It’s good to know that Cindy Margolis and Pamela Anderson’s attempt to be poker are done and over with.

God forbid we lose the real poker gals Cindy Violette, Jennifer Tilly and Evelyn Ng, Jennifer Harman, Connie Gowen and Annie Duke. Whoever told these most downloadable Internet celebrities that poker is the next road to take was clearly just out to collect from a chunk of the online poker pot. But players knew better than to throw their money on some scantily clad ladies in guise of a love for Texas hold’em.

In poker, skills at the felt table is what counts. The good looks only adds as bonus shimmer to your star.

Looking like an aspiring Asian model or actress, Liz Lieu may fail to intimidate poker players at first. But when she gets down to business of checking, raising and bluffing, the attention quickly leaves her looks and focuses on overcoming her skills.

Yes, Liz is one of the fastest rising poker tournament players today. She’s fierce when playing her favorite No Limit Texas Holdem game,

But one can’t help get smitten by her Playboy model body and Sixteen magazine charm. Beauty and aggressive poker play does exist and go hand in hand, goes a quote from her own personal site.

If you’ve played poker with Liz, you won’t argue with this bold statement.

She’s disarmingly attractive and stylish, with her trademark blonde streaks, manicured nails, even smiling sweetly while knocking player after player out of tournaments. In a short time, she has become a fashon icon and an image model for poker girl power.

After all, the girl has been playing the game for over 12 years now. Although she only decided to become a professional poker player four years ago when her friend, John Phan, urged her to stray from the usual cash games and try tournament poker. She heeds the advice and it pays off.

At last year’s World Series of Poker no-limit hold’em event, Liz went out in 5th place and raked in $168,590 cash prize. That’s when our new poker femme fatale really got hooked into playing tournament games. As of today’s count she has accumulated $404,895 in total winnings.

Not all of those greens go to her sleek and sexy photo shoots (check out her site to see what I mean), part of her earnings go to charity especially in her native Vietnam. And still some part of it, she uses to support her parents.

Owww, a pretty girl with a golden heart. Just the type you bring home to Momma.

If you indeed capture this beauty’s heart, make sure you don’t settle your differences through a game of strip poker. ‘Coz she’s goin’ to take all your possessions in no time…

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