Liv Boeree: biography, poker victories and earnings

Biography and early years

Liv Boeree was born on July 18, 1984 in Hollingbourne, Kent, England. She studied physics with astrophysics at the University of Manchester, having previously attended Ashford School. Known as a guitarist, not a pianist, during her university studies she played lead guitar in the metal bands Dissonance and Nemhaim.

Poker career

Her first encounter with poker took place in 2005 on the reality show Ultimatepoker.com Showdown. In 2008 she won the Ladbrokes Poker European Ladies Championship $2,000 No Limit Hold’em, earning $42,000.

• She won a WSOP bracelet.
• She became champion of the European Poker Tour (EPT) in San Remo with a prize of €1,250,000.
• She is the only woman in poker history to have won both titles – EPT and WSOP.

Achievements, earnings and personal life

According to The Hendon Mob, her total live poker winnings amount to $6,699,290, with WSOP earnings of $3,376,096 and WPT earnings of $101,769 from five finishes. Net worth is estimated between $3 million and $6 million. Her YouTube channel @LivBoeree has 118,000 subscribers and 5,281,613 views, Instagram – 146,000 subscribers, X – 267,000 subscribers. In 2025 she married professional poker player Igor Kurganov at the Burning Man festival, and earlier, in 2022, she helped connect him with Elon Musk upon a WSJ podcast tip. After retiring in 2019, she returned in 2024 to the WSOP $25,000 + $1,000 Paradise Main Event, where she finished 4th and won $2,800,000.