Top 10 Hottest Female Poker Players
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August 24, 2024Decades ago, it was considered unladylike for women to sit at a casino oval table and play poker. However, this idea did not last long, thanks to the brave women who acted against this stereotype and became great professional poker players. Thanks to those women, today, there are thousands of female poker players, and the game is not dominated by males anymore. To celebrate their efforts, we put together a list of the top 10 female poker players(in no particular order), who are not only beautiful but are great players.
1. Maria Ho
As shown in the picture, Maria is one of the most recognizable female poker players in the world. The snapshot is the main page of her official website, where you can find every detail about her. She was born in Taipei. But now lives in the US as an American citizen. She is a successful poker player and successful in everything she does. When she is off the poker table, fans can follow her on television as a commentator, host, and even competitor in shows like American Idol and the Emmy-winning The Amazing Race. She has over $4.4 million in poker tournament earnings. Maria is indeed one of the leading faces among female poker players, as she is among the top-ranked female players in the world. She also happened to be beautiful and sexy!!
Maria Ho Trivia | |
Total live earnings |
$5,253,919
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WSOP Earnings | $1,736,064 |
Best Live Cash | $540,020 |
Country | USA |
Special achievements | – A poker TV broadcast team hired her as the first female in history to be the primary strategic commentator
– Ambassador of StormX – 80 WSOP cashes -8 Final Tables in WSOP cash games |
2. Melika Razavi
Melika or Meli Razavi is an Iranian professional poker player. However, this is not the only field in which she is a star. Melika is an Iranian-South African Beauty queen, magician, model, global fitness, and miss power woman. Melika was born in Iran and moved to South Africa with her mother at the age of 15. She was introduced to the game of poker at the age of 9. Although Meli primarily plays cash games, she started to play poker tournaments at the age of 23. Barcelona, May 2017 was her first live money finish at a major tournament. Later, Melika participated in the Merit Poker Top Guns Main Event in Cyprus in early March 2018, where she finished tenth for more than $ 10,000. Not long after, in mid-September 2018, she played in a Merit Gangsters Poker Cup inaugural tournament, finished fifth, and received over $55,000. She did not stop there, though.
In early May 2019, she played at the Main Event of the European Poker Tour in Monte-Carlo, where she finished 17th as the best woman participating in the event and won over 35,000 euros. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the WSOP Online took place on GGPoker in early September 2020. Melika participated in the event under the nickname Melirazavii. She beat 1918 other players and won a bracelet of the bounty tournament plus $240,000. Our girl keeps showing up at the tournaments! In September 2022, Razavi came to the triton Poker Series in Kyrenia, Northern Cyprus, and took home $75,000 in winnings.
Melika Razavi is very active in every field of her passion. She is Miss Global Fitness 2016 and Miss Power Woman 2017. Her fans are looking forward to seeing her at the upcoming poker tournaments.
read more :Who is Melika Razavi, The Poker Beauty Queen of Our Time?
Melika Razavi Trivia | |
Nickname | Meli Razavi |
Total live earnings | $464,635 |
WSOP Earnings | $321,927 |
Best Live Cash | $75,000 |
Country | Iran |
Residence | Cape Town |
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3. Johanna Hupfer
Johanna’s opponents find her blue eyes and glowing smile a distraction at the poker table. However, they know she is a great player capable of making her own luck. She is a happily married young poker player and a mother of two. Johanna and Alex Stark are a poker couple! They met in 2008 and got married in 2011. She is successful in everything she does, like playing poker, parenting, or modeling.
Johanna Hupfer Trivia | |
Total live earnings | $27,587 |
WSOP | $1,830 in winnings |
Best Live Cash | $6,889 |
Country | Germany |
4. Liv Boeree
Liv had a dream to become a host of television game shows. However, she was chosen as a participant to play on a reality TV show called Ultimatepoker.com Showdown aired in the autumn of 2005. Our British young girl had the chance to be coached by the big names in poker and professional poker players, including Phil Hellmuth, Dave Ulliott, and Annie Duke. The show aimed to train beginners and turn them into professional poker players and she was pretty successful in that. She became a professional female poker player and earned over a thousand dollars in live poker tournaments. However, the hot and sexy Live Boeree is in demand in the hosting profession and modeling industry, where she is happy to be. Currently, she is a science communicator, television presenter, and model.
You may be wondering why she is a science communicator. Because she studied at the University of Manchester and received a First Class Honours degree in Physics with Astrophysics. This was the time she played lead guitar in the heavy metal band Dissonance. Her fans would like to see her back at the card table soon.
Her last major poker event appearance was the 53th WSOP, where she finished 60th in the event #87($5,000 8-Handed No-Limit Hold’em) and won $8,843.
Liv Boeree Trivia | |
Nickname | Iron Maiden |
Total live earnings | $3,861,839 |
WSOP | 1 bracelet and $323,042 total earnings |
Best Live Cash | $1,698,300 |
WPT | $40,855 in winnings |
European Poker Tour | Over $1,800,000 |
Country | United Kingdom |
DOB | 18 July 1984 |
5. Lisa Hamilton
Lisa is an American female poker player with Asian roots. One of her biggest nights was on March 4th, 2016, at Bally’s Las Vegas, where she beat all but one poker player and took home $200,310. Although she was not a strong favorite that night, she went heads-up against Jason Wheeler. She did not beat him, but that night was just the beginning for our young female poker player. She has several considerable finishes in her poker resume, including the 2009 Ladies No-Limit Hold ‘em World Championship, where she won and took home $1,000.
