As a model, TV presenter and astrophysics graduate, there are many strings to Liv Boeree’s bow But now she can add a new one poker ace The 25-year-old brunette beat 1,240 contestants at a major tournament to win a cool £1.1millionShe paid only 500 euros to enter the European Poker Tour and scooped the life-changing sum with just a pair of fives, seeing off a tough professional rival.
Beautiful women university graduates in the UK has won more than one million pounds in a poker tournament in San Remo, Italy. Olivia Boeree, 25, became the third woman ever to win the European Poker tour (EPT) and capable of beating 1240 other players and reached 1.25 million Euros fantastic prizes.
Olivia, whose nickname is Liv, who majored in astrophysics at the University of Manchester, admitted could not believe it when the beat Jakob Carlsson, a Swedish professional poker player. “I can hardly believe it can overcome the most difficult situations in my life. EPT tournaments I’ve won, and won a fantastic prize,” he said. “Unbelievable, I am a scientist but could win the EPT tournament. It’s really a strange feeling,” she wrote on her Twitter page.
In addition to the nickname, she also has a popular name Iron Maiden. This name at Liv, because his favorite types of heavy metal music. Liv never took part in a reality show on Channel 5. While electric guitar, he sang songs of heavy metal.After leaving university, she took part in, and won, a number of TV game shows. Following one appearance, she was approached by Channel 4 and invited to audition for Carol Vorderman’s spot on Countdown.
She didn’t get the job, but her big break came when she was asked to take part in a Channel 5 programme called Ultimate Poker Showdown and was taught to play the game that has made her a millionaireSince then, she has worked as a TV presenter on poker channels, hosted an MTV heavy metal music awards programme and modelled for men’s magazines Loaded and Maxim, as well as appearing on the covers of gambling magazinesOver the past three years, she estimates she has won a total of £1.8million in tournaments across Europe, Australia and America, and is now ranked ninth in the league of top poker players.
The biggest prize ever won when the prize was given 30 000 Pounds Eupean Ladies tournament. Liv’s total revenues from various tournament that followed around 1.3 Million Ponds (USD 17 Billion). Currently only one dream Liv, EPT tournament in Monte Carlo. Prize money will be invested to purchase the property. “I will invest to buy a property in Las Vegas and London. I really like with these two cities,” he said.
She claims her best weapon against opponents is her trademark ‘Liv Stare’, which she uses to rattle their nerves.Despite her success, she still lives at home in Milstead, a small village near Sittingbourne, Kent, with her mother Elaine Cross, 54, who runs a business selling suitcases and handbags, and stepfather Tony Cross, 53, a retired police constable.
Mrs Cross said: ‘She’s not really a gambler, that’s the irony of it. She’s very sensible and extremely careful with her money.’She added that her daughter had a ‘ mathematical brain and an incredible poker face’, saying: ‘I don’t play her at Scrabble any more. She’s very competitive, she always has to win.’Miss Boeree’s father, publisher Chris Boeree, 60, said: ‘She looks a million dollars and other players must be fazed by her.’
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