Jennifer Harman

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Jennifer Harman
Jennifer Harman (2006)
Jennifer Harman (2006)
  Personal information  
Date of birth November 29, 1964
place of birth United StatesUnited States Reno
place of residence United StatesUnited States Reno
Live Poker Tournament Achievements
Highest prize money 0.$ 383,840
Total prize money $ 2,765,348
World Series of Poker
Bracelets 2
Cashes 38
Best main event no cash
  Main Event of the World Poker Tour  
title no
Cashes 15th
Last updated: January 7, 2020

Jennifer "Jen" Harman (born November 29, 1964 in Reno , Nevada ) is a professional American poker player . She is considered a cash game player, but has also made a name for herself in tournaments and is a two-time bracelet winner of the World Series of Poker . As part of the 50th edition of the World Series of Poker , Harman was named as one of two women on the list of the 50 best players in poker history in June 2019 .

Personal

Harman grew up in the city of her birth, Reno, and started playing poker at the age of eight when her father asked her to replace him at the table. When she was young, she was diagnosed with chronic kidney problems that required a kidney transplant . After high school , she studied at the University of Nevada in Reno. In 2004 Harman took a year off to have another transplant. Harman was married to the Italian poker player Marco Traniello and was close friends with Daniel Negreanu . Before she met Traniello, she was temporarily in a relationship with Doyle Brunson's son Todd Brunson as well as with Howard Lederer .

Since her kidney transplant, Harman has been promoting greater awareness of organ donation. To this end, she founded the organization CODA ( Creating Organ Donation Awareness ) .

Poker career

Career

Harman was considered the best limit player in the world and could be found regularly at the Bellagio Casino in Las Vegas playing $ 4000/8000 limit games. At the beginning of her career, Harman only played cash games and only later started playing tournament poker. In 2000 , she won her first bracelet at the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the No Limit Deuce to Seven , although she had never played that game before. At the WSOP 2002 she secured her second bracelet in Limit Hold'em and was the first woman to win two WSOP tournaments.

In total, Harman has earned over 2.5 million US dollars with poker in live tournaments, making him one of the most successful women in terms of tournament prize money . She wrote the chapter on Limit Hold'em in Doyle Brunson's Super System II . Harman was a member of Team Full Tilt and was inducted into the Poker Hall of Fame as the third woman in 2015 .

Bracelets

year Buy-in (in $ ) competition Attendees Prize money (in $)
2000 5000 No Limit Deuce to Seven Draw 030th 146,250
2002 5000 Limit Hold'em 113 212,440

Web links

Commons : Jennifer Harman  - Collection of Images

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ WSOP Reveals List of 50 Greatest Players in Poker History , pokernews.com, accessed July 22, 2019.
  2. ↑ Jennifer Harman in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed June 9, 2017.
  3. ↑ Women's All Time Money List in the Hendon Mob Poker Database, accessed February 18, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Harman, Jennifer
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Traniello, Jennifer; Harman, Jen (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American poker player
DATE OF BIRTH November 29, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Reno , Nevada , United States