Loni Hui (; born c. 1989) is a professional

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player who won a

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at the

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. She won two

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in 2012, then her second WSOP bracelet in 2015.

Background

Harwood earned a finance degree in 2012 from the University at Albany, State University of New York. Upon graduation, she moved to Florida and began playing poker, quickly discovering the

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. Her initial poker training came from watching her father, Joel Harwood, play online.

Career highlights

Harwood won two World Series of Poker circuit rings in 2012: 2012 WSOP Circuit - Palm Beach Kennel Club 500-entrant $300 + $45 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Event 2 for $30,994, and 2012 WSOP Circuit - Harrah's New Orleans 345-entrant $355 buy-in No-Limit Hold'em Event 4 for $23,090. The former was her first ever WSOP Circuit event. She earned her first bracelet by winning the 2,541-entrant $1,500 No Limit Hold'em 2013 World Series of Poker Event 60 and its $609,017 prize. Her victory at the 2013 World Series of Poker was historic: it made her the second woman (

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) to make three final tables in a single World Series and the first to win a bracelet in the same year she did so; it moved her into third place in the 2013 World Series of Poker Player of the Year race; and it moved her into eighth place on the all-time female World Series earnings list. Additionally, her $609,017 is the highest payout to a woman in any Las Vegas event in World Series of Poker history (second in overall World Series of Poker Europe history to

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's £1,000,000 from the 2007 World Series of Poker Europe main event) and her $874,698 total at the 2013 World Series of Poker is the highest female total in a single World Series. On July 31, 2015, Harwood won the 2015 WSOP U.S. National Championship for $341,599 and her second career bracelet.

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References

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