money - and winning. In the mid-1980s, Harman turned pro and began her climb up the ladder from $50-100 limits to $100-200, then on to $400-800 and much higher. Today, she plays in the very highest limit games in the world and is one of the game's most feared and respected foes.

Try sitting down in a $20,000-40,000 game with a million dollars in chips. Harman has done it - several times. To date, she has also made seven WSOP final tables and won two gold Bracelets - Deuce-to-Seven Lowball in 2000 and Limit Hold'em in 2002. She wrote the chapter on Limit Hold'em for Doyle Brunson's book, Super-System 2. She's married to her sweetheart, Marco. Oddly enough, Harman is often mistakenly referred to as the best woman player in the world. She is more correctly - one of the best poker players in the world - male or female -- in both tournaments and live action. 

Susie Isaacs 

Review from LaunchPoker.Com

Isaacs competitive spirit was evident at an early age. The game was so important to her that she sold off her prized comic books to finance her first bankroll. Many years later in 1986 she moved to Las Vegas and the lure of poker prompted her to learn as much as she could about the sport. 


The studying paid off - in a history making kind of way for Isaacs. In 1996 and 1997 she earned the coveted title of the first woman to win the World Series of Poker ladies championship. In 1998 she gave her best to win the million dollar pot and placed 10th in the World Series of Poker $10,000 event. 


Isaacs plays poker as well as she writes about it. She maintains a regular column called "Chip Chatter" in the Poker Player newspaper. Despite her schedule as a cash and title-winning professional tournament regular, Isaacs writes for various poker media including the Poker Digest, Card Player magazine, Casino Player, and Strictly Slots. She even penned her own story called, "Ms. Poker - Up Close and Personal" in 1999 and is working on a sequel.
 

Kathy Liebert

Review from PokerPages.Com
 

Kathy Liebert is one of the all time leading female money winners in professional poker. She won the $1,500 Hold 'Em Shoot Event at the 2004 World Series of Poker, claiming a $110,180 paycheck and joining the elite World Series bracelet winners. In addition to her two career highlights, she has been in the money at more than three dozen major international poker tournaments and has amassed more than $3 million tournament winnings in ten years of play.

A graduate of Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY, with a degree in business and finance, Liebert is known for her cool, incisive play and her professional demeanor. Once a Dunn & Bradstreet executive, she "discarded" the corporate world for the world of cards. After building a nest egg playing the stock market, Liebert took a chance and began playing in the card rooms of the Colorado Rockies, where she started with $5 Limit Poker. Over the years, she has built up a reputation as a feared and respected competitor in the extremely challenging world of tournament poker. 

Liz Lieu

Review from LaunchPoker.Com
 

Liz currently calls Los Angeles, California but spends almost as much time gambling in Vegas as she does in Bruin state home. For most of her dozen years of poker playing she has focused on the cash game. She had gotten good enough to spend the last four years making her living exclusively as a poker player. Recently though, she has added tournament play to her repertoire. This was a good move for her and a bad move for anyone who finds themselves sitting across from her at a tourney. This year alone, out of seven high profile tournaments, the lovely Ms. Lieu has finished in the top twenty in six of them. Not bad for somebody who fancied themselves as a ring game specialist. 


If her skill at poker was some sort of secret, the whole thing was cracked wide open when Liz showed up at the World Series of Poker in 2005. She was immediately the center of attention at any table she sat at. Those who didn’t take her seriously paid a heavy price in chips. At the end of that tournament, the newcomer, who is Vietnam’s gift to the world of poker, walked away with fifth place and $177,000. 


With other impressive finishes at the 2005 World Poker Finals, the Festa al Lago IV, and the WSOP it is obvious we have a star in the making here. She has made over a quarter of a million dollars in her first year of tournament play. It should be interesting to see where Liz goes from here. 
 

Isabelle Mercier

Review from PokerPages.Com 

Mercier loved the game so much that she began working as a dealer when she grew up. Then she was a poker manager at the Aviation Club de France. While doing these jobs she was constantly learning to play and once she decided that now she had an ability to play poker for living. 


