Poker Corridor of Famer Jennifer Harman was a mainstay and fan favourite on televised poker exhibits throughout the 2000s. She’s stepped away from the limelight lately, however high-stakes poker stays a daily a part of her life.
The 2-time World Sequence of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner is again on the WSOP this summer time with a “constructive” mindset, hoping to win her first bracelet because the pre-Moneymaker period. Harman, a Las Vegas native, spoke to PokerNews on a Day 1 break in Occasion #9: $10,000 Omaha Hello-Lo 8 or Higher Championship, her first occasion of the summer time.
“, I am in a extremely constructive place proper now. So, , I be ok with it,” Harman stated about probably enjoying extra bracelet occasions this summer time than regular. “I miss it, . I really like money video games, and I miss tournaments.”
Harman stated she’s been enjoying “a ton of money video games,” largely in personal video games at Aria or Bellagio, two of the highest poker rooms in Las Vegas. But it surely appears she might need that itch to grind some tournaments on the WSOP this yr and chase her first bracelet since 2002.
A Poker Increase Period Celebrity
Harman, who went into the Poker Corridor of Fame in 2015 with fellow former Full Tilt Poker professional John Juanda, remembers the poker growth period fondly.
“Excessive Stakes Poker was a lot enjoyable. I miss that. I miss it quite a bit. It was simply, I used to be a newbie in no-limit maintain’em. I nonetheless am as a result of I play combined video games,” Harman defined.
Harman appeared regulary on exhibits like Excessive Stakes Poker and Poker After Darkish, the 2 most outstanding money sport exhibits within the 2000s. She additionally discovered herself often at a televised or facet characteristic desk throughout World Sequence of Poker broadcasts on ESPN. Throughout a kind of WSOP episodes, in 2005, she was on the fallacious finish of probably the most notorious slowrolls in poker historical past.
Notorious Poker Slowroll
Harman had a full home on the river and had made a big wager to place her opponent, New York professional Cory Zeidman, all in. Zeidman rivered a one-outer for a straight flush and did not snap-call. He as a substitute, for some unknown motive, went into the tank to Hollywood earlier than making the decision to double-up and go away Harman short-stacked.
That hand has been performed tens of millions of occasions round poker circles. A long time later and Zeidman is presently serving a 46-month federal jail sentence following a Oct. 2025 responsible plea for wire fraud associated to an unlawful sports activities betting operation he ran. Does Harman take into account Zeidman ending up in jail karma for the slowroll?
“No, it isn’t karma,” she answered. “Perhaps proper at that second I get upset, however then I recover from it actually quick. I throw small tempur tantrums after which I am achieved. Was I upset? Yeah, however as soon as I had him all in after which he began the speech, I used to be like, okay, I am achieved.”
Harman stated she had “individuals come as much as me and say, , he meant to try this.” She then informed maybe a lesser identified story in regards to the following yr on the WSOP the place the 2 once more had been seated on the similar desk.
“Day 1, very starting of the event,” she started. “He knocks me out, like half-hour. So, I am out of the event. however I am like steaming. And I am going to Bellagio and I sit down and play. I take my huge blind. It is PLO. I simply suppose the cap was $125,000, and I simply get it in 3 ways with backside two. I am up towards prime set and prime straight, and we ran it twice. And each occasions I made runner-runner flush and received the pot.”
“I simply grabbed some racks and cashed out. In order that like took care of my tilt.”
Harman historically spends a lot of her summers chasing the massive scores in money video games — largely combined video games — at Bellagio like lots of the excessive rollers. However she’s nonetheless passionate in regards to the World Sequence of Poker 21 years after that notorious slowroll.
“, my sons simply pulled out my two bracelets every week in the past, they usually’re feeling it,” Harman stated. “And, , they usually’re like, wow, these are heavy. And I stated, one for you and one in your brother.”
There’s just one downside, she wants a 3rd bracelet as a result of her two boys have a buddy staying with them.
“I stated, oh gosh, I’ve to win a bracelet for you, too.”
That third bracelet will not be coming within the $10k Omaha Hello-Lo. She was eradicated on Day 2. But it surely seems she’ll have lots extra probabilities earlier than the summer time ends.
