Hottest Female Poker Players in 2026: The Most Beautiful Women in Poker

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 has $6.7 million in career earnings and tops virtually every beauty ranking in poker.

The 20 most attractive women in poker are not just faces at the table. They are bracelet winners, millionaire earners, and media personalities with real poker credentials. For the full career-focused guide covering 49 players, see our famous female poker players page.

Full Rankings: All 20 Players Compared

Here are all 20 players on our 2026 list, ranked by a combination of career earnings, social media presence, competitor list frequency, and current relevance. The detailed profiles follow below.

The Most Beautiful Women in Poker Right Now

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 beauty and popularity lists across poker publications.

1. Liv Boeree

Liv Boeree is the only woman in poker history to hold both an EPT title and a WSOP bracelet. She won the 2010 EPT Sanremo Main Event for $1.7 million and added her bracelet at the 2017 WSOP $10,000 Tag Team event alongside husband Igor Kurganov. Her career earnings sit at $6.7 million across 108 cashes.

In December 2024, Boeree finished 4th in the WSOP Paradise $25,000 Super Main Event for $2.8 million, the largest single tournament score by a woman in live poker history. That result pushed her to 4th on the women’s all-time money list.

Beyond poker, she holds a first-class Physics with Astrophysics degree from the University of Manchester and runs a popular science YouTube channel focused on game theory and decision-making. She co-founded the charity Raising for Effective Giving and donated roughly $560,000 of her WSOP winnings to fight factory farming. She married Kurganov at Burning Man in September 2025.

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

2. Maria Ho

Maria Ho has $5.5 million in career earnings and was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2018. She is also one of poker’s most recognized broadcasters, working as a commentator for PokerGO, the WSOP, and multiple televised final tables.

Ho has the largest Instagram following among dedicated female poker pros at approximately 139,000 followers. Her crossover appeal extends beyond poker: she appeared on Season 15 of The Amazing Race, won Game of Gold in 2023 for $456,000, and is the only player to be named WSOP Main Event “Last Woman Standing” four times (US and Europe combined).

Born in Taipei and raised in Arcadia, California, she studied at UC San Diego before pursuing poker full-time. 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 (formerly Kristen Bicknell) is the highest-earning female poker player of all time with over $15.4 million in tracked live tournament earnings. She holds five WSOP bracelets and has won a record five GPI Female Player of the Year titles (2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025).

In September 2025, Foxen finished 3rd at the Triton Jeju $125K NLH for $1.1 million, the result that pushed her past Vanessa Selbst to claim the #1 spot on the women’s all-time money list. She was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2024 and is currently a WePoker ambassador.

She and husband Alex Foxen are poker’s most dominant active couple, both winning events at the 2026 U.S. Poker Open. Before becoming a tournament player, she was an online grinder who achieved Supernova Elite status on PokerStars, playing over 2.5 million hands per year under the screen name “krissyb24.”

4. Vanessa Rousso

Vanessa Rousso, known as “Lady Maverick,” has approximately $3.5 million in career earnings and appeared on Season 17 of Big Brother, where she finished 3rd. She has been featured in Maxim and GQ and has worked as a DJ and model alongside her poker career.

Rousso graduated from Duke University in just 2.5 years with a focus on game theory, economics, and psychology, then earned a law degree from the University of Miami and passed the Florida Bar. She won the EPT Monte Carlo Grand Final €25,000 High Roller in 2009 for roughly $962,000 and also took down two Poker After Dark sit-and-go titles.

She was a Team PokerStars Pro from 2006 to 2015. She has been largely retired from tournament poker since 2017, now pursuing music as part of the DJ duo N1TEL1TE. She appears on virtually every competitor’s “hottest female poker players” list and remains one of the most recognized names in this space.

5. Kara Scott

Kara Scott is a Canadian television presenter, journalist, and poker player with $665,000 in career earnings. Her biggest result was a runner-up finish at the 2009 Irish Poker Open for $413,612, losing heads-up to Christer Johansson.

