Katja Thater
Katja Thater (* July 14, 1966 in Hamburg) is a German professional poker player and horse breeder.
Your first poker hand they played in 1999, when her partner and also a professional poker player Jan -Christoph " 50outs " by Hall asked her to represent him in a game of Seven Card Stud. First, they played mainly cash games, which are held at major tournaments on the side. In 2003, she played at the Mirage in Las Vegas against 140 participants their first major tournament in the variant No Limit Texas Hold'em and won. After consecutive times to retire at the edge of the World Poker Tour tournaments in Tunica five just before the border to the prize money ( in poker lingo: " on the bubble " ), she was referred to as Bubble Girl jokingly.
They even occurs on the Internet under the nickname Miss Slick, because of their aggressive style of play, it was sometimes referred to as Lady horror. At the Poker Nations Cup 2006 in Cardiff they played under the leadership of captain Michael Keiner with the six-member team Germany. Since the summer of 2006 she is a member of Team PokerStars.
She arrived at the World Series of Poker 2007 final table and two times the $ 1,500 Razz tournament she won her first WSOP bracelet. At the final table, she defeated, among others, Men "The Master" Nguyen, Mark Vos, Paul "Eskimo" Clark and won U.S. $ 132 653. In December 2007, she received the award for " Europe's Leading Lady" presented in Paris at the European Poker Awards. In May 2010, she was voted as the best mixed game players in the European Poker Tour and was awarded the " EPT Mixed Game Award" for season 6
On June 30, completed in 2011, PokerStars mutual agreement arrangement and Katja Thater had to leave the TeamPokerstarsPro.
Your notable rankings in poker tournaments:
- 4th place at the Austrian Classics 2002
- 29th place in the variant $ 1,500 Seven Card Stud at the World Series of Poker 2006
- 5th place in the European Poker Tour in Warsaw 2007
- 5th place in the variant WCE $ 1,000 Ladies No Limit Hold'em World Series of Poker 2007
- 1st place in the variant $ 1,500 Razz at the World Series of Poker 2007