Katja Thater is a poker player from Hamburg, Germany. She plays gambling online and professional poker and has in recent years acquired a reputation of a poker pro on the European poker circuit. Her introduction to poker happened in 1999 in a way few can imagine. She was required to play a limit poker game on behalf of her husband, in which the stakes were high. She played her cards well and came up trumps in top casinos. She never looked back after that win, going professional, playing in cash games.
When she decided it was time for her to start playing in tournaments, her performance suggested she was naturally inclined towards poker. She displayed impressive poker skills at the 38th Annual World Series of Poker - Ladies, in Event #17, held on June 10, 2007, in the No Limit Hold'em World Championship, finishing 5th place and taking home a purse of $49,151. Although she doesn’t like to restrict herself to ladies’ poker, it was her sponsors who put her name down for the event. And of course she took up the challenge with alacrity. It was no mean feat, up against a tough field of 1,286 women competitors and names like Mary Jones Meyer and Susie Isaacs. But Katja Thater did not lose focus and made it to the final table where she finished fifth.
Katja Thater’s crowning glory would be her win in the male dominated arena of the World Series of Poker, at Event #29 of the of the Razz Seven Card, held on June 17, 2007, at the 38th Annual World Series of Poker. She came 1st and won a well-deserved $132,653 as prize money. This made Katja Thater the first woman to win an open WSOP event in over three years. She also created history by becoming the first woman ever to receive the distinction of being crowned at the Rio in Las Vegas.
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