Jennifer Harman
Born and raised in Reno, Nevada and a poker player since the age of 8, Jennifer Harman has risen through the ranks to become one of the most respected women in professional poker.
Jennifer Harman started by observing her father in his regular home games until the night he was faring so poorly he asked her to sit in for him. She turned his luck around and set herself on a course that’s served her greatly through to today. Sadly (and ironically), her decision to go professional kept her and her father from speaking to one another for years before they finally, thankfully, reconciled.
Her first World Series of Poker win occurred in 2000 when she beat both Steve Zolotov and Lyle Berman at the No Limt Deuce to Seven Lowball tournament, and took home the $146,250 grand prize. Incredibly, it was the first time she’d ever played that particular game. It was a 5-minute lesson on the game from poker pro “The Professor” Howard Lederer that gave her all she needed to win.
She earned her 2nd World Series of Poker bracelet at the 2002 $5,000 Limit Hold’Em tournament, and went home $212,440 richer. This made her the only woman to ever win 2 bracelets in World Series of Poker open events. Her other notable tournament appearances incude finishing 2nd in the World Series of Poker Circuit Championship at the Rio, finishing 5th in the first event ever of the Professional Poker Tour, and finishing 4th in the World Poker Tour 5-Diamond Classic.
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In 2004 she had to take a break from competition to undergo a kidney transplant (her second). Her medical challenges led Jennifer Harman to found a non-profit organization called Creating Organ Donation Awareness (CODA), dedicated to raising funds and awareness for people in need of organ transplants.
A few of the men of professional poker have found their way at times into Jennifer Harman’s heart, namely Howard Lederer and Todd Brunson, both of whom she dated at one time, and Marco Traniello, to whom she now is married.
Harman was also part of “The Corporation” a group of poker pros who pooled their money and pitted their skills one by one in heads-up matches against billionaire Andy Beal. Jennifer took $9 million of Beal’s money away for her team.
Jennifer Harman also penned a chapter in the revered poker tome Super System II on the subjectof Limit Hold’em. She’s made numerous television and radio appearances in the name of poker on such stations as NPR, the Discovery Channel, and ESPN and such shows as Primetime Live and the Ellen DeGeneres Show. She can currently be seen as a featured player in NBC’s Poker After Dark and GSN’s High Stakes Poker.
An avid cash game player, Jennifer Harman can most often be found at the Bellagio Casino competing in the highest limit games going. She is the only female player to be a regular at the Bellagio’s famed $4,000-$8,000 “Big Game” (generally attending 4 nights a week) - alongside fellow poker superstars Doyle Brunson, Phil Ivey, Chip Reese, and Johnny Chan. Often cited as the best female poker player in the world (including by fellow poker star Barry Greenstein), Jennifer Harman also competes online at FullTilt.com as part of Team Full Tilt. So far, as of 2007, Jennifer Harman has amassed over $1.7 million in live tournament winnings.
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