• Top 5 Greatest Female Poker Players

  They are almost at the final table at the Ladies Championship at the WSOP AND they inducted three of the greatest female poker players of all time into the Poker Hall of Fame.  So this is a little bit of a ladies week.  This years class Cindy Violette, Jan Fisher, and June Field joins Barbar Enright, Susie Isaacs, Linda Johnson, and Marsha Waggoner in the HOF. 

  In honor of their accomplishments, the next few posts will be all about the ladies.  Later we’ll look at the pioneers and young guns but right now let’s start with arbitrarily ranking the top 5 current female players.

  5.   Cindy Violette – Now she concentrates of LA’s cash games but Violette, honored this year with induction to the HOF is one of the all time greatest.  She won her bracelet in 2004, has 11 final table appearances, and 28 WSOP cashes.   At one time she also got featured in playboy (not a pictorial) but that was one of the first examples of crossover success.

  4.  Clonie Gowen – Speaking of crossover success, Gowen had a pictorial in Maxim magazine that had poker players aware the cocktail waitresses weren’t the only eye-candy in a poker tournament.  With over 1.6 million in tournament winnings, most of it coming recently, Gowen is peaking at just the right time.  Her lawsuit against her former sponsor is a bit of a black eye for poker, that might get her blacklisted from the boys club, but there is no question she can bring it on the felt.  Her tournament winnings gets her a spot in the top 5 despite being the only female here without a bracelet.

  3.  Annie Duke – To most people, she’s known as the second place finisher in this year’s edition of the  Celebrity Apprentice.  She’s either loathed or loved.  She can often be seen giving free lessons on Texas Hold ‘Em Rules to the dealers and her table-mates.  Duke has 35 WSOP cashes, 13 final tables and one bracelet in 2004.  Winning in a 2k Omaha Hi/Lo event, her skills come in every discipline, with final tables in stud hi-lo, mixed event, limit hold ‘em, and a victory in the Champions Event in No Limit Hold ‘em event.

  2.  Kathy Liebert – This lady has the most tournament winnings of any female–almost 5 million.  She is a lethal tournament player and continues to play the circuit full time as many of these other females have fallen back to just play local high stakes cash games.  Liebert, like every female on this list, save Gowen, is a bracelet winner,  but unlike the other females probably doesn’t get the credit she deserves.

  1.  Jennifer Harman – she plays in the big game, enough said.  She was recruited by the big boys to play against Texas Billionaire Andy Beal (read The Professor, The Banker, and the Suicide Kingby Michael Craig) and won her first bracelet in the pro’s game Deuce to Seven Lowball.  This in a game she had never played and only had a five-minute lesson from Howard Lederer before playing.  She added a second bracelet in 2002 and has over 2.2 million in tournament earnings despite not considering herself a tournament player.  She is the mother of twins and has battled kidney problems throughout her career but still earns.

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