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Poker Hall of Famer Jennifer Harman was a mainstay and fan favorite on televised poker shows during the 2000s. She's stepped away from the limelight in recent years, but high-stakes poker remains a regular part of her life.
The two-time World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet winner is back at the WSOP this summer with a "positive" mindset, hoping to win her first bracelet since the pre-Moneymaker era. Harman, a Las Vegas local, spoke to PokerNews on a Day 1 break in Event #9: $10,000 Omaha Hi-Lo 8 or Better Championship, her first event of the summer.
"You know, I'm in a really positive place right now. So, you know, I feel good about it," Harman said about potentially playing more bracelet events this summer than normal. "I miss it, you know. I love cash games, and I miss tournaments."
Harman said she's been playing "a ton of cash games," mostly in private games at Aria or Bellagio, two of the top poker rooms in Las Vegas. But it seems she might have that itch to grind some tournaments at the WSOP this year and chase her first bracelet since 2002.
A Poker Boom Era Superstar
Harman, who went into the Poker Hall of Fame in 2015 with fellow former Full Tilt Poker pro John Juanda, remembers the poker boom era fondly.
"High Stakes Poker was so much fun. I miss that. I miss it a lot. It was just, I was a beginner in no-limit hold'em. I still am because I play mixed games," Harman explained.
Harman appeared regulary on shows like High Stakes Poker and Poker After Dark, the two most prominent cash game shows in the 2000s. She also found herself occasionally at a televised or side feature table during World Series of Poker broadcasts on ESPN. During one of those WSOP episodes, in 2005, she was on the wrong end of one of the most infamous slowrolls in poker history.
Infamous Poker Slowroll
Harman had a full house on the river and had made a large bet to put her opponent, New York pro Cory Zeidman, all in. Zeidman rivered a one-outer for a straight flush and didn't snap-call. He instead, for some unknown reason, went into the tank to Hollywood before making the call to double-up and leave Harman short-stacked.
That hand has been played millions of times around poker circles. Decades later and Zeidman is currently serving a 46-month federal prison sentence following a Oct. 2025 guilty plea for wire fraud related to an illegal sports betting operation he ran. Does Harman consider Zeidman ending up in prison karma for the slowroll?
"No, it's not karma," she answered. "Maybe right at that second I get upset, but then I get over it really fast. I throw small tempur tantrums and then I'm done. Was I upset? Yeah, but once I had him all in and then he started the speech, I was like, okay, I'm done."
Harman said she had "people come up to me and say, you know, he meant to do that." She then told perhaps a lesser known story about the following year at the WSOP where the two again were seated at the same table.
"Day 1, very beginning of the tournament," she began. "He knocks me out, like 30 minutes. So, I'm out of the tournament, but I'm like steaming. And I go to Bellagio and I sit down and play. I take my big blind. It's PLO. I just think the cap was $125,000, and I just get it in three ways with bottom two. I'm up against top set and top straight, and we ran it twice. And both times I made runner-runner flush and won the pot."
"I just grabbed some racks and cashed out. So that like took care of my tilt."
Harman traditionally spends much of her summers chasing the big scores in cash games — mostly mixed games — at Bellagio like many of the high rollers. But she's still passionate about the World Series of Poker 21 years after that infamous slowroll.
"You know, my sons just pulled out my two bracelets a week ago, and they're feeling it," Harman said. "And, you know, and they're like, wow, these are heavy. And I said, one for you and one for your brother."
There's only one problem, she needs a third bracelet because her two boys have a friend staying with them.
"I said, oh gosh, I have to win a bracelet for you, too."
That third bracelet won't be coming in the $10k Omaha Hi-Lo. She was eliminated on Day 2. But it appears she'll have plenty more chances before the summer ends.
