Poker Allstar Bio: Jennifer Tilly
Born in Harbor City, LA, in 1958, Jennifer Tilly is first and foremost known for her career as an actress. She's starred and played in several movies, among which in several cult classics like Bride of Chucky, Stuart Little, The Cat's Meow, etc. She was a voice-actor in Family Guy, where she voiced the Bonnie Swanson character. She's currently involved in 2-3 movie projects and she's appeared in no fewer than 5 movies last year in various more or less prominent roles.
Tilly's original name was Jennifer E. Chan, after her father, who was a Chinese American salesman. Her parents divorced and she moved to Canada with her mother. Following her mothe's second divorce, the family moved to Victoria. They eventually ended up in Missiouri where Jennifer's acting career began when she was a teenager. The acting talent apparently runs in her family as her sister, Meg Tilly, is also a well known actress and Academy Award Nominee.
Though her movie industry achievements far eclipse her poker career, Jennifer is also known as a poker player and she's proved her worth numerous times at the poker table. She has a WSOP bracelet to show which, let's be frank about it, only a handful of successful poker players can boast. She became a member of this exclusive club after she took home the gold in the 2005 Ladies No Limit Texas Holdem event (pocketing a handsome $158,625 prize with it).
Her win wasn't just a flash in the pan either. She followed it up the same year with a win in the WPT Ladies Invitational Tournament at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. That win netted her a nice profit too, taking her lifetime tournament winnings to around $450,000. She's had a total of 4 WSOP money finishes, and 6 WPT cashes.
She appeared on Poker Superstars in 2006, but she never made it past the preliminary rounds. In the Celebrity Poker Showdown, she made it all the way to 3rd place where Ida Siconolfi eliminated her on a K,K vs A,K match-up, when Tilly's Big Slick failed to improve.
In 2007, Tilly was made into a video game character by Activision, for their game: World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2007 Edition. She currently dates poker professional Phil Laak. Although at one point in her career, Tilly had stated that she was more preoccupied with her poker career than the one in acting, in 2008 she retired from professional poker. She said that while she would continue to play poker, she'd view it as a hobby rather than a career, because achieving greatness through poker had proved more treacherous than she'd initially assessed.
Though she will probably not go down in history as the greatest female poker player, she is beyond doubt the most successful movie star ever to achieve this level of success at the green felt.
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Tilly's original name was Jennifer E. Chan, after her father, who was a Chinese American salesman. Her parents divorced and she moved to Canada with her mother. Following her mothe's second divorce, the family moved to Victoria. They eventually ended up in Missiouri where Jennifer's acting career began when she was a teenager. The acting talent apparently runs in her family as her sister, Meg Tilly, is also a well known actress and Academy Award Nominee.
Though her movie industry achievements far eclipse her poker career, Jennifer is also known as a poker player and she's proved her worth numerous times at the poker table. She has a WSOP bracelet to show which, let's be frank about it, only a handful of successful poker players can boast. She became a member of this exclusive club after she took home the gold in the 2005 Ladies No Limit Texas Holdem event (pocketing a handsome $158,625 prize with it).
Her win wasn't just a flash in the pan either. She followed it up the same year with a win in the WPT Ladies Invitational Tournament at the Bicycle Casino in Los Angeles. That win netted her a nice profit too, taking her lifetime tournament winnings to around $450,000. She's had a total of 4 WSOP money finishes, and 6 WPT cashes.
She appeared on Poker Superstars in 2006, but she never made it past the preliminary rounds. In the Celebrity Poker Showdown, she made it all the way to 3rd place where Ida Siconolfi eliminated her on a K,K vs A,K match-up, when Tilly's Big Slick failed to improve.
In 2007, Tilly was made into a video game character by Activision, for their game: World Series of Poker Tournament of Champions 2007 Edition. She currently dates poker professional Phil Laak. Although at one point in her career, Tilly had stated that she was more preoccupied with her poker career than the one in acting, in 2008 she retired from professional poker. She said that while she would continue to play poker, she'd view it as a hobby rather than a career, because achieving greatness through poker had proved more treacherous than she'd initially assessed.
Though she will probably not go down in history as the greatest female poker player, she is beyond doubt the most successful movie star ever to achieve this level of success at the green felt.
Playing poker online is much sweeter when a generous rakeback deal has your back covered. Rakemeback.com has some of the best deals available online. Sign up now and stop leaking money to the poker rake
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