Hottest Female Poker Players in 2026

The hottest female poker player in 2026 is Liv Boeree, followed by Maria Ho, Kristen Foxen, Vanessa Rousso, and Alexandra Botez. The British EPT champion and WSOP bracelet winner tops virtually every beauty ranking in poker.

The 20 most beautiful women in poker are not just faces at the table. They are bracelet winners, broadcasters, and streamers with real credentials. For career stats, earnings and the full roster of 49 players, see our best female poker players page.

Top 20 Hottest Women in Poker: Full Rankings

Here are the 20 hottest female poker players on our 2026 list, ranked by a combination of poker credentials, social media presence, competitor list frequency, and current relevance. The profiles follow below.

Hot Female Poker Players: The Established Stars

These six players generate the most search interest and media attention in the poker world today. All have serious credentials, mainstream crossover appeal, and consistently rank at the top of hot poker players lists across poker publications.

1. Liv Boeree

Liv Boeree is the only woman in poker to hold both an EPT title and a WSOP bracelet, and she tops virtually every beauty ranking in the game. The British astrophysics graduate came out of retirement at WSOP Paradise in December 2024 and finished fourth in the Super Main Event, the biggest single result by a woman in live poker history. She married Igor Kurganov at Burning Man in September 2025 and runs a science YouTube channel on game theory and decision-making.

For her full stats, see Liv Boeree's career profile.

2. Maria Ho

Maria Ho is the most followed dedicated female poker pro on Instagram at roughly 139,000 followers, and one of the most visible faces in the game as a PokerGO and WSOP broadcaster. The Women in Poker Hall of Famer has raced on The Amazing Race, won Game of Gold, and holds the record for WSOP Main Event Last Woman Standing finishes. Born in Taipei and raised in California, her sister Judy Ho is a well-known television psychologist.

For the full breakdown, see Maria Ho's career and net worth.

3. Kristen Foxen

Kristen Foxen is the highest-earning woman in poker history and the only player on this list with six WSOP bracelets. She and husband Alex Foxen are poker's most dominant active couple, both winning events at the 2026 U.S. Poker Open. Before the live circuit she was an online grinder known as “krissyb24”, one of the few women to reach Supernova Elite on PokerStars.

For her full stats, see Kristen Foxen's career profile and net worth.

4. Vanessa Rousso

Vanessa Rousso, “Lady Maverick,” finished third on Big Brother 17, has featured in Maxim and GQ, and DJs as one half of N1TEL1TE. She was a Team PokerStars Pro for nine years and won the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final High Roller in 2009. A Duke graduate who finished her degree in two and a half years and then passed the Florida Bar, she still appears on virtually every competitor's list of the hottest women in poker despite stepping back from tournaments in 2017.

5. Kara Scott

Kara Scott is one of poker's pioneering female broadcasters, with 15 years hosting and reporting for the WSOP, WPT and PokerGO. The Canadian-British presenter came within a heads-up match of winning the Irish Poker Open in 2009 and was an 888poker ambassador for seven years. She lives in Ljubljana with her husband, Italian pro Giovanni Rizzo, and hosts the Heart of Poker podcast.

6. Kelly Minkin (Kelly Lucas)

Kelly Minkin, now Kelly Lucas, is the only woman named WSOP Main Event Last Woman Standing twice. She is a practising Arizona attorney in medical-malpractice defence and plays poker alongside the day job. She married former professional basketball player Landen Lucas in 2023, and a clip of her slowrolling Phil Hellmuth went viral in July 2025.

Sexiest Poker Players: The New Generation

These eight players have surged in visibility over the past two years through streaming, content creation, and viral moments. They are the names generating the most new search interest heading into the second half of 2026.

7. Alexandra Botez

Alexandra Botez brought more than 1.3 million Twitch followers with her when she crossed from chess to poker. The Woman FIDE Master and Stanford graduate runs BotezLive with her sister Andrea and signed with ClubWPT Gold in May 2025. Her breakout poker moment came on Hustler Casino Live in 2022, when she finished as the biggest winner of the night ahead of MrBeast, Phil Hellmuth, and Tom Dwan.

For her background, see Alexandra Botez's bio and net worth.

8. Sashimi (Yuuki Kaida)

Sashimi, real name Yuuki Kaida, is the most frequent female regular on Hustler Casino Live with more than 180 appearances and around 91,000 Instagram followers. The Japanese cash game player and BC.GAME ambassador plays no tournaments, so her name never appears on Hendon Mob. Her prosthetic-bodysuit prank on a Max Pain Monday stream in January 2023 remains one of HCL's most viral moments.

For more, see Sashimi's full profile.

9. Robbi Jade Lew

Robbi Jade Lew became the most searched woman in poker after the J4 hand on Hustler Casino Live in September 2022, when she called Garrett Adelstein's all-in with jack-four and won. An independent investigation found no evidence of cheating and she passed a polygraph. A former biopharma executive born in Saudi Arabia, she appeared on USA Network's “The Anonymous” in 2024 and still plays cash games and tournaments.

For the full story, see Robbi Jade Lew's full profile and controversy breakdown.

