High Heels Poker Tour Academy's Joanne Liu

Joanne Liu made her first final table in a World Series of Poker event in 1996 - the first year she started playing poker! She got fourth place in the $3000 Limit Hold'em tournament and won more than $32,000.
She went on to participate in over 40 major tournaments, from which she went out with nine more cash finishes at the WSOP - including two final tables in 2002 and 2003.
In March 2005, Joanne won $90,000 after finishing 1st at the 2005 World Poker Challenge in Reno.
In November 2005 she also made her first World Poker Tour final table and took fourth place at WPT's $15,000 buy-in Five Diamond World Poker Classic, collecting more than $362,000.
Joanne Liu won her first WPT title the following year - in 2006, at the WPT's Ladies Night Out event at the Legends of Poker.
Joanne's latest entry was in March, 2007 at the Bay 101 Shooting Stars event During that time she was also pregnant, which made it even more difficult for her to compete. Even though Joanne eventually lost the final table that lasted for over 2 hours, she became the highest finishing woman ever on the World Poker Tour. For that final battle alone, she collected more than $600,000 and is the only woman to win over $1 million on a WPT circuit.

According to Joanne Liu, The Art of War by Sun Tzu has given her inspiration and has helped her a lot in her career. She is also dedicated to introducing poker to East and Southeast Asia by conducting various poker seminars in Chinese. Besides live tournaments and online games at Full Tilt Poker, Joanne is also keen on traveling and piano.