Liv Boeree–what keeps her up at night and what she values
January 19th, 2012
When you win an EPT title your world changes overnight; and if you’re Liv Boeree, the whole world comes knocking at your door. Or at least that’s the way it seemed when she described it to me recently. Liv’s win at the PokerStars 2010 EPT San Remo netted her € 1,250,000 and changed her life forever. It also brought her into the public limelight in a way she hadn’t imagined. PokerStars was the first to come calling, but there were so many others that her phone “rang off the wall” for days. The BBC, the Daily Mail, and others kept her going at warp speed, just fielding all the calls. “I was in national newspapers and magazines,” she said to me more than once, as if she still has a hard time believing it. “