- Leo Margets is the primary lady to succeed in the WSOP Major Occasion ultimate desk in 30 years
- A poker professional from Spain, Margets was the final lady standing within the 2009 Major Occasion, ending twenty seventh
- A member of the Spanish Poker Participant Corridor of Fame, Margets gained a WSOP bracelet within the $1,500 The Nearer occasion in 2021
The 2025 World Collection of Poker (WSOP) Major Occasion is all the way down to its ultimate desk of 9 gamers. And one in every of them, Leo Margets, is the primary feminine to safe a seat there in 30 years.
Leo Margets, born 41 years in the past in Barcelona, is an achieved poker professional, writer, motivational speaker, strategic marketing consultant, and actuality TV star. (Picture: WSOP)
Margets, a poker professional from Spain, broke by a subject of 9,735 gamers to rank fifth in total chips when the Major Occasion resumes Tuesday. All 9 gamers are assured to stroll away with a minimum of $1 million.
Kenny Hallaert, decrease left, tweeted this selfie final evening of himself with Margets and their seven ultimate desk opponents. (Picture: X/@SpaceyFCB)
“It’s so unreal,” Margets mentioned in an interview with PokerGO. “Proper now, it’s like a dream. It means a lot, like how fortunate I’m to dwell this.”
Margets is the primary lady to succeed in the ultimate 9 since Barbara Enright, who turned the primary in event historical past to do it in 1995. Enright raked in $114,180 for ending fifth in 1995.
She’s Received the Nuts
Born Leonor Margets in Barcelona 41 years in the past, the achieved poker professional can be an writer, motivational speaker, strategic marketing consultant, and actuality TV star.
Margets found poker in 2007 throughout a date with an outdated boyfriend who launched her to an area Sit & Go sport. Initially an off-the-cuff observer, she turned captivated by the sport’s strategic and psychological depth.
After incomes a grasp’s in administration and communications from IE Enterprise Faculty in Madrid, Margets briefly labored for the expertise administration firm Worldwide Administration Group earlier than leaving to strive her hand at skilled poker following early successes.
How the chips stack going into the ultimate desk on Tuesday. (Picture: Microsoft Copilot)
In 2008, solely a yr after she started enjoying, she gained the College Poker Championship in Barcelona, incomes a sponsorship from 888poker.
Her poker breakthrough got here on the 2009 WSOP Major Occasion, the place she completed twenty seventh out of greater than 6,500 gamers, incomes $352,832 and the Final Lady Standing title. This achievement, at age 26, branded her a rising star.
In 2021, Margets gained her first WSOP bracelet in Occasion #83: $1,500 The Nearer, incomes $376,850. She defeated Alex Kulev heads-up in a subject of 1,903 entrants, turning into the one lady to win an open occasion in that yr’s WSOP.
That very same yr, she was inducted into the Spanish Poker Corridor of Fame alongside fellow Winamax teammate Adrián Mateos.
With greater than $2 million in dwell event earnings over 121 recorded cashes, in response to the Hendon Mob Poker Database, she ranks amongst Spain’s elite poker gamers.
Past the Felt
Margets can be an achieved writer and media persona who has written or co-written three books. Her newest, revealed in 2017, explores how poker’s psychological and mathematical ideas could be utilized to decision-making in life and enterprise.
She often speaks at conferences and seminars, emphasizing resilience, threat administration, and private progress.
Margets can be a actuality tv star. In 2014, she competed on “Supervivientes” (the Spanish model of “Survivor”), and in 2023, she gained the primary season of “Traitors España” alongside boxer Joana Pastrana.
It goes with out saying that Margets will make extra poker historical past than she’s already made if she claims the Major Occasion bracelet and $10 million first-place prize.
