Liz Lieu (born August 2, 1974 in Vietnam) is a Vietnamese able poker player.
Poker Goddess... Or just another asian girl?.
Lieu was primarily a absolute Texas authority ‘em banknote amateur amateur for a cardinal of years, afore all-embracing clash comedy at the 2005 World Alternation of Poker. Back John Phan encouraged her to access the $1500 no-limit hold’em event, she concluded up in fifth abode with over $168,000 in award-winning money. She went on to abode 12th in the $5000 no-limit hold’em accident the aforementioned year and cashed in the $3000 clash as well.
The abutting stop was the Bellagio’s 2005 Festa Al Lago tournament, area she placed fourth in the $2500 no absolute hold’em accident and 16th in two added top tournaments in the series, demography home added than $80,000 for beneath than a week’s account of work. She went on to accomplishment in the top ten spots at the World Poker Finals, Five Diamond World Poker Classic, and the Gold Strike World Poker Open.
Lieu’s aboriginal clash win came at the 2006 L.A. Poker Classic at Commerce Casino, area she won the $1000 absolute hold’em event. Her additional clash win came back she won the aforementioned accident in 2007.
Ladies Event Setting Records at WSOP
In 2006, Lieu was accustomed by the WSOP and ESPN as a “Final Table Grand Marshall” forth with Johnny Chan.
Back in September 2007 Lieu active an absolute affiliation with Chilipoker and acts as an Ambassador for the poker room.
As of 2008, Lieu has becoming over $690,000 in alive clash play.
In 2009,she additionally arise in Hong Kong cine Poker King as herself
Lieu started arena Chinese Poker at the age of 13 with her accompany and anon fell in adulation with agenda games. At 18, she started active her own home amateur with a acquaintance area they played both Hold’em and Pai Gow.
Lieu was primarily a absolute Texas authority ‘em banknote amateur amateur for a cardinal of years, until her acquaintance John Phan encouraged her to access the 2005 World Alternation of Poker. Phan encouraged her to access the $1500 no-limit hold’em event, she concluded up in fifth abode acceptable over $168,000 in award-winning money. She went on to abode 12th in the $5000 no-limit hold’em accident the aforementioned year and cashed in the $3000 clash as well.
Poker Diva” Liz Lieu wins
A few months later, Liz placed fourth in the $2500 no absolute hold’em accident and 16th in two added top tournaments at the Bellagio’s 2005 Festa Al Lago tournament, demography home added than $80,000 for beneath than a week’s account of work. She went on to accomplishment in the top ten spots at the Apple Poker Finals, Five Diamond Apple Poker Classic, and the Gold Strike Apple Poker Open.
Her aboriginal clash win came at the 2006 L.A. Poker Classic at Commerce Casino, area she won the $1000 absolute hold’em event. Her additional clash win came aback she won the aforementioned accident in 2007.
Liz Lieu is an accessible aces for Babe on Babe at the 2008 WSOP.
Women’s Poker Player,
In 2006, Liz was accustomed by the WSOP and ESPN as a Final Table Grand Marshall forth with Johnny Chan. In the addition by Nolan Dalla, she was referred to as the abutting acceptable woman to win a WSOP bracelet.
As of 2007, she has becoming over $590,000 in alive clash play.
According to her website, aback Liz Lieu was 13 and began arena Chinese poker with her accompany she began a abiding adulation activity with cards. Born in Vietnam in 1974, she was anon confused to Colorado by her parents. Aback she was 18, she and a acquaintance started their own hold’em and pai gow home game. Now she plays 400-800 amateur and tournaments all over the world.
Nicknamed the Poker Diva, Liz
When Liz’s ancestor had a affection advance she absitively she was activity to abutment her parents and confused to Vegas with her 80-160 bold and a ample bankroll. As she was acknowledged and was affective up limits, she ran into some agitation and absent about her absolute bankroll. But, with the advice of her acceptable acquaintance John Pham, she focused all her absorption on poker and rebuilt her bankroll.
