Poker Leaderboard: Women’s All-Time Tournament Earnings List

A number of top female poker professionals added more than six figures to their career earnings so far this year, starting with 2022 Poker Hall of Fame nominee Kathy Liebert. The 54-year-old bracelet winner recorded her 13th score of six-figures or more when she finished fifth in the 2022 WSOP $1,000 buy-in no-limit hold’em seniors’ championship.

The $186,541 payday helped Liebert surpass the $6.7 million mark, keeping her the second-highest earning woman in tournament poker history behind only Vanessa Selbst ($10.9 million), who retired from professional play. With 22 cashes totaling more than $235,000 so far in 2022, Liebert is keeping some distance between herself and the next two contenders on this leaderboard.

Kristen Foxen, née Bicknell, has actually closed the gap on Liebert slightly this year, with her to-date earnings in 2022 totaling $245,505. The three-time WSOP bracelet winner recorded her largest cash of the year when she finished fifth in the WPT Choctaw main event back in May. The $135,000 score was the 15th-largest of her career. The 35-year-old Canadian-born poker pro’s 11 in-the-money finishes this year have put her just shy of $6 million in recorded earnings.

Maria Ho became just the fourth female player ever to surpass $4 million in career earnings thanks to a $131,655 payday she secured as the fifth-place finisher in the $10,000 no-limit hold’em super turbo bounty event at the series. Ho has accrued more than $170,000 in scores to this point in 2022, bringing her career total to more than $4.1 million. Unlike Liebert and Foxen, Ho is still looking to capture her first bracelet win. While she came within a handful of spots from securing the gold this summer, her closest call was a runner-up finish in the $5,000 no-limit hold’em event back in 2011. The $540,020 second-place prize was the largest payday of the 39-year-old poker pro’s career.

Rounding out this update is two-time bracelet winner Loni Hui, née Harwood. The 33-year-old Staten Island, New York native has made 16 cashes totaling $172,761 this year, bringing her career total to just shy of $3.5 million. Hui made a deep run in this year’s main event, finishing 252nd for $46,800.

Joanne ‘J.J.’ Liu deserves an honorable mention despite not yet surpassing six figures in earnings this year. The 57-year-old has accumulated just shy of $80,000 in 2022 across 21 in-the-money finishes, bringing her lifetime total to just more than $3.5 million.