PokerStars.com signed long time tournament veteran Kathy Liebert to represent them at tonight’s 2008 WSOP Event #1 final table. Just moments ago she finished in third place, pocketing a nice $306,640 payday, in this $10K buy-in Pot Limit Texas Hold’em event. Her performance will provide PokerStars plenty of television coverage when the final table airs on ESPN next fall.
Kathy Liebert is a veteran poker tournament professional who has been active on the circuit since the mid 90’s. She has over four million dollars in career tournament winnings with the largest having come in 2002 when she took down the first Party Poker Million for, surprise, a cool million.
In 2004 Liebert won her first (and to date only) WSOP bracelet in a $1,500 Texas Hold’em shoot out event. She’s had many other big tournament cashes including a $450,000 payday for her third place finish at the 2005 WPT Borgata Poker Open. She’s appeared numerous times on televised poker shows featuring poker celebrities including “Poker Royale: Battle of the Sexes” which she happened to win.
Liebert first got her poker career started as a prop player in Colorado, while she also worked for the well known investment company Dun and Bradstreet. Her story mimics that of many online poker props that get started propping for small online poker rooms part time while working a full time job and then eventually found themselves rolled enough to venture into the world of world of high stakes live poker. The major different with Kathy Liebert is her run as a poker prop was well before internet poker and her success in the world of live high stakes poker games came just before the height of the poker boom.
Kathly Liebert will likely find herself in the market, or at least a candidate, for a long term endorsement deal soon as she’s already the first woman to have ever won a million dollar prize in a poker tournament and is the all time winningest female tournament player in poker history. As she continues to rack up final tables and six-figure cashes the exposure value she could offer to an online poker site continues to rise.
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[...] Kathy Liebert signed a one night deal to represent PokerStars at this event. Liebert her start as a poker player in the mid 1990’s when she was a prop player at a live card room in Colorado. In 2002 she won the inaugural Party Millions event becoming the first female player to ever cash for a million dollars in a live poker tournament. She has had numerous other successes and has 4.4 millon dollars in career tournament winnings making her the winningest female player in poker tournament history. Libert, like Mike Sexton, found herself close but not close enough to winning a second WSOP bracelet. On hand #152 of the final table she founder herself in a 3 way all in situation holding Pocket sixes. [...]
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