Nikita Luther - Poker Player

Nikita Luther is one of the pioneers in the Indian professional poker circuit. She is one of the first and few women poker players to win a bracelet in the world famous international poker tournament of World Series of Poker in the year 2018.

Nikita Luther Biography

Nikita Luther, poker player, belongs from the Indian capital state of Delhi. She grew up in the city and attended Sanskrit school to finish her schooling and went on to attain a bachelor’s degree for herself from the University of Delhi. The poker player currently lives in New Delhi.

Nikita Luther Poker Career

As revealed by her, the female acer learned the game of poker at a birthday party of one of her friends. And that event kind of set the tone and the discovery of a brand new passion for the game of poker. Ever since, Nikita Luther never looked back and has been partaking in the country’s most coveted live poker tournaments and leagues on both domestic and international space.

Nikita Luther Poker Achievements

In mid February of the year 2017, Nikita Luther claimed the team event tournament of the Macau Poker Cup along with her co-player, Raghav Bansal. This event cemented her picture of glory in the Indian poker circuit by forging history to become the first ever Indian female to win an global poker tournament. Later than year in the month of June, Luther grabbed the 5th position in the Aria Poker Classic Main Event held at the Aria Resort & Casino situated along the Las Vegas Strip and won a prize money of $65,000.

During this running season, her successful streak took her riding across the strip all the way to the premises of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) where she made her debut appearance. WSOP 2017 was hosted that year at the Rio All-Suite Hotel and Casino of the Vegas Strip. Luther cashed in prize winnings at three different No Limit Hold’em poker tournaments.

It was the ensuing season of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in the year 2018 where Nikita Luther grabbed the victory seat of the WSOP tag event along with German Italian poker player, Giuseppe Pantaleo. With this event, Nikita Luther poker player wasn’t just any run of the mill player any more. She secured her first ever bracelet of the world’s most coveted poker event and additionally won and shared a staggering prize money of approximately 175,000 US dollars.

In June 2019 next year, Luther reached the final table of the Aria Poker Classic’s Zynga Poker WPT 500 and settled for second place with a prize money of $110,000. Therefore, to sum it up for now, Nikita Luther has bagged a total of more than 360,000 US dollars simply by following her passion down to the wire and living it up in the world’s most coveted seats at the live poker tables. Luther recently participated at the 52nd 2021 Annual World Series of Poker’s Tag Team event of No Limit Texas Hold’em and secured 15th Position. Her personal best live cash earning has been $109,300 and she currently ranks 17th on India All Time Money List. The poker pro has been making her presence felt across the domestic and international felts and has no plans to press pause to her poker run any time soon.