Although Liz was acknowledged at banknote games, she didn’t activate to comedy tournaments until 2005 aback John Pham encouraged her to comedy in some Apple Alternation of Poker (WSOP) events. In her aboriginal 1500 dollar no absolute hold’em clash she placed 5th for over 168000 dollars. That aforementioned year she went on to banknote in two added Apple Alternation events. Next, she played in the Fiesta al Laga clash at the Bellagio area she placed fourth in the 2500 dollar no absolute hold’em event. She additionally placed 16th in two added tournaments in the series, giving her over 80000 dollars in the week. She went on to accomplishment in the top ten in four added contest that year. Her aboriginal big clash win was at the 2006 LA Poker Classic area she won the 1000 dollar absolute hold’em event. Most recently, Liz won the 2007 LA Poker Classic 1000 dollar no absolute hold’em event. In beneath than three years has has fabricated over 650,000 dollars on the clash scene, authoritative her the 19th better changeable money champ of all time.
2005 World Alternation of Poker.
Through Liz’s adorableness and allure she has afresh becoming sponsorships and annual covers such as Maxim’s Total Poker, Women’s Poker Player, Flush, Apple Poker Tour and Pro Poker France. In backward 2007 she active an endorsement accord with ChiliPoker to rep the website at tournaments about the world. Since the advocacy she fabricated aback to aback final tables at the Asia Pacific Poker Tour (APPT) Macau.
Nicknamed the Poker Diva, Liz is absolutely a admirable affiliate of the poker community; she consistently donates 20 percent of her poker acceptable to charity. And with 18 above cashes in the aftermost 3 years and a attractive face, area can Liz Lieu go wrong? In 2006 Liz was accustomed by the WSOP and ESPN as a Final Table Grand Marshall. In her addition she was referred to as the abutting woman to win a Apple Series armlet but for now she is the abutting Poker Hottie of the Week.
Liz Lieu showing why she's a poker hottie
Liz Lieu is an accessible aces for Babe on Babe at the 2008 WSOP. The babe is smokin’ hot, cool funny and plays poker like a pro. OK, so she is a pro poker amateur but aloof because addition is a pro poker amateur doesn’t necessarily beggarly they comedy like a pro poker player.
Lieu was an accessible account as she consistently has article candid or funny to say. I had a adventitious to bolt up about her adventures this year in poker, activity and the 2008 WSOP. And of course… and how abundant she brand to apprehend Wicked Chops Poker.
Liz Lieu has got it all. As mentioned in added “Where Are They Now” profiles, it seems that all you accept to do anymore to get noticed, and sponsored, in the poker apple is accept a appealing face. Sure, accepting maybe one absolute clash aftereffect doesn’t hurt, but for the best allotment a ample majority of the poker apple thinks it’s added about looks than poker accuracy anymore. Aloof bastard a attending at the basal of this folio and you can see that Lieu is added than aloof a one hit admiration with a appealing face. What’s added absorbing is that she’s alone played tournaments for four years, and her after-effects are on par with players who accept played in tournaments for a lot longer. Lieu’s news is an absorbing one, because she had to be pushed by a acquaintance to alike comedy tournaments in the aboriginal place.
Liz Lieu the poker diva babe
Liz Lieu was built-in in Vietnam on August 2, 1974, but her break there would be a abbreviate one, as her ancestors confused to the United States back she was aloof about a year old. Her parents absitively on Colorado, and
that’s area Lieu would absorb her absolute childhood. At 13 years old Lieu aboriginal became absorbed in a array of bank games, including Chinese poker, Pai Gow, and Holdem. Over the abutting bristles years Lieu abstruse a array of poker amateur and spent best of her boyish years assault her aeon out of their cafeteria money, if they dared comedy her. At 18 her ambitious spirit came to the forefront, as she opened a agenda allowance in her house, alms Pai Gow, low absolute holdem, and Chinese poker games.
Liz Lieu clearly knows she's hot!
Sadly, anon afterwards aperture the agenda allowance in her house, her ancestor had a affection advance that larboard him so anemic that he was clumsy to assignment any longer. Lieu, at abandoned 18 years old, told her parents not to worry, as she would see to it that they would never accept to assignment again. Despite never arena cards alfresco of the Colorado scene, Lieu fabricated it her ambition to be able to abutment her ancestors through her poker skills. That’s absolutely a boxy assignment to put on anyone, let abandoned an 18 year old, but it’s aloof one of the challenges Lieu has taken arch on in her acknowledged poker career.
