Born and raised in Melbourne, Australia, Jackqueline ‘Jackie’ Glazier is a top-ranked female poker player. She started playing poker rather late in her life but eventually, her passion for the game cashed her more money than anything she’d ever done before. Her first appearance in the world of poker was in 2008 at the live tournament circuit where she cashed in a couple of local tournaments.

She traveled to Vegas in 2010 where she cashed in the WSOP Main Event. For a cash prize of almost $100,000, she won the Melbourne Poker Championship in 2012. In June 2012, Jackie flew to Vegas to play the 43^rd Annual WSOP and got a 2^nd place in the $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em Event, bringing home $458,996. Jackie is an upcoming Australian female poker player and is one of the Top 20 Australian poker players overall.

Jackie, bred and fed in Melbourne, has been rather competitive since her youth. During her teens, she was committed to being a professional tennis player and in order to pay for her extra lessons, she took up a part-time job at the young age of 14. By the time she was 16, Jackie traveled to the United States and competed in American tennis tournaments. While in the USA, she lived with a local family and religiously practiced tennis in order to perfect herself in the sport.

“I’ve always been an outdoorsy sporty sort of person”, she revealed in an interview. “It’s really good for kids to grow up with a sport”, she added. She attended university for four years and studied science, mathematics and human movement. In the end though, due to her poker success, she ended up never teaching a single day. Although she graduated with a teaching degree, she lacked the competition she yearned for.

Jackie came across poker when her husband got invited by a friend to play at a home game. She asked her husband if she could come along; however, she was told that girls were not invited to the home game. That didn’t discourage her; she researched how to play poker on the internet and grew confident about her poker strategy. When she was finally allowed to attend home games, she didn’t win the first few games, but she started becoming progressively better and eventually she started beating the game. Jackie Glazier’s husband, Jamie, is a mental performance coach who works with professional athletes as well as poker players, and just happens to be her coach too.

Her hard work and passion for the game was proven by her subsequent success in the cash games at her hometown Crown Casino in Melbourne. It was in 2008 that her desire to crush poker really began to show itself. By the end of 2008, she had mastered poker to a level much higher than she had before and began her journey as a poker superstar. She then transitioned from cash games to tournaments because she felt it suited her competitive nature more and gave her the challenge that she was looking for.

“One day, I just decided to come to the Casino and see what that was all about, and I’ve been here ever since!”

Her yearly live poker tournament cashes increased steadily but surely every year between 2008 and 2012. They went from a measly $722 in 2008, growing to $143,559 in 2011 and finishing in 2012 with over half a million in cashes for that year alone. She participated in the 2009 Crown Victorian Poker Championship, securing no less than a 1^st place in the $300 No Limit Hold’em Team Event for which she cashed $4,434. Incredibly enough this was her 3^rd ever live reported cash. Her results improved significantly in 2010, the year she cashed $31,647 in the 2010 WSOP Main Event.

In July, at the 2011 Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza III, she went on to take down a 1^st place in the $1,079 No Limit Hold’em Event for $72,257. In May, at the 2012 Melbourne Poker Championship, she got herself yet another 1^st place in the A$1,000 No Limit Hold’em Main Event and cashed A$95,000.

Her most notable achievement is arguably $458,996 she cashed from a 2^nd place finish in the 2012 Annual WSOP, falling just one player short of winning a WSOP bracelet. In total her total poker tournament winnings are just shy of $1,000,000.