Kristy Gazes

Born and raised in the LA area, Kristy Gazes learned to play poker from her father. After turning 21, Kristy and friends would regularly head to the Commerce Casino to play Pai Gow. Once there, she saw the poker tables, and remembering the lessons given by her father, she decided to give 7-stud a shot. After having developed her thirst for victory during adolescent swimming competitions, Kristy enjoyed the game, and before long was going to the Commerce several nights a week.

After over ten years of beating some of the biggest mixed cash games LA had to offer, she eventually heard the call of the elusive “No-Limit Hold 'em Tournament.” She cashed in her first WPT event, and since then has cashed over ten times in various WPT events - including becoming 2007's Ladies Night Champion. Her eleven cashes are impressive enough on their own - but are made even more so by the fact that Kristy only plays part time!

In 2003, Kristy won the World Championship of Online Poker Omaha High-Low Split, and in 2005 she defeated a daunting field full of big-name pros at the Full Tilt Championship at Wynn Las Vegas. More recently she made two final tables at the 2007 Aussie Millions, including the championship event..

Kristy has been playing poker for 16 years, and while she’s a Full Tilt pro, and widely considered to be one of the best females in the game, she’s started playing less and less of late and taken up a different gambling of sorts – the stock market. Currently Kristy only plays one to two tournaments a month, and spends her days trading options in both American and international markets. She appears to have a certain knack for it, and hopes to one day use the proceeds in order to found charitable organizations specifically intended to help and empower women.

JJ Liu

Joanne Liu took part in her first World Series of Poker event

• she got fourth place in the $3000 Limit Hold’em tournament and won more than $32,000.
• She went on to participate in over 40 major tournaments, from which she went out with nine more cash finishes at the WSOP - including two final tables in 2002 and 2003.
• In March 2005, Joanne won $90,000 after finishing 1st at the 2005 World Poker Challenge in Reno.
• In November 2005 she also made her first World Poker Tour final table and took fourth place at WPT’s $15,000 buy-in Five Diamond World Poker Classic, collecting more than $362,000.
• Joanne Liu won her first WPT title the following year - in 2006, at the WPT's Ladies Night Out event at the Legends of Poker.
• Joanne Liu`s latest entry was in March, 2007 at the Bay 101 Shooting Stars event During that time she was also pregnant, which made it even more difficult for her to compete. Even though Joanne eventually lost the final table that lasted for over 2 hours, she became the highest finishing woman ever on the World Poker Tour. For that final battle alone, she collected more than $600,000 and is the only woman to win over $1 million on a WPT circuit.
• According to Joanne Liu, The Art of War by Sun Tzu has given her inspiration and has helped her a lot in her career. She is also dedicated to introducing poker to East and Southeast Asia by conducting various poker seminars in Chinese. Besides live tournaments and online games at Full Tilt Poker, Joanne is also keen on traveling and piano.
  

Barbara Enright

Barbara Enright has been playing poker for over 30 years. Her record is unmatched. Here are her standings

• First woman to win two Ladies championships.
• First woman to win a major open event at the WSOP, $2,500 pot-limit hold'em in 1996.
• The only woman ever to make the final table at the WSOP Main Event, finishing fifth in 1995.
• The only woman to win a best all-around.
• The last female standing at Mike Sexton's “Tournament of Champions”.
• In 2007 Barbara Enright became the first woman to be inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame,
• In 2008, Inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame.
• In 2008, Barbara also won the Ladies Championship at Caesars Palace which was a WSOP Circuit event,
• 2008 Legends of Poker, Women in Poker Event.

MARSHA WAS BORN AND RAISED IN AUSTRALIA AND IT WAS THERE SHE DEVELOPED AN INTEREST IN POKER.

MARSHA STARTED PLAYING SERIOUSLY IN 1976 IN SYDNEY AND AFTER A YEAR OF PLAYING ALMOST DAILY, I MOVED TO RENO, NV.WHERE SHE SPENT THE NEXT TEN YEARS LEARNING AND PLAYING THE VARIOUS GAMES OFFERED IN THE CASINO POKER ROOMS THERE.

DURING THAT TIME SHE TOOK AN INTEREST IN TOURNAMENTS AND REALIZED SHE HAD A TALENT FOR BOTH LIVE AND TOURNAMENT PLAY. SHE IS PROUD TO HAVE MOVED TO THE TOP ESCHELON OF THE POKER WORLD AND TO BE A FOUNDING INDUCTEE IN THE WOMEN IN POKER HALL OF FAME IN 2008.  MARSHA ALSO ENJOY’S TEACHING POKER AND WATCHING HER STUDENTS PROGRESS.

Karina Jett

For Karina Jett, poker is all in the family. Her mother was a successful Seven-Card Stud player who taught her poker strategy, and her husband is fellow Full Tilt Poker pro Chip Jett, one of the world's foremost tournament players. It's no wonder then that Karina has developed into one of the best female players in the game.

• With lifetime tournament winnings of more than $129,000,
• Karina has booked fourth-place finishes in the 2003 WSOP $1K Ladies Hold 'em Stud tournament
• The 2004 WSOP $1K Ladies Limit Hold 'em event.
• She also made the final table in Poker Royale: Battle of the Sexes,
• Took part in a history-making finish at The London Open when she and Chip became the first husband and wife to make the final table in a major tournament.

Susie Issacs

Susie Isaacs is best known for

• being the first woman to win the World Series of Poker ladies championship back-to-back in 1996 and 1997. In 1998,
• Placed 10th in the World Series of Poker $10,000 event vying for the one million dollar first prize.
• Isaacs became the second woman in history to accomplish such an outstanding finish. 
• She holds the record for most times in the money at the World Series of Poker ladies event.
• 2008 Fall Classic Golden Nugget Ladies Championship,
• Winner Championship at the 2008 Wildhorse Poker Round-Up .
• Her high achievements in competitive poker and the poker industry resulted in her being one of only four women in the world to be inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2008.  
• In the spring of 2008,Susie was inducted into the Seniors Poker Hall of Fame.
• Isaacs has written poker related articles and stories under the title of “Chip Chatter” that have appeared in a variety of magazines since 1988.
• In 1999 Isaacs had her first book published. Entitled MsPoker: Up Close and Personal.
• Her newer books are 1,000 Best Poker Strategies and Secrets, MsPoker: I’m Not Bluffing, a two-book set, and Queens Can Beat Kings.
• Her latest literary offering is her first novel titled, White Knight, Black Nights, Poker is Skill, Life is the Gamble.

Lisa Adams

Lisa Adams is a business woman, author, poker player, and is actively involved in all aspect of the High Heels Poker Tour Academy.

• In 2006, she entered the WSOP Ladies Circuit Event in Tunica, MS and took first place in a field of 300 players.
• In 2007, she took first place in the Inaugural Wynn Classic winning over $100,000 in a mixed field of 680 players. She, also, cashed the 2007 summer WSOP Shootout Event.
• Recently written a book call “Beating the Odds: A Woman’s Guide to Becoming a Champion Player”.