Jennifer Harman is a professional poker player from the United States. She is the best female poker player in the world, and many people find her one of the best players around, regardless of gender.
Born and raised in Reno, Nevada, Harman started playing poker at the age of eight years. They learned the rules from his mother and often sit in when his father played cards with friends.
Jennifer was suffering from kidney problems as a child at the endbring a life-saving kidney transplant. Fortunately, he made it through surgery and has undergone a complete recovery. However, this would return to medical problems later in life by Jennifer plague.
After graduating from high school, Jennifer has a job as a waitress in a casino. This allowed to close the game of poker, and she practiced at every opportunity. He enrolled at the University of Nevada and graduated in biology, with its prices in pokerhelp pay his way.
After graduation, Jennifer decided to poker full time instead of going in his field.
This causes tension in his personal life and her father unknown. Fortunately, it was finally able to convince him that he could make a comfortable income from playing the game he loved, and the two reconciled after years of little or no contact.
In 2000, Jennifer won her first bracelet in the World Series of Poker No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball.What made the victory even more impressive was that she had never played the game before entering the tournament.
In 2002 he won his second bracelet in the $ 5K Limit Hold'em, earning her the only woman who comes twice WSOP bracelets in open events (meaning events open to men and women). She ranks third all-time list of women and 19 money finishes in WSOP cash.
In 2004, Jennifer took a year off from poker After learning that sherequire another transplant. His niece has a healthy kidney, and Jennifer made it through the surgery again.
Since his return in the game, put money in the Five-Diamond World Poker Classic World Poker Tour, Professional Poker Tour and the WSOP Circuit Championship.
She is also a writer, author of the chapter on Limit Hold'em Doyle Brunson's Super System II by many as the bible of poker.
Jennifer is verypassionate to the topic of organ donation, who recently founded CODA (creation of organs Awareness), a group dedicated to raising money and awareness.
She is married to stylist Marco Traniello and the couple has four dogs. She is close friends with poker pro Daniel Negreanu and Todd Brunson poker players already and Howard Lederer.
If Harman is not in the tournament circuit, can be found playing high-stakes cash game at the BellagioCasino runs on his trampoline, playing with his dogs, or hanging with his friends.
Since 2006, his total live tournament prize money exceeded $ 1,600,000.
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