Jennifer Harman | Team Full Tilt Player

Some people just have poker in their DNA. Jennifer Harman, the best female player in the world and a Team Full Tilt Player , is certainly one of them. Her parents had been avidly playing poker long before she was born to them in Reno, Nevada in the year 1964. Jennifer started playing the game at merely 8 years old. It is said that whenever her father was on a losing streak in a home game, he would relinquish his seat to her, and she would unfailingly win back his chips.

Jennifer's decision to become a professional at 21 led to her estrangement from her father. The two were eventually reconciled after a tragedy in the family-- the deaths of her sister and mother due to organ trouble. This was a personal issue that would plague Jennifer herself all her life. But it was just as rough time at the tables for the Team Full Tilt Player. Her extremely aggressive, no-mercy attitude often brought her to the brink of bankroll ruin in the early years. Undaunted, Jennifer would always bounce back, displaying that same reckless nerve that so intimidates her opponents. At one particular cash game, Jennifer won a whopping $1.7 million pot.

Success has come slowly but surely for Jennifer Harman . Her first major achievement in the tournament world was in 1996 when she finished 6 th in a limit game at the World Series of Poker. She was 1 st place in the $5,000 No Limit Deuces to Seven Draw in 2000, and also won the $5,000 Limit Holdem in 2002. She also performed notably well in such events as the Professional Poker Tour, the World Series of Poker Circuit and the World Poker Tour 5-Diamond World Poker Classic. Jennifer is the only female member of the high stakes Bellagio Big Game. She is also a busy Team Full Tilt Player.

In the male-dominated world of poker, Jennifer is a standout woman. Her small frame and friendly American looks hide an indomitable fighting spirit. In a chapter she wrote for “Super System 2”, Jennifer shows how her direct, aggressive play works at the table. No less than Daniel Negreanu acknowledges she is one of the most versatile players of today.

With the advent of online poker came new opportunities for Jennifer. She is now an exclusive Team Full Tilt Player, devoting part of her time to teaching amateur gamblers through the Full Tilt Poker web site. Other distinguished members of the team include Chris Ferguson, Allen Cunningham, Juan Junda and many others.

Jennifer has long suffered from organ trouble,which had claimed the lives of her mother and sister. She has had two kidney transplants. She founded a non-profit organization that strives to inform people of the urgent need for organ donation. Toward this end, the organization hosts the charity poker event called the ‘Jen Harman Challenge.”

Despite her unique position as the most successful female player of all, Jennifer Harman shuns publicity. She prefers to live quietly with her husband and fellow player Marco Taniello and twin sons in Las Vegas.

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