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Getting To Know Absolute Poker’s Latest Beauty, Liv Boeree

Phil Hellmuth and David “Devilfish” Ulliott took Liv Boeree’s virginity.

There, now that we’ve got your attention, allow us to explain. Boeree was one of five “poker virgins” picked to appear on a U.K. poker reality TV show in 2005, with the inexperienced newbies learning the game from such pros as Hellmuth and Ulliott. Just 21 at the time, Boeree, a model from Kent, England, quickly got hooked on Texas Hold ’Em and soon found herself playing tournaments throughout Britain—and doing extremely well for herself. And just like that, a career in poker was born.

Boeree won the Ladbrokes European Ladies Championship in May 2008 and is now a representative of Absolute Poker, where she plays as a bounty in tournaments every Thursday.

Poker wasn’t Boeree’s first love, of course; that would be heavy metal music. A guitarist since her teens, Liv once won a $4,000 Gibson in an air guitar competition. She’s also a talented athlete (horseback riding and skiing ranking among her top athletic passions), and she’s plenty educated, having graduated from the University of Manchester with a first-class degree in astrophysics.

But it’s poker that she’s pursuing a degree in now, and win or lose (though she’s certainly doing more of the former than the latter), Liv Boeree is definitely not a virgin anymore.