Focus on Women: Today’s Best Female Poker Players

Published Thursday, February 7, 2008
Posted by Igor Ivanov

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Today’s best female poker players make up a pretty short list in my opinion. We see lots of female celebrity players, but when it comes to success and results there are only four I’m willing to mention.

Kathy Liebert has 153 cashes totalling $373,737 in tournament winnings and a WSOP bracelet. The other top female players are Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman. Both have over a million in tournament winnings and around 40 wins under their belt. Harman plays in the biggest cash games in the world, against the best in the business, so she would get the vote for No. 2.

The last player I’ll mention is 19-year-old Annette Obrestad. She has only been playing a couple of years but is already closing in on Liebert’s totals. She already has a WSOP circuit bracelet, where she won $2M. The world awaits her arrival in Vegas in two years.