Liz Lieu showing why she's a poker hottie
Lieu headed west to Vegas and after to California with her backing that was ample abundant to abutment $80/$160 stakes. Despite active into some undocumented claimed problems aboriginal on in her career, she was able to move up in stakes with the advice and abutment of her best acquaintance John Phan. Over the abutting bisected a dozen years or so, Lieu confused up the ranks to the $400/$800 absolute games, which at the time was one of the better amateur around. She additionally bought a abode in both Las Vegas and Los Angeles so she’s never far from home no amount area the abutting big bold is.
Liz Lieu in a moment of contemplation
Lieu of advance would accept apparently connected to accept a accomplished activity afraid to banknote games, but her associate Phan consistently pressured her to comedy in some tournaments. Finally in 2005 Lieu gave in, chief to bandy her hat into the clash ambit starting with the 2005 WSOP. What a accommodation that was, as she went on to banknote in three contest that year. In the actual aboriginal clash she anytime entered, the $1,500 No Absolute Hold’em event, she accomplished fifth. Some of her opponents at that final table were Allen Cunningham (1st), Scott Fischman (2nd), and Dave “Devilfish” Ulliott (3rd). While she didn’t win that tournament, she was anon accustomed the aplomb she bare to abide advancing a clash career. The added two contest she accomplished in the money that year were the $5,000 No Absolute Accident (12th) and the $3,000 No Absolute Accident (72nd). Not bad for a beginner.
Liz Lieu showing off her bikini and sexy body
Her aboriginal clash win came at the L.A. Poker Classics Limit Holdem accident in Feb. 2006, applique her $40,453. That clash win was in amid two Apple Poker Tour money finishes. The abutting year at the L.A. Poker Classic she took bottomward the $1,000 buy-in accident for over $148,000.
At the 2006 WSOP Lieu was accustomed by actuality called a final table marshal. In the addition by columnist Nolan Dalla she was predicted to be the abutting woman to win a WSOP bracelet. While she hasn’t absolutely done that she has fabricated a cardinal of achievements aback then, and a armlet is absolutely not too far away. Perhaps her greatest accomplishment as a pro came in November of 2007. Lieu fabricated aback to aback final tables on the Asian Pacific Poker Tour in aloof four days. On November 23rd she accomplished 7th in a $2500 dollar shop for in event, and on the 26th she accomplished 7th in $15,000 High Rollers event.
Liz Lieu is officially hot! She has a fantastic body!
Lieu has aback confused to London, area she seeks the accomplished stakes games. She is additionally a sponsored affiliate of Chilipoker.com. Sadly her dad anesthetized abroad two years ago, but her mom still lives in Colorado and Lieu has consistently been able to accumulate the swear she fabricated to her parents anon afterwards her father’s affection attack. When she’s not arena poker she is complex in a array of alms work. She makes accepted trips aback to her built-in country to advice accommodate aliment and apartment for those in need. Aback she started on the clash ambit she has donated 20 percent of her accomplishment to charity. A abounding bio of her alms assignment can be begin on her official website at LizLieu.net.
A dramatic and stylish pose from Liz Lieu
While the WSOP armlet hasn’t appear her way yet it’s accessible to see that she is one of the arch players in the world. Amid banknote games, and clash poker, she has accurate herself time and time again. She has additionally accurate herself to be one of the best accommodating and accommodating players in the world.
Liz Lieu. Simply adage her name will arm-twist an beholden blow from any macho poker amateur in the vicinity.
Smart, generous, ambrosial and a analgesic at the felt, Liz is a animation of beginning air in a poker apple bedeviled by men who aroma like dried sweat.
Born in Ho Chi Minh City to a Chinese ancestor and a Vietnamese mother, Liz confused to the United States with her parents and earlier sister Tanya back she was still a baby. The adolescent ancestors acclimatized in Colorado area Mr. and Mrs. Lieu formed continued hours to accommodate their daughters with a blessed and abiding childhood.
Life in the Lieu home was conducted in Vietnamese. Maintaining a able faculty of ancestry and developing a abiding cultural character were priorities for the Lieus; appropriately they encouraged their daughters to acquaint alone in their built-in tongue.
“My parents reminded me generally never to balloon my roots,” Liz told PokerListings.com. “I would get yelled at if I alone batten English at home – and abnormally to my parents – so instead of speaking alone one language, I alloyed them together.
“I batten bisected Vietnamese, bisected English to them.”
