Liv Boeree, a gorgeous 25 year old model from the UK, recently made the news when she added an EPT £1 million pound win to her string of achievements, which includes a degree in astrophysics and the title for the European Ladies Poker Championship.
Liv participated in the EPT and beat 1,240 contestants in the poker tourneys to finally take her place in the finals. This episode of the EPT took place in San Remo, Italy and featured players from over 40 different countries.
The final event saw Boeree go head to head with Swedish poker professional whom she ousted from the game with a pair of fives, proving that she was not to be underestimated. Liv who has a degree in astrophysics from Manchester University used her smarts to snag £1 million pounds in the EPT. When asked about her success at the poker table, Boeree claimed that mathematics and logic skills helped her in playing poker. Boeree will go on to play in thus Sunday’s EPT grand final to vie for the £2.2 million pounds that is at stake at the championship event which will take place in Monte Carlo.
“Winning a major event is exactly what I’ve been working towards. I have been working very hard on my game but I can’t believe I have won. I’m over the moon, absolutely over the moon”, said Liv Boeree.
Liv has done the UK proud with her win and plans to use the money to buy real estate in Vegas and one cannot help but wonder if she will perhaps continue using her remarkable smarts and lucky streak to win a few more tournaments in Sin City.
Olivia or “Liv” as she calls herself is the ultimate combination of beauty, brains and a poker face and is the third woman in the history of poker to win a million pounds in the EPT. The model/poker player took in a total of £1,087,411 when she won the European Poker Tour. Liv has garnered the nickname the Iron Maiden in poker circles on account of her love for heavy metal music.
Boeree has been playing poker since she was 4 years old and has more experience in the game than many of the players who competed at the EPT. She took up playing poker seriously after she competed in a reality TV show about poker which aired on Channel Five.