Jennifer Harman Traniello

Jennifer Harman Traniello was born November 29, 1964 in Reno, Nevada and started playing poker at eight years of age.

In 2000, Jennifer won her first World Series of Poker bracelet at the No Limit Deuce to Seven Lowball Event at a final table that also included Lyle Berman and Steve Zolotow. It was the first time she played that game prior to the event, but she received a five minute tutoring session from Howard Lederer before playing. She won her second WSOP bracelet in 2002 at the $5K Limit Hold 'em event. She is the only woman to hold two bracelets in WSOP open events. She also admits feeling like being a woman is an advantage at the table, since her opponents tend to underestimate her.

In 2004, Harman took a year away from poker to have her second kidney transplant. Problems with her kidneys, shared by her sister and mother, who died from the same illness when Harman was 17 - had plagued her since her childhood. After receiving a second kidney through organ donation, Harman founded Creating Organ Donation Awareness (CODA), a non-profit organization to raise money and awareness for the cause.

Jennifer has finished 4th at the World Poker Tour Five-Diamond World Poker Classic, 5th in the inaugural Professional Poker Tour event, and 2nd in the WSOP Circuit Championship Event at the Rio.

Harman is the only woman who is a regular player in the "Big Game", the high-stakes cash game at the Bellagio. She was also an active participant in "The Corporation", a group of high stakes poker players who played Andy Beal for limits of up to $100,000-$200,000.

Jennifer has appeared on the GSN series High Stakes Poker as well as on the NBC series Poker After Dark, where she won Week 8's tournament. In 2007 Harman finished as runner up in the inaugural World Series of Poker Europe. She lost in the HORSE event to Thomas Bihl.

Jennifer Harman is also a member of "Team Full Tilt" at Full Tilt Poker.

Fun Facts:

• Authored the limit hold'em chapter for Super System II.
• Worked odd jobs, mostly as a cocktail waitress, before she decided she wanted to make a career out of playing poker, at the age of 21.
• Jennifer is married to stylist Marco Traniello.
• Close friends with fellow player Daniel Negreanu.
• Graduated from the University of Nevada, Reno.