As of 2018, Lisa Hamilton’s total live tournament winnings exceed $1,281,900. Lisa’s latest poker achievement was $47,160 earning from the 2023 WSOP event #88, where she finished 10th.
Lisa Hamilton Trivia | |
Total live earnings | $1,401,883 |
WSOP | 1 bracelet and $385,465 total earnings |
WPT(World Poker Tour) | $112,657 in winnings |
Country | United States |
6. Sandra Naujoks
Unlike Meli Razavi, Sandra did not get into the game at a young age. She was a supermodel turned professional poker player. Her deep blue eyes and her luscious lips can melt players at the table and make them forget that she is robbing their bankroll😜! Sandra’s first professional appearance in poker was in 2008 when she made the poker world notice her.
The German top-model finished no worse than 10th place in her first five poker tournaments. Sandra had two big finishes in her first five tournaments. Sandra’s biggest win was in 2009 when she finished first at Pokerstars.com EPT German Open and took home more than 1 million dollars. Sandra has not been actively playing professional poker after her last appearance in 2011 WSOP.
Sandra Naujoks Trivia | |
Nickname | Black Mamba |
Total live earnings | $1,789,238 |
Best Live Cash | $1,159,541 |
European Poker Tour | 1 championship plus over $1,250,000 in winnings |
Country | Germany |
Residence | Berlin |
7. Tiffany Michelle
Tiffany is a poker star but not only at the table. She produces and presents many things, including Poker, Gaming, Casino, and eSports.
Tiffany Michelle is a poker record-breaker, TV & Live host, and writer/speaker. She was crowned one of Maxim’s Top 20 Hottest Celebrity Poker Players and broke the poker record in the 2008 WSOP, where she was the last woman remaining in the $10,000 Main Event. Tiffany finished in 17th place in a 6,844 players’ pool and took home $334,534. This was record-breaking because it was the largest field ever beaten by a female professional player in live poker tournament history. She is also known for her appearance in The Amazing Race season 15 and Worst Cooks in America season 3.
Poker never stops for Tiffanny! She competed in the 54th WSOP 2023 and earned $3,337 finishing 56th in $1,000 LADIES No-Limit Hold’em Championship event.
Tiffany Michelle Trivia | |
DOB | June 4, 1984 |
Total live earnings | $411,407 |
WSOP Earnings | $344,204 |
Best Live Cash | $334,534 |
Country | USA |
Residence | LA |
read more : Tiffany Michelle Biography , Net worth and Poker Winnings
8. Athena Cate
It has been a while that we have not seen her much at poker tables, but Athena Cate is well known for her presence in Live at the Bike. LATB aired in 2005 and was the first regularly scheduled stream of a real, live poker cash game. The show was directly streamed from the floor of Bicycle Hotel and Casino. Poker professionals, stars, and regular grinders participated and competed for big pots in this show. Live at the Bike show soon became a pillar in the poker content industry.
9. Kara Scott
As shown in the picture from her Instagram page, Kara is a popular Canadian-British TV personality, journalist, and poker player. Although she was born in Alberta, Canada, in 1999, she moved to the UK and worked in UK media until 2009. In 2009, Kara moved to Santa Barbara, California. Currently, she is living in Padova, Italy. Our poker star loves traveling! While living in Canada, she became a sports presenter and producer. She loves presenting at poker events more than playing at the tables. She is an ambassador for the 888poker brand and hosts 888poker News.
Kara has been absent from the professional world of poker since 2014 when she participated in the 45th WSOP $1,000 No-Limit Hold’em event, finished 181th , and earned $1,872.
Kara Scott Trivia | |
Nicknames | Great Scott, Kara Scott Chad |
Total live earnings | $664,795 |
WSOP Earnings | $107,807 |
Best Live Cash | $413,612 |
Country | Canada |
Residence | USA-Italy |
10. Fatima Moreira de Melo
Fatima has been successful in every field she has been working in. For this reason To say she is an accomplished female would be an understatement! The former Dutch field hockey player is also a professional poker player descended from a Portuguese family. While playing hockey, she played in 191 international matches for the Dutch national team and scored 30 times. In 2008, she won an Olympic gold medal with the Dutch national team while playing at the Summer Olympics in Beijing. This is not the end, yet!
She studied at Erasmus University Rotterdam and earned an LL.M. degree🤯. Moreover, she presented multiple TV programs on local and national TV stations. Fatima also has a career as a singer. Regarding her achievements in the poker world, she is a member of Team PokerStars: Sportstars. Her fans can find her playing tournaments on the PokerStars online poker card room. Although she left her role as Sporting Icon Pro in early 2020, she still calls herself an athlete.
Fatima has stopped playing at major professional poker tournaments and events since late 2019.
Kara Scott Trivia | |
Nickname | FatimaDeMelo |
DOB | 4 July 1978 |
Total live earnings | $577,274 |
Best Live Cash | $95,750 |
Country | Netherlands |
Residence | Rotterdam |
To Sum It Up
Thanks to our hottest female poker players, today, poker tables are no longer dominated by men. Although we introduced the top most beautiful female poker players, their beauty is not the secret ingredient to their winnings. They are talented, smart, and know how to play the game like a pro. So, next time you get mesmerized by the beauty of a female poker player at the table, remember that she has much more to offer than her lips or body!