Scott is best known as one of poker’s pioneering female broadcasters. She has hosted and reported for the WSOP, WPT, and PokerGO over the past 15 years. She was an 888poker ambassador from 2016 to 2023 and now runs the “Heart of Poker” podcast and the Tilt Events consultancy.

Born in Alberta, she holds dual Canadian-British nationality and currently lives in Ljubljana, Slovenia, with her husband, Italian poker pro Giovanni Rizzo. She speaks fluent English and Italian.

6. Kelly Minkin (Kelly Lucas)

Kelly Minkin (now Kelly Lucas) has $1.56 million in career earnings across 83 cashes and is the only woman to be named WSOP Main Event “Last Woman Standing” twice (2015 and 2018). Her best result was a 3rd-place finish at the 2015 WPT Lucky Hearts Poker Open for $262,912.

What makes Lucas unique is her dual career. She is a practicing Arizona attorney specializing in medical-malpractice defense, balancing law with poker in a way few players at her level have managed. She was a former partypoker-sponsored pro.

She married former professional basketball player Landen Lucas in early 2023 and now goes by Kelly Lucas. In July 2025, a clip of her slowrolling Phil Hellmuth at the table went viral, reminding the poker world she is still very much in the game.

Sexiest Poker Players: The New Generation

These eight players have surged in visibility over the past two years through tournament results, 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 crossed over from chess to poker and brought an audience of over 1.3 million Twitch followers with her. The Canadian content creator runs BotezLive alongside her sister, Andrea, one of the largest gaming channels on the platform.

Botez is a Woman FIDE Master, five-time Canadian girls’ national champion, and Stanford graduate who was the first female president of the Stanford Chess Club. In May 2025, she signed with ClubWPT Gold after leaving GGPoker. Her live tournament earnings sit at $151,000 across 14 cashes, but her real impact is in reach: she introduces poker to an audience that would never find it otherwise.

Her biggest poker moment came on Hustler Casino Live in May 2022, where she booked a $456,900 profit in a single session, finishing as the biggest winner ahead of MrBeast, Phil Hellmuth, and Tom Dwan. For her background and career details, see Alexandra Botez’s bio and net worth.

8. Sashimi (Yuuki Kaida)

Sashimi, real name Yuuki Kaida, is a Japanese cash game player and BC.GAME ambassador who has become one of the most recognizable faces on Hustler Casino Live. She has made over 180 appearances on HCL’s “Max Pain Monday” streams and built a following of approximately 91,000 on Instagram.

Kaida was born in 1993 into a third-generation Korean family in Japan. She moved to the United States on a student visa for business studies and transitioned into poker in Las Vegas. She has no tracked tournament earnings on Hendon Mob because she plays exclusively cash games, with a tracked livestream profit of roughly $87,000.

Her most notable HCL moment came in a session where she won a $193,600 pot with a set of tens against Ben Lee and Nik Airball. She also went viral in January 2023 after a prosthetic-bodysuit prank on a Max Pain Monday stream.

9. Robbi Jade Lew

Robbi Jade Lew became the most searched female name in poker after the infamous J4 hand on Hustler Casino Live in September 2022. She called Garrett Adelstein’s roughly $109,000 all-in holding J♣4♥ on a Th-Tc-9c-3h board and won the $269,000 pot when her hand held against his 8c7c.

Adelstein accused her of cheating. She refunded him $135,000, which she later said was due to intimidation, not guilt. An independent investigation by The Solution Group found no evidence of cheating, and she passed a polygraph.

HCL employee Bryan Sagbigsal was separately convicted in 2025 for stealing $15,000 in chips from her stack after play.

Before poker, Lew spent roughly 15 years in biopharma, including a senior role at Bayer. She was born in Saudi Arabia and moved to the United States at age five. Her live tournament earnings are $199,000 across 46 cashes.

She appeared on USA Network’s “The Anonymous” in 2024 and remains active in cash games and tournaments in 2026. For the full story, see Robbi Jade Lew’s full profile and controversy breakdown.

10. Qiyu Zhou (Nemo)

Qiyu Zhou, known online as “Nemo” or “akaNemsko,” is a Chinese-born Canadian chess champion turned poker player and content creator. She holds the Woman Grandmaster and FIDE Master titles and was the first Canadian woman to earn both.