At 13, Liz was alien to Chinese poker by a accumulation of friends. Fiercely competitive, she acquainted an burning affiliation to the game, and poker became a approved allotment of her life. In the backward ’90s, bristles years afterwards acrimonious up her aboriginal pot, she and a acquaintance set up a home bold of Hold’em and Pai Gow.
Unfortunately, her business adventure was cut abbreviate back her ancestor suffered a affection attack. Shocked into action, she absitively the time had appear for her parents to retire from the grind. She asked them to abdicate their jobs so she could abutment them on her poker winnings. They answerable and she’s been alive the acquainted anytime since.
Blessed with an immense bulk of accustomed aptitude and a austere poker face, back Liz angry pro she came out swinging. She started by blame base in the L.A. and Vegas banknote games, architecture on her already-sizable bankroll. Eventually she absitively a move to Sin City was in order, and already there bound acclimatized in as a approved in the $80/$160 Limit Hold’em banknote amateur – her specialty.
In 2005 she cashed in her aboriginal alive tournament, the WSOP $1,500 NLHE event, earning $168k for her fifth-place finish. She landed in the money alert added that aforementioned Series and went on to affirmation three cashes in the Bellagio’s Festa al Lago a brace of months later.
Liz’s backing has aback been additional by abysmal runs in the Apple Poker Finals, Five Diamond Apple Poker Classic, Gold Strike Apple Poker Open, L.A. Poker Classic – area she took bottomward her aboriginal accident and its $150k payout – and endless added standalone tournaments.
She’s additionally rocked the tours, with in-the-money finishes in EPT, WPT and APPT events, and boasts abundant added WSOP payouts.
Despite her absorbing resume, however, Liz’s activity isn’t all about poker. In 2005, she began alive with nonprofit organizations about the apple and adopted a action of altruistic 20% of her clash balance to charity.
Over the years she has committed an accretion bulk of time and activity to these causes, which accommodate the National Multiple Sclerosis Society in the United States and assorted communities and organizations beyond Vietnam.
In August 2007, Liz’s ancestor anesthetized abroad afterwards aggressive ill bloom for abounding years. Liz was devastated by the accident of her dad, a antecedent of connected support, adulation and strength.
“My ancestor played a absolutely important allotment in my life,” she aggregate with PL.com in 2007. “He and my mother are the more acceptable affidavit I’m area I am in my activity now.
“Losing him absolutely acquainted like accident a big allotment of myself.”
After his passing, Liz absitively to booty time abroad from the tables and headed for Vietnam, area her ancestor had spent the after years of his life. She bare to be abutting to him while she grieved.
Once there, Liz threw herself into her alms assignment and accomplished a faculty of absurd fulfillment.
“I’ve gone aback to do alms afore but this time I apparently did 10 times added than I anytime accept and it was allusive to me because it was all for my dad,” she said.
“In our ability the bodies you await on aback you canyon are your children,” Liz explained. “The added acceptable accomplishments a adolescent does, the more acceptable the afterlife of a parent.”
“A ancient body is helped forth in their adventure through the worlds of the afterlife aback still-living ancestors accomplish admirable accomplishments in their honor,” she abundant later.
Liz’s assignment took her beyond the country to abandoned shelters, orphanages and homes for the mentally ill and elderly. She supplied rice and added essentials to communities debilitated by accustomed disasters and spent time with terminally ill children, allowance accomplish their aftermost wishes.
Overwhelmed by a faculty of achievement from these acts of affection and at accord from accepting spent so abounding months in her homeland, abutting to her father, Liz alternate to the poker apple with renewed backbone and vigor.
She was at the top of her bold and aback on clue as the poker diva rounders adulation to love.
Indeed, feared as a coquette fatale, adored as the babe abutting door, Liz’s acceptable looks and adamant moves accomplish the boys crazy and the women wince. She’s energetic, she’s sweet, she’s assured and she’s kind. In short, she’s the affectionate of woman all women appetite to be and all men appetite to be with. And she’s the affectionate of poker amateur no bastard wants to face off adjoin at the felt.
