MEET LADY LUCK! Since the online poker boom drove a horde of thrill seeking “desperate housewives” out of the kitchen and onto the web we have all seen a very impressive army of female professional poker players making their way to a lot of final tables. The most famous of all (up to now) has been Annie “The Duchess” Duke who has won almost $3,500,000 from tournament prizes alone. Her real cash earnings from poker will be way beyond that amount. However, in all of the various female success charts recently published, a new Lady Luck emerges as the front runner.
BEST FEMALE PLAYER! Often described by her male counterparts as, “The best female player on the planet”, Jennifer Harman certainly has also been handed more than her share of downright good and bad LUCK in life. Forget the battle of wits at the table, Jennifer has spent years battling a genetic kidney failure which has already required more than one transplant. Despite this obvious handicap, Jennifer is the only woman to be found regularly playing in the Bellagio’s Big Game.
THE BIG GAME! The “Big Game” is generally recognised as the benchmark for having arrived at Poker’s Peak and is regularly attended by card playing gurus like Brunson, Chip Reese, Bobby Baldwin and Gus Hansen. Just imagine: You’re waiting for a transplant. You have the whole situation complicated by the flu’ and you manage to win a pot worth $1,700,000. That’s Lady Luck and that’s Jennifer Harman. If you see her sitting at a poker table…r-u-n! Oh, I almost forgot. If you were expecting this would be a sick, withered lady connected up to tubes, think again. She’s drop-dead, Hollywood mega star gorgeous. Personally, I’d be prepared to lose to her all night and probably would anyway.
HARMAN’S HIGHLIGHTS! Jennifer recalls when she was playing as part of the “Consortium”: A team of professional players specially selected to play billionaire, poker-mad banker Andy Beal. Each professional was required to go heads-up with Beal in $100,000-$200,000 games.
$1,000,000 FREEZE OUT! The absolute highlight of her dynamic career was being given just a few hours notice that Andy Beal wanted to play her in a $1,000,000 “freeze out”. This was at the end of a week where Jennifer had been on a losing streak and had even lost a domestic game of Texas Hold’em to her novice husband. You guessed it! She beat the billionaire banker. If they invent luck-transplants, I want one.
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ALL THE ACES poker column: Tuesday, April 04, 2006: Jennifer Harman and the New Army of Female Poker Players
