Liebert Misses Date With History
Friday, 27. March 2009, 05:05:26
Kathy Liebert just could not hold on long enough to become the first woman to win a World Poker Tour open tournament. Kathy finished second to Steve Brecher in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star. Though Kathy won $550,000 she missed her date with history. It was a situation fraught with eeriness because this was the third time in a row that this event almost went to a woman but not quite.
In 2007 J.J. Liu found herself in the heads up with Ted Forrest in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event. She actually held the chip advantage with 5.3 million chips to 3.7 million chips. But Forrest converted this to a battle of the sexes and said, “No f****** way I’m letting a woman beat me at a man’s game. I’m Ted Freaking Forrest. Sure, if this was knitting class or some shit like that she might have a chance. But not poker.” After 100 hands Forrest knocked J.J. out. In 2008 Jennifer Harman batted for the women. She entered the final table short stacked but fought valiantly. Ultimately she had to settle for third place. This year it was Kathy’s turn to fall short.
This was Kathy’s sixth WPT final table. Being the leader in the heads up stage she should have made it count. Kathy is tied at Number #5 in the WPT Final Tables list with John Juanda and Scotty Nguyen. Phil Ivey leads with 8 final tables. The others above her are Daniel Negreanu, David Pham and Gus Hansen. This is extremely fine company for the woman pro known as “Poker Kat”.
Kathy has one of her own online poker sites in which she regularly blogs. Even before the Bay 101 event she had written that she needed to get fitter for the grueling WSOP schedule. She wrote, “Stamina will be important at the WSOP with long days, so those that eat healthy, exercise and sleep enough will be at a big advantage.” She is already enjoying fish and salad and other healthy food and has all but kicked the junk food habit. Kathy has performed better at WSOP than at WPT. She has won a bracelet in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout in 2004. So egged on by her recent successes and her fitness drive one can expect good things from her at WSOP 2009.
Whenever the news veers around the Poker Kat two things immediately come to mind. She financed her first poker bankroll from the money she made on the stock market. The current financial downturn not withstanding she is still probably making more money at the bourses than at the tables. The second thing is that she was one of the first and main crusaders for no smoking at the tables, and if the poker rooms are healthier today then a large share of the credit goes to her.
In 2007 J.J. Liu found herself in the heads up with Ted Forrest in the WPT Bay 101 Shooting Star event. She actually held the chip advantage with 5.3 million chips to 3.7 million chips. But Forrest converted this to a battle of the sexes and said, “No f****** way I’m letting a woman beat me at a man’s game. I’m Ted Freaking Forrest. Sure, if this was knitting class or some shit like that she might have a chance. But not poker.” After 100 hands Forrest knocked J.J. out. In 2008 Jennifer Harman batted for the women. She entered the final table short stacked but fought valiantly. Ultimately she had to settle for third place. This year it was Kathy’s turn to fall short.
This was Kathy’s sixth WPT final table. Being the leader in the heads up stage she should have made it count. Kathy is tied at Number #5 in the WPT Final Tables list with John Juanda and Scotty Nguyen. Phil Ivey leads with 8 final tables. The others above her are Daniel Negreanu, David Pham and Gus Hansen. This is extremely fine company for the woman pro known as “Poker Kat”.
Kathy has one of her own online poker sites in which she regularly blogs. Even before the Bay 101 event she had written that she needed to get fitter for the grueling WSOP schedule. She wrote, “Stamina will be important at the WSOP with long days, so those that eat healthy, exercise and sleep enough will be at a big advantage.” She is already enjoying fish and salad and other healthy food and has all but kicked the junk food habit. Kathy has performed better at WSOP than at WPT. She has won a bracelet in the $1,500 Limit Hold’em Shootout in 2004. So egged on by her recent successes and her fitness drive one can expect good things from her at WSOP 2009.
Whenever the news veers around the Poker Kat two things immediately come to mind. She financed her first poker bankroll from the money she made on the stock market. The current financial downturn not withstanding she is still probably making more money at the bourses than at the tables. The second thing is that she was one of the first and main crusaders for no smoking at the tables, and if the poker rooms are healthier today then a large share of the credit goes to her.
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