Jennifer TIlly started playing poker during the making of a gambling comedy wherein Tilly was asked and taught to play poker. She enjoyed it and continuously played poker with friends in a home-based duel. During an invitational tournament, she met her current boyfriend Phil Laak who is a professional poker player. He encouraged Tilly to join in competitive tournaments in 2003. It was also Laak who taught Tilly techniques in playing and winning poker.

Another Jennifer in the poker world today is Jennifer Harman. She was born on November 29, 1964 in Reno, Nevada. She started playing poker when she was 8 years old. She was a promising childhood poker pro, but she encountered several health problems during those years.

Harman went to University of Nevada and finished biology. She worked as part-time waitress in a restaurant wherein after poker players finish their games, she used to get their tips on the tables. She also worked as a bartender and played poker. After some time, she thought that poker is not her career choice, thus she started opening up her own business.

Daisy Fuentes is a Cuban national but migrated to Madrid three years after she was born. She earned a degree in communications and journalism at Bergen Community College. During college, she worked as the weather girl for WXTV Channel 41. She further became a news anchor and a reporter in television news.

Aside from being into news and current affairs, Fuentes also modeled for several beauty products. She, too, became MTV Latino after noticing her beauty and potentials. She hosted several TV programs and beauty pageants such as America’s Funniest Home Videos, Miss Teen USA, Miss USA, and Miss Universe Pageants. She also acted on the big screen. She used her poker skills for charities. She competed at the World Poker Tour in the Hollywood Home games so she could help the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital charity.

Shannon Elizabeth obtained her beauty from her Syrian father Gerald Edward Fadal and French-American-Indian mother Patricia Abbott. She was born in Houston, Texas and grew up in Waco.

Elizabeth appeared in several movies and TV programs like American Pie, Scary Movie, Jack Frost and Digg Dogs, One on One, and Tomcats. She also posted for Playboy magazine and Maxim. She usually plays poker at casinos and described poker as her “second choice career”.