Zhou was born in Jingzhou, China, in 2000 and grew up across France, Finland, and Canada, speaking four languages fluently. She became the youngest-ever Finnish national chess champion at age five and won the gold medal at the 2014 World Youth Chess Championship. In 2020, she became the first competitive chess player signed to an esports organization (Counter Logic Gaming).

Her poker career is still developing. She has $54,000 in live tournament earnings across 8 cashes, with her best result a $20,000 win at the 2023 Enclave Celebrity Poker Invitational.

Her real strength is her audience: nearly 994,000 Instagram followers on @nemochess, 599,000 YouTube subscribers, and 371,000 on Twitch. 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 Gligoric, known as “Lija,” is a GGPoker ambassador and livestream regular with approximately 62,000 Instagram followers. The Serbian “Cash Game Queen” appears frequently on GGPoker’s televised cash game streams and has built a loyal following through consistent, high-volume content.

Originally from Loznica, Serbia, Gligoric studied electrical engineering before switching to poker full-time. She joined GGPoker as an ambassador in February 2022 at age 23 and streams cash games six to seven days a week from Malta. She completed a $0/$500-to-$10,000 bankroll challenge on stream in three months.

Her tournament earnings are minimal, but her search interest tells a different story. She is the single most searched individual player name driving traffic to this page, confirming that fan interest in poker goes well beyond tournament results.

12. Xuan Liu

Xuan Liu has approximately 79,000 Instagram followers, making her the second most-followed dedicated female poker pro on the platform after Maria Ho. Her Reels regularly pull over 400,000 plays, reaching an audience far beyond the typical poker community.

In May 2025, Liu became the first woman to win a Triton Poker title, taking down the Triton Montenegro $25,000 WPT Global Slam for $860,000 over 155 entries, defeating Daniel Dvoress heads-up. That win pushed her to 15th on the Women’s All-Time Money List, passing Jennifer Harman. Her total career earnings are approximately $3.3 million.

Born in Tianjin, China, she moved to Toronto at age five. She is also the only woman to reach a PCA Main Event final table. After a six-year hiatus from full-time poker (2018 to 2024), her Triton win marked one of the most dramatic comebacks in women’s poker.

13. Marle Spragg (Marle Cordeiro)

Marle Spragg, formerly Marle Cordeiro, is a PokerStars content creator and YouTube vlogger with approximately $538,000 in career earnings across 91 cashes. Her best result was an 8th-place finish at the 2023 EPT Prague Main Event for roughly $133,000.

She won the 2024 Global Poker Award for Best X/Twitter Personality and first gained attention through her viral 2018 “Looking for a poker pro boyfriend” YouTube vlog. She married fellow PokerStars streamer Ben “Spraggy” Spragg in Las Vegas in August 2021.

Born in the Boston area in 1992, Spragg now lives in London. Use both names when searching for her: Marle Cordeiro brings up her earlier career, Marle Spragg her current work.

14. Samantha Abernathy

Samantha Abernathy has $631,000 in career earnings across 64 cashes, headlined by a 3rd-place finish at the 2016 Aussie Millions Main Event for $437,543. That result alone accounts for nearly 70% of her lifetime tracked earnings.

Born in 1991 in Atlanta, Abernathy is a SCAD graduate who worked as a graphic designer, photographer, and illustrator before going pro. She was a former 888poker ambassador and a member of the WSOP “Thrill Team.” Off the felt, she once completed a 320-mile bicycle ride from Las Vegas to Los Angeles before Dan Bilzerian attempted the same challenge, winning a $10,000 bet in the process.

She became a mother in 2023 and has been playing a lighter tournament schedule since, with her most recent cash ($10,083) coming in February 2026. For her full profile, see Samantha Abernathy’s career stats and bio.

Hottest Female Poker Pros 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 biggest breakout name in women’s poker over the past two years. She became the first player to win back-to-back WSOP Ladies Championships, taking the 2024 title over 1,245 entries for $171,732 and the 2025 title over a record 1,368-entry field for $184,094.

