• Name: Jennifer Harman
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Biography:

At 5 feet 2 inches tall and barely 100 pounds, Jennifer isn’t exactly the most intimidating poker player you’ll ever come across, but she is one of the best poker players in the world and makes up to a million dollars on a good year.

Harman says she's a perfectionist when it comes to poker and the hard part for her is realizing that it's a game that you can never play perfectly. She first fell in love with the game of poker at the age of 8 when her dad and his friends used to play at their house, and she always watched.

Sometimes when he was losing two or three hundred, he’d put her in the game to get him even - and she usually did. Since then she has climbed all the way to the top of what traditionally has been a man's world. She says: "It probably helps me to be a woman. In general, most men don't think women can play. So, what often happens is that they try to run over me. They bluff their money off to me. I guess they see me as a meek little girl and think that I'm easily bluffed. I'm not!" When asked if it is difficult being successful in a man's world, she says: "Kind of. I wouldn't say it's difficult, really, but earning respect as a player and being a woman at the same time probably is. That's not really important to me, though. What's important to me is to be respected by my husband and my close friends. I couldn't care less if my opponents don’t respect my play. In fact, that could only help me in the long run."

The road to becoming a professional poker player is never an easy one and she had obstacles to overcome just like many players before her. In 1993, it appeared that Jennifer would possibly quit playing professionally, but she persevered and the whole experience made her that much stronger. "I had one losing year in poker back in 1993. It was a tough time for me. My life was going through some changes, and I guess they affected my focus at the poker table. I didn’t go totally broke, but close enough. I was playing $50-$100 hold’em at the Mirage at the time, so just to be safe, I borrowed $50,000 from a friend so that I had an adequate bankroll to continue playing in that game. I started to do much better after that, and paid the loan off pretty quickly. Since then, I haven’t had to worry much about my bankroll. I’ve always tried to stick to limits I can afford. "

She didn’t officially start playing poker for a living until she was about 21. Before that, she worked odd jobs, mostly as a cocktail waitress. She loved poker so she decided to try to started playing for a living. Back then, she played mostly $10-$20, and a little later moved up to $20-$40 and $30-$60. She spent about seven years playing $20-$40, and no higher than $50-$100, then about another eight years playing from $75-$150 to $200-$400. She would build her bankroll and take shots at the bigger games and eventually move up to $3,000-$6,000 games. When she would lose, she would go back down in limits. It was a cycle that lasted a long time, but was worth it in the end. Even though poker has been her only source of income since she was 21, she has been investing her money the whole time and this has helped her bankroll.

When she isn't playing poker she likes to stay home and playing with her dogs as well as going to movies and hang out with friends. She is married and her husband also plays poker sometimes, which has made it easier on her, she says: "I think the fact that he plays sometimes now makes things easier on me. Sometimes when I have a big loss, I come home in a bad mood and can be really cranky. I think now that Marco plays poker sometimes, too, he knows how I feel and lets me vent my frustration without taking anything personal. Poker can be very frustrating, and I wear my emotions on my sleeves, but Marco has been extremely supportive of my career."

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