Kathy Liebert is a female pioneer of poker. She was one of the first to prove that not only guys can play poker. She seems to feel OK in the tough world of men and even is known as a “ruthless player”. Kathy has a B. S. degree in business and finance from Marist College in Poughkeepsie, NY and even worked as an analyst for a year. She also had an experience of working on the stock market. After quitting the job and traveling for a while, she moved to California. Her poker career began with working as a prop - a player who gets paid by casinos to start poker games or keep them going. “Kathy you play so well, why don’t you become a professional player?” she once heard from a friend. “That makes sense,” thought Kathy. She quit her job and began playing full-time.
Winning A Million And Taking A Half Of It Her first major achievement is the first place in the Party Poker Million. Yes she won exactly 1,000,000 but was able to take only about half of the sum. But this was not because her bag wasn’t big enough. She had a kind of strange deal with Berj Kacherian and Phil Hellmuth, the second and third place winners, and had to share the money with them. A Tournament Lover Kathy Liebert is a good tournament player. Her poker skills are brilliant and I even don’t have to add “for a woman”. “We have distinguished ourselves as good players, not just good female players,” said once Kathy, speaking about herself, Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman. Kathy was the first woman who won the first prize in a major tournament and the first woman to win a $1 million tournament. Today she ranks fifth on the World Series Of Poker winnings list for women. In 2004 she won her first WSOP bracelet for finishing first at a Limit Hold’em Shootout. A Modest Star Kathy doesn’t like to give public speeches. She is just a professional poker player but not a talk-show host. She looks like those poker players of old school – silent concentrated and never saying word without a need.
