Poker demands skill, discipline, and the ability to perform under pressure, and the women on this list have all done it at the highest level. Rankings here are based on the Hendon Mob all-time female live tournament earnings list, which reflects career prize money accumulated across the global circuit.
Here are the top 10 women poker players of all time.
1 – Kristen Foxen
Kristen Foxen sits at the top of the all-time female money list with over $15.4 million in live tournament winnings. The Canadian, born in St. Catharines, Ontario in 1986, married fellow pro Alex Foxen – the name most will recognise from her earlier career as Kristen Bicknell. She holds five World Series of Poker bracelets and has won the GPI Female Player of the Year award five times (2017, 2018, 2019, 2023, 2025). Her biggest career score came in September 2025: third place at the Triton Super High Roller Series in Jeju for $1.1 million. She also ran deep in the 2024 WSOP Main Event, finishing 13th for $600,000, one of the strongest performances by a female player in the event's history. Inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2024, Foxen is the most accomplished woman in the history of the game.
2 – Vanessa Selbst
Vanessa Selbst has $11.9 million in live tournament earnings and three WSOP bracelets, all won in open events, making her the only woman to achieve that feat three times. She was also the only woman ever to reach number one on the Global Poker Index. Born in Brooklyn, New York in 1984, Selbst holds degrees from Yale (political science) and Yale Law School (JD, 2012). She retired from professional poker in 2018 and now works alongside civil rights attorneys. She has two children with her wife Miranda. Selbst still plays occasionally – she entered both the 2024 WSOP Paradise and the 2025 WSOP Main Event – but her place on this list is secured by what she achieved during her prime.
3 – Kathy Liebert
Kathy Liebert is one of the most durable competitors in poker history. The Las Vegas-based American known as "PokerKat" has been cashing in tournaments since 1994 and has accumulated over $7.3 million in live earnings across 600-plus recorded cashes. Her breakthrough came in 2002 when she won the Party Poker Million for $1 million, becoming the first woman in history to win a $1 million prize in poker. She added a WSOP bracelet in 2004 ($1,500 Shootout) and made six WPT final tables over the course of her career. Inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2010, Liebert remains active on the circuit and shows no signs of stopping.
4 – Liv Boeree
Liv Boeree is the only female player in history to win both a WSOP bracelet and a European Poker Tour title. The British player, born in Kent in 1984, holds a First Class Honours degree in physics with astrophysics from the University of Manchester. She won the EPT San Remo Main Event in 2010 for approximately $1.7 million and her WSOP bracelet came in the 2017 $10,000 Tag Team Championship alongside her then-boyfriend, now husband, Igor Kurganov. After stepping away from professional poker in 2019, Boeree made one of the most dramatic returns in recent memory: in December 2024, she finished fourth in the $25,000 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event for $2.8 million, the largest live tournament cash ever recorded by a female player. Total live earnings now stand at $6.7 million. Away from poker, she hosts the Win-Win podcast, works as a science communicator, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science by the University of Hull in 2023. She and Kurganov married at Burning Man in September 2025.
5 – Sosia Jiang
Sosia Jiang is one of the most remarkable stories in modern poker. Born in Inner Mongolia in 1979, she moved to New Zealand at age seven and went on to earn a double degree in commerce and Asian studies from the Australian National University, followed by a law degree from the University of New South Wales. A corporate career at a major investment bank took her to Hong Kong, where she was introduced to the game at a home game hosted by her boss. She returned to New Zealand and now works as a teacher, playing poker part-time. Jiang specialises in high-roller events across the Asian circuit and Triton Series: her biggest scores include $1.6 million for eighth place at the WSOP Paradise Triton Million in December 2024 and $1.38 million at Triton ONE Jeju in September 2025. She leads the New Zealand all-time money list with over $6.1 million in live earnings.
6 – Maria Ho
Maria Ho is one of the most recognisable faces in poker, both at the table and behind the microphone. Born in Taipei, Taiwan in 1983, she moved to the US as a child and studied communications at UC San Diego. Ho has over $5.5 million in live tournament earnings, with her biggest score a runner-up finish at the 2011 WSOP ($5,000 NLHE, $540,020). She is a four-time WSOP Main Event "Last Woman Standing" – the only player in history to hold that distinction in both the US and European editions. In 2023, she won the inaugural season of Poker After Dark: Game of Gold for $456,000. Ho has been a broadcaster and commentator for PokerGO, ESPN and other major outlets since 2013, and was inducted into the Women in Poker Hall of Fame in 2018.
