Living in Las Vegas, Nevada, and Downey, California, Kathleen H. Liebert was born in Nashville, Tennessee on October 1st, 1967. She grew up on Long Island in New York and attended Marist College. With a Bachelors degree in finance and business, she was hired by Dun & Bradstreet. She made enough successful stock investments that she was able to quit the ‘9 to 5’ and travel the country.
Liebert’s skiing trip to Colorado found her playing poker. She played poker with family as a child but she jumped into poker with such intensity in Colorado, that she was offered a job as a prop at the club she played at.
The saying goes, “The rest is history,” but that isn’t the case with Liebert since she’s very active in tournaments and has a remarkable track record with them, there should be many more scores to come. She was the first woman to ever win a tournament with a first place of $1,000,000—the PartyPoker Million in 2002.
Liebert has 31 World Series of Poker (WSOP) cashes to her credit including a Gold Bracelet in the $1,500 Limit Holdem Shootout in 2004 and finishing 3rd in the 2008 $10,000 Pot Limit Holdem Event.. Liebert is a familiar face at final tables of the World Poker Tour (WPT) with five final table appearances including finishing 3rd in the 2005 Borgata Poker Open and 2nd at the 2009 Shooting Stars tournament.
Liebert has a tremendous tournament history with winnings in excess of $5,500,000 and has won more prize money than any other woman in poker history in open field tournaments. She’s ranked 38th overall.
Is the rest history? Liebert’s still making it.
Tournaments and Winnings
Gold Coast Open
2 $ 100 + 20 Omaha Hi/Lo
2 $ 200 + 30 Limit Hold"em
7 $ 200 + 30 1/2 Hold"em, 1/2 Omaha Hi/Lo
LA Poker Open II
9 $ 200 + 30 Limit Hold"em
1 $ 200 + 30 Omaha Hi/Lo
Big Poker Oktober
3 $ 200 + 30 Omaha Hi/Lo
Guaranteed Tournaments Festival
5 $ 100 + 10 Hold"em
Gold Coast Masters
2 $ 300 + 30 Limit Hold"em
5 $ 200 + 30 Limit Hold"em
4 No Limit Hold"em
Viejas Open
3 $ 100 + 15 Limit Hold"em
3 $ 100 + 15 Omaha
1994 World Poker Finals
4 $ 100 Ladies Hold"em
Queens Poker Classic V
6 $ 500 + 30 Omaha Hi/Lo Split
4 $ 500 + 30 Limit Hold"em
LA Poker Classic IV
7 $ 300 + 30 Limit Hold"em
California State Poker Championship 1995
5 $ 300 + 30 Omaha Hi/Lo Split
Amarillo Slim"s Superbowl of Poker
5 $ 300 + 30 Limit Omaha Hi/Lo
1996 Winnin" o" the Green
2 $ 500 No Limit Hold"em
California State Poker Championship 1996
7 $ 300 + 30 Limit Hold"em
1996 Legends of Poker
5 $ 300 + 30 No Limit Hold"em
LA Poker Open IV
2 $ 330 No Limit Hold"em - Terminator
1996 United States Poker Championship
4 $ 1,500 + 70 No Limit Hold"em
1997 Four Queens Poker Classic
2 $ 500 + 35 No Limit Hold"em
2 $ 500 + 35 No Limit Hold"em
2 $ 1,000 + 55 Limit Hold"em
Card Player Cruises
7 $ 100 + 20 Omaha Hi/Lo
28th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1997
18 $ 3,000 Hold"em Pot Limit
2 $ 3,000 No Limit Hold"em
1997 Orleans Open
7 $ 100 + 20 7 Card Stud
3 $ 200 + 30 Limit Omaha
6 $ 200 + 30 7 Card Stud Hi/Lo
Queens Poker Classic Summer Edition
7 $ 300 + 30 Limit Hold"em
LA Poker Open V
8 $ 200 + 20 Limit Hold"em
1997 Peppermill Fall Tournament
1 $ 100 Hold"em
Big Poker Oktober - 1997
7 $ 100 + 15 Crazy Pineapple Hi/Lo
4 $ 200 + 20 Omaha Hi/Lo
1997 World Poker Finals
7 $ 200 + 20 Omaha Hi/Lo
29th World Series of Poker (WSOP) 1998
12 $ 1,000 Women"s 7-Card Stud
17 $ 10,000 No Limit Hold"em World Championship
Poker Challenge Week
3 $ 100 + 15 Razz/Stud/Omaha
Third Annual Ventura Poker Championships
1 $ 100 Hold"em
$100,000 Guaranteed Labor Day No Re-Buy Weekend
2 $ 100 + 15 Limit Hold"em
1998 Tom McEvoy Poker Spectacular
5 $ 100 + 20 Razz/Omaha/Stud
Carnivale of Poker II
2 $ 500 + 40 Pot-Limit Hold"em
No Re-Buy Weekend
6 $ 100 + 20 7-Card Stud Hi-Lo
1999 Winnin" o" the Green
4 $ 100 No Limit Hold"em
1 $ 100 Limit Hold"em
USA vs The World
1 $ 300 + 30 Pot Limit Omaha - Hi only
6 $ 300 + 30 Pot Limit 1/2 Hold"em & 1/2 Omaha - Hi only