Player Focus: Jennicide

"Jennicide" - a 23-year-old online pro from Wilmington in Delaware - started playing the game only in 2004 but is one of the most marketable online players in the world. She has her own expensively-designed blog site - which tells you what's on her Ipod as well as how much money she's won online - and a glittering array of gallery pictures sit alongside a list of her recent media appearances.

That's not to say that "Jennicide" - aka Jennifer Leigh - hasn't got the poker game to compete at the highest level, but she has the overall package that sponsors are looking for, should she ever need other ways of making an income. Leigh appears well on the way to setting herself up as a one-woman poker-related industry.

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Her rise to the top has happened at remarkable speed. After using her computing skills to master the game two years ago, she worked her way up from $5 buy-ins to $100/$200 tournaments and built up her winnings along the way. Before long she was playing regularly, and winning more than she lost as she became well-known on the online circuit.

Her winnings reveal how successful she is - she's collected $127,880 on PokerStars since the start of 2005, including a fourth-place finish (in a field of 5,699) in a $200 buy-in tourney in September that earned her $44,452. Not a bad record just two years after making her poker debut.

Offline, "Jennicide" has also started to show her poker prowess - she won $16,832 at a World Series of Poker event earlier this year and $15,530 at a WPT tournament in Los Angeles in September.

And there's more to come. Young, free and single (she was dating Gavin Griffin, a WSOP bracelet winner, last year but is reportedly unattached at the moment) she spends her time travelling the world playing in tournaments and becoming more involved in poker tie-ups.

With TV appearances supposedly lined up, you'll be seeing a lot more of "Jennicide" in future.


View Jennicide's PVi Profile here


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