7 – Cherish Andrews
Cherish Andrews is the most consistently active female player on the current circuit. From Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, she was introduced to poker at 14 by her older brothers and has since accumulated over $4.6 million in live earnings across 255 career cashes, a volume that reflects relentless year-round competition at all buy-in levels. Andrews holds one WSOP bracelet (2022 Online $1,000 NLHE Championship) and four WSOP Circuit rings. She has won the GPI Female Player of the Year award twice, in 2022 and 2024, the latter edging out Kristen Foxen. Her career-best score came in April 2025: fourth place in the $25,500 WPT Seminole Hard Rock Poker Showdown High Roller for $408,265.
8 – Annie Duke
Annie Duke accumulated over $4.3 million in live tournament earnings during her playing career, including a WSOP bracelet in 2004 ($1,500 Omaha Hi/Lo) and a $2 million win at the 2004 WSOP Tournament of Champions. In 2010, she became the first and only woman to win the NBC National Heads-Up Poker Championship. Duke left professional poker in 2011 and has described herself as retired from the game since 2012. Born in New Hampshire into a family of card players (her brother is poker player Howard Lederer), she holds degrees from Columbia University and completed a PhD in Cognitive Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania in 2023. Duke is now an author and corporate speaker in the decision-making space, with books including Thinking in Bets (2018) and Quit (2022), and serves as Special Partner at investment firm First Round Capital.
9 – Loni Harwood
Loni Harwood – now Loni Hui following her 2020 marriage to fellow two-time bracelet winner Phillip Hui – burst onto the scene with one of the most extraordinary summers in WSOP history. At just 23, she made three final tables and won a bracelet at the 2013 WSOP: her victory in the $1,500 NLHE (Event #60) earned $609,017, at the time the largest payout to a woman in any Las Vegas WSOP event. Her total earnings across that series alone came to $874,698, the highest female total in a single WSOP. She added a second bracelet in 2015 at the US National Championship ($341,599). A finance graduate from SUNY Albany, Harwood grew up in Staten Island and now lives in Hollywood, Florida. She has over $4.2 million in career earnings and five WSOP Circuit rings.
10 – Ebony Kenney
Ebony Kenney made her name in the biggest buy-in events in the world. The Florida-based American began playing poker in 2007, and her career took a major turn at the 2022 Triton Super High Roller Series in Cyprus, where she finished fifth in the $200,000 Coin Rivet Invitational for $1.7 million – at the time one of the largest live cashes ever recorded by a woman. She followed that with a runner-up finish at Triton ONE Jeju in September 2025 for $614,500. A former model, Kenney is also a streaming personality, content creator, and confidence coach, with a presence across poker media beyond just the tournament results. Her total live earnings now exceed $4.1 million.
Key takeaways
- Kristen Foxen leads the all-time female money list with over $15.4 million in live earnings and five WSOP bracelets.
- Vanessa Selbst is the only woman to reach #1 on the Global Poker Index and the only female player to win three WSOP bracelets in open events.
- Kathy Liebert was the first woman to win a $1 million prize in poker (2002 Party Poker Million) and remains one of the most active players on this list.
- Liv Boeree holds the record for the largest live tournament cash by a female player: $2.8 million at the 2024 WSOP Paradise Super Main Event.
- Sosia Jiang and Ebony Kenney are high-roller specialists whose biggest scores have come at Triton Series events.
- Maria Ho is the only player to be the WSOP Main Event's Last Woman Standing in both the US and European editions – four times in total.
- Cherish Andrews is the most consistently active player on this list, with two GPI Female POY titles (2022, 2024) and 255+ career cashes.
- Annie Duke and Vanessa Selbst have both stepped away from professional poker.
- Loni Harwood's 2013 WSOP remains one of the greatest single-series performances in women's poker history: three final tables, one bracelet, $874,698 in earnings.