Isabelle became a star after winning the WPT “Ladies’ Night Out II.” She managed to beat five other women (such poker celebrities as Cyndy Violette were among them) at a rough competition. Isabelle was cool-minded and calculating. She cared about her opponents much more than about the cards and it led her to the first place. However many of those who watched the event did not like her “staring” at other players. A good poker player plays his opponents not his cards. If she knows this she will always do good at a poker table. 

Vanessa Rousso

Review from PokerPages.Com
 

Rousso came in 7th at the World Poker Tour Championship event this year and made over a quarter of a million dollars. She won $285,450 in September 2006, at the $5,000 No Limit Holdem at Borgata. Not too shabby for someone who considers herself a "master of low expectations" at the poker table. 


New York born Rousso is a United States and French citizen. She speaks English, French, and Spanish. This high school valedictorian later graduated from Duke University with a degree in economics and a minor in political science. Rousso also attended the University of Miami Law School and devoted her efforts to community service through her creation of the Charity Players Tour golf tournament. Rousso studied game theory at Duke and this remains one of her hobbies today. She is now a contributing writer for American Poker Player magazine - writing about game theory and strategy.
 

Rousso enjoys traveling, reading, backgammon, the Rubix Cube, and playing video games with her 8 year old brother. She may be new but she has already earned the nickname of the "Lady Maverick" - and the poker world should keep an eye on this playful lady. 
 

Shirley Rosario
 
Review from PokerPages.Com

Shirley is a fixture at the Bicycle casino in Los Angeles, California, where she is a prop player. As an employee of the casino she is paid to jump start tables that may be lacking in action. This is the occupation that is tailor made for a professional who is chasing their first WSOP bracelet. Day after day Shirley uses the casino patrons as sparring partners to sharpen her claws on, in preparation for tournament play.


Satellite tournaments and online games are her normal stomping grounds. By her own admission, she spends almost forty hours a week on the computer in several online poker rooms. There is a method to this madness though. This is how she hones her skill. Shirley is one of the most respected Omaha players in the world today.


Gender stereotypes being what they are, the mental vision one gets when they think of a poker player is a middle-aged gentleman whose taste in attire is questionable at best with a physique that resembles a potato. Shirley does not fit this image and managed to take everyone by surprise when she played her way into the 2004 WSOP main event. 
 

Mimi Tran
 
Review from LaunchPoker.Com

Tran was instructed in how to play poker while in a relationship with well known poker pro, Barry Greenstein. In return for these lessons, she taught him her native toungue of Vietnameese. Considering which skill has more practical uses here in the United States, this bargain is almost the equivelent of some well meaning Native Americans trading Manhatten island for some rather pretty beads. 


Since her days as student under Greenstein she has not only plied the skills she has learned with expert precision, but has also dished out a few lessons of her own. Those who have handed over their wallets to her after losing in a side game are all to aware of her skill level. In the mid nineties she started playing tournaments, and has impressed many. She often finishes near the top and has mad over $300,000 in 2005 alone. 


Mimi (Tithi) is not only motivated by money though. She has strong family ties and supports not only her children here, but the family she has back in Viet Nam. Her professionalism at the table, and dedication to family speaks volumes about the sort of person she is.  

Cyndy Violette 

Review from PokerPages.Com

Cyndy started playing poker professionally at a time when most young, good-looking twenty-somethings were either graduating from college, or getting married and starting families. She started out dealing blackjack in downtown Las Vegas back in 1982, and gradually moved her way to the other side of the table as a player. Violette played low- to middle-limit poker around Las Vegas and California during the poker boom on the 80s. Just when it looked like Violette might become poker's youngest and brightest star, she got married and quit playing poker for a two-year period. Living in Washington State, Violette was away from the poker scene and gradually realized she missed the game and the freedom of the poker playing lifestyle.

After her divorce, Violette's life took a drastic turn when she visited Atlantic City in 1993, shortly after poker was legalized. Violette immediately packed her bags, moved East, and made a fortune playing $75-150 seven-card stud, which later evolved into games with much higher stakes – sometimes as high as $2,000-$4,000.