10. Qiyu Zhou (Nemo)

Qiyu “Nemo” Zhou is a chess Woman Grandmaster with nearly 994,000 Instagram followers, 599,000 YouTube subscribers, and 371,000 on Twitch. Born in China and raised across France, Finland, and Canada, she was the first competitive chess player signed by an esports organisation. Her poker career is still young, headlined by winning the 2023 Enclave Celebrity Poker Invitational, and she got engaged in July 2025.

What connects the players in this section is momentum. Whether through viral hands, chess crossovers, or livestream fame, all eight have built their poker profiles within the last three to four years. Their search interest is trending upward heading into WSOP season.

11. Andrijana Gligoric

Andrijana “Lija” Gligoric is GGPoker's Cash Game Queen, streaming six to seven days a week from Malta with around 62,000 Instagram followers. The Serbian former electrical engineering student joined GGPoker as an ambassador at 23 and completed a $500-to-$10,000 bankroll challenge on stream in three months. She is the single most searched player name bringing readers to this page.

12. Xuan Liu

Xuan Liu is the second most followed dedicated female poker pro on Instagram at around 79,000, and her Reels regularly pass 400,000 plays. In May 2025 she became the first woman to win a Triton Poker title, capping one of the most dramatic comebacks in women's poker after six years away. Born in Tianjin and raised in Toronto, she is also the only woman to reach a PCA Main Event final table.

For her full stats, see Xuan Liu's career profile and net worth.

13. Marle Spragg (Marle Cordeiro)

Marle Spragg, formerly Marle Cordeiro, is a PokerStars content creator and the 2024 Global Poker Award winner for Best X/Twitter Personality. She first went viral in 2018 with a “Looking for a poker pro boyfriend” vlog and married PokerStars streamer Ben “Spraggy” Spragg in Las Vegas in 2021. Born near Boston, she now lives in London and posts under both names.

14. Samantha Abernathy

Samantha Abernathy is an artist, photographer, and SCAD graduate who became a WSOP Thrill Team member and 888poker ambassador after a third-place finish at the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event. She once beat Dan Bilzerian to a 320-mile Las Vegas to Los Angeles bike ride and collected a $10,000 bet for it. She became a mother in 2023 and now plays a lighter schedule.

For her full profile, see Samantha Abernathy's career stats and bio.

Best Looking Poker Players From Around the World

These six players represent poker's global reach. From Tokyo to São Paulo to Kyiv, they are among the most searched and most visible women in their regional poker scenes, and each has made an impact on the international stage.

15. Shiina Okamoto

Shiina Okamoto is the face of Japan's poker boom and the first player to win back-to-back WSOP Ladies Championships, in 2024 and 2025. The former architect signed with GTO Wizard in 2025 and added the EPT Barcelona Women's Event the same summer. Her analytical style has made her a role model for a new generation of Japanese players.

For her full stats, see Shiina Okamoto's career profile.

16. Nikita Luther

Nikita Luther is the first Indian woman to win a WSOP bracelet and the leading face of poker's legitimisation in India. Born in New Delhi to a military family, she is a Natural8 India ambassador, has served as COO of the Poker Sports League, and appeared on Amazon Prime's “The Traitors India” in 2025. She is one of the most searched women in Asian poker.

For her full profile, see Nikita Luther's career stats and bio.

17. Kitty Kuo

Kitty Kuo is the “Queen of Asian Poker,” a Natural8 ambassador since 2016 and one of the most recognisable faces on the Asian circuit. Before poker she studied electrical engineering at USC and played on a blackjack team. Known for her fashion, fearless live reads, and lively X presence, she welcomed her first child in 2024 with poker vlogger Frankie Cucchiara.

See her full stats at Kitty Kuo's career profile.

18. Vivian Saliba

Vivian Saliba is a Brazilian PLO specialist and long-time 888poker ambassador who won a WSOP Europe bracelet in September 2024 as the only woman in the field. She learned Pot-Limit Omaha from her father at a São Paulo club at 18 and was the youngest woman in the 2017 WSOP Main Event on her debut. She streams for 888poker and lives between Austria and Italy.

19. Olga Iermolcheva

Olga Iermolcheva is Ukraine's most successful woman at the tables, a CoinPoker ambassador, and the breakout star of GGPoker's “Game of Gold,” where Daniel Negreanu publicly praised her play. She studied English literature before a classmate introduced her to poker. Now based in Miami, she hosts the “Olga Poker Podcast” and models on the side.

For more, see Olga Iermolcheva's full profile.

20. Sofia Lovgren

Sofia Lovgren is a Swedish pro who joined 888poker as an ambassador in 2014 alongside Xuan Liu and now competes mostly on the Asian circuit. She dominated the 2025 APT Championship Taipei festival, winning the Mystery Bounty event. One of the few European women playing regularly in Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines, she splits her time between Gothenburg and the road.

How We Ranked the Hottest Poker Players

We looked at poker credentials verified through The Hendon Mob and official tour reporting, social following on Instagram and Twitch, how consistently each player appears across other publications' lists, whether they have been active on the circuit or in poker media during 2025 and 2026, and reader interest from our own site data.

Players who combine real credentials with public visibility ranked higher than players known for only one or the other. The result is a list of the 20 best looking female poker players who also happen to be among the most accomplished. We update this list quarterly as new results and breakout names emerge.

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