She also won the EPT Barcelona Women’s Event in August 2025 and signed as a GTO Wizard ambassador. Her total career earnings are $1.17 million. Okamoto is an architect by training, and her analytical, math-driven approach to the game has made her a role model for a growing generation of Japanese poker players.

She finished runner-up in the 2023 Ladies Event before winning it outright the next two years. She is now eyeing a three-peat at the 2026 WSOP. 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, taking the 2018 $1,000 Tag Team event alongside Giuseppe Pantaleo. She has $541,000 in career earnings across 42 cashes, with a best individual result of $109,300 (2nd at the 2019 WPT500 at ARIA).

Born in New Delhi on January 20, 1991, to a military family, Luther is a Natural8 India brand ambassador and has been involved with the Poker Sports League as COO. She appeared on Amazon Prime’s “The Traitors India” in 2025 alongside Karan Johar and competed in GGPoker’s Game of Gold.

Luther is the leading face for poker’s legitimization in India and one of the most searched female poker players from Asia. For her full profile, see Nikita Luther’s career stats and bio.

17. Kitty Kuo

Kitty Kuo is the “Queen of Asian Poker” and one of the most active international tournament players on this list. The Taiwanese pro has $3.77 million in career earnings across 193 cashes, ranking #1 among female players and approximately 5th overall on Taiwan’s all-time money list.

Her best result was a 4th-place finish at the 2023 Seminole Hard Rock Poker Open Championship for $480,763. She has been a Natural8 ambassador since 2016 and won the GPI Asia Player of the Year award in 2013.

Before poker, Kuo studied electrical engineering at USC and was a member of a blackjack team. She is known for her energetic table personality, fearless live reads, and active presence on X. She welcomed her first child in 2024 with poker player and vlogger Frankie Cucchiara.

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

18. Vivian Saliba

Vivian Saliba is a Brazilian PLO specialist and 888poker ambassador who became a WSOP bracelet winner in September 2024, taking down the WSOPE Event #4 €2,000 Pot-Limit Omaha for €91,400. She was the only woman in the 229-entry field and played a 17-hour final day to earn the title.

Her career earnings are $1.02 million, with her biggest cash a 4th-place finish at the 2019 WSOP $888 Crazy Eights for $308,888. She has been with 888poker since 2017 and streams on their Twitch and YouTube channels.

Saliba learned PLO from her father at a São Paulo poker club when she was 18. When she debuted at the 2017 WSOP Main Event, she was the youngest female player in the field. She now lives between Austria and Italy.

19. Olga Iermolcheva

Olga Iermolcheva is a Ukrainian poker pro and CoinPoker ambassador with $854,000 in career earnings across 128 cashes. She is the winningest Ukrainian female player and ranks 21st on Ukraine’s all-time money list.

Born in the Cherkasy region of Ukraine in December 1992, Iermolcheva studied English literature before being introduced to poker by a classmate. She was a PokerMatch ambassador from 2018 and later became the breakout star of GGPoker’s “Game of Gold” reality show, where Daniel Negreanu publicly praised her play.

She now lives in Miami, hosts the “Olga Poker Podcast,” and is also a model and ballet enthusiast. Her best live cash is $113,580 from a deep run in Panama, and she was still actively cashing as recently as April 2026.

20. Sofia Lovgren

Sofia Lovgren is a Swedish poker pro and former 888poker ambassador with $786,000 in career earnings across 76 cashes. Her most recent highlight was winning the 2025 APT Championship Taipei Mystery Bounty event for roughly $165,000 in total prizes (top prize plus 12 bounties, including the two largest in the tournament).

From Gothenburg, Sweden, Lovgren joined 888poker as an ambassador in 2014 alongside Xuan Liu. She is most active on the Asian and European tournament circuits and dominated the 2025 APT Championship Taipei festival with several cashes across events.

She is one of the few European women competing regularly on the Asian circuit, splitting her time between Gothenburg and tournament stops across Taiwan, Vietnam, and the Philippines.

How We Ranked This List

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

Players who combine real poker 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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