Seven-Year-Old Poker Prodigy Talks Big, Plays Bigger

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Seven-year-old Alexa Fisher is already winning money from family and friends with her poker abilities. She may not be able to qualify for the WSOP until 2024, but 7-year-old Alexa Fisher is already making waves in the poker community. The second grader from Texas seems to have all the skills to take on the big shots at the tables, and the attitude to boot. In a recent piece in Card Player Magazine, the pint-sized poker prodigy declared: "I know how to shuffle and deal the cards, raise, check, fold, and bluff. I also know how to play deuce-to-seven lowball, H.O.R.S.E., and badugi. I can now play any poker game with the best poker players in the world!"

How did someone so young get hooked on poker? She first started paying attention to the game on TV when she was just three years old. Her dad had been using a deck of playing cards to help the youngster learn her numbers and basic counting and one thing led to another, giving the world a five-year-old that understood Texas Hold 'Em poker's rules. She's spent the last two years learning every game that's played at the World Series of Poker.

The straight-A math junkie recently played in a $30 buy-in "Homes For Pets" tournament in Schertz, Texas against hundreds of other players and outlasted over half the field before being knocked out. Reports form the event say that she was professional and smart, even bluffing her way into a few pots. Her father described her temperament at the tables: "She goes in level-headed, and she leaves level-headed."

She's not able to play in casinos yet, but she's already started a bank account for winnings from games at home against her family. Throw in the fact that she chose to go to the World Series of Poker for the family vacation this summer, and you've got someone who we'll all need to be looking out for in a few years.