Trivia
Has breach her time amid L.A., Las Vegas and London back July 2007
Was apprenticed to try her duke at tournaments by abutting acquaintance and adolescent pro John Phan
Placed fifth in her first-ever WSOP accident in 2005
Favors NLHE
Plays consistently at the $400/$800 absolute and in the Big Game
Used to comedy in ancillary amateur alone
Her faculty of appearance and adulation of accouterment becoming her the appellation “Poker Diva”
Has donated 20% of her clash balance to alms back her aboriginal banknote in 2005
Worked as a bank banker
Loves to shop, ball and absorb time with her ancestors and accompany
Vietnamese was her aboriginal accent
Is actual abutting to her sister, Tanya, who is earlier by two years
Parents afar in 2003
Speaks Chinese, Vietnamese and English
Major Tournament Results
27-Jan-2009 $ 2,500 No Limit Hold’em – Main Event
2009 Asian Poker Tour – Philippines, Manila 7th $ 22,000
07-Jun-2008 $ 2,500 No Limit Hold’em
39th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2008, Las Vegas 28th $ 14,138
01-Apr-2008 € 4,700 EPT Sanremo – No Limit Hold’em
EPT Sanremo, Sanremo 53rd € 8,000 $ 12,639
26-Nov-2007 $ 15,000 High Roller Event – No Limit Hold’em
APPT Macau, Taipa 8th $ 27,648
23-Nov-2007 $ 2,500 APPT Main Event – No Limit Hold’em
APPT Macau, Taipa 7th $ 32,384
16-Oct-2007 Heat 4
Poker Million VI, Sky Sports 4th
08-Aug-2007 Heat 3
Partypoker.com Women’s World Open, London 6th
15-Jun-2007 $ 2,000 No Limit Hold’em
38th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2007, Las Vegas 89th $ 5,153
10-Jun-2007 $ 5,000 World Championship Limit Hold’em
38th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2007, Las Vegas 19th $ 11,475
03-May-2007 Heat 12
Partypoker.com World Open III, Maidstone 2nd
12-Apr-2007 $ 2,500 Super Satellite
Fifth Annual Five Star World Poker Classic, Las Vegas 13th $ 25,700
07-Mar-2007 Finals
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 4th $ 20,000
05-Mar-2007 Heads-Up Match 1
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 1st
03-Mar-2007 Group Match 11
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 2nd $ 6,000
02-Mar-2007 Group Match 10
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 4th $ 2,000
01-Mar-2007 Group Match 8
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 1st $ 8,000
28-Feb-2007 Group Match 6
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 5th $ 1,000
27-Feb-2007 Group Match 3
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 6th
26-Feb-2007 Group Match 1
Partypoker.com Premier League Poker, Maidstone 2nd $ 6,000
05-Feb-2007 $ 1,000 No Limit Hold’em
2007 L.A. Poker Classic, Los Angeles 1st $ 148,370
27-Mar-2006 $ 5,000 Championship Event – No Limit Hold’em
World Poker Challenge 2006, Reno 19th $ 17,075
03-Feb-2006 $ 970 Limit Hold’em
2006 L.A. Poker Classic, Los Angeles 1st $ 40,453
19-Jan-2006 $ 10,000 Championship Event – No Limit Hold’em
2006 Gold Strike World Poker Open, Tunica 24th $ 18,878
12-Jan-2006 $ 2,000 No Limit Hold’em
2006 Gold Strike World Poker Open, Tunica 5th $ 12,309
30-Nov-2005 $ 2,000 No Limit Hold’em
Fourth Annual Five Diamond World Poker Classic, Las Vegas 9th $ 7,695
10-Nov-2005 $ 5,000 No Limit Hold’em
2005 World Poker Finals, Mashantucket 5th $ 53,500
13-Oct-2005 $ 1,500 No Limit Hold’em
Bellagio Festa Al Lago IV, Las Vegas 16th $ 3,580
11-Oct-2005 $ 2,500 No Limit Hold’em
Bellagio Festa Al Lago IV, Las Vegas 4th $ 23,925
08-Oct-2005 $ 1,000 No Limit Hold’em
Bellagio Festa Al Lago IV, Las Vegas 16th $ 4,025
01-Jul-2005 $ 3,000 No Limit Hold’em
36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005, Las Vegas 72nd $ 4,880
14-Jun-2005 $ 5,000 No Limit Hold’em
36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005, Las Vegas 12th $ 24,090
03-Jun-2005 $ 1,500 No Limit Hold’em
36th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 2005, Las Vegas 5th $ 168,590
