Tila Nguyen was born in Singapore in 1981. Her family immigrated to Houston, Texas, when Tila was very young. Tila was born a trouble maker. She was sent from boarding school to boarding school, tried free casino play and getting home after earning casino bonus, until she was old enough to live on her own. When Tila was 18 she decided to move to Hollywood, with the dream to become famous.
She was approached by Playboy magazine to pose nude when she was roaming in a mall. She refused the offer to only eventually accept a few years later. Tila appeared in Playboy magazine in April 2002 and was the first Asian Cyber Girl of the month. In September of 2003 Tila joined myspace under the name of Tila Tequila. Her page has been viewed over 50 million times. Since then she has had a whirlwind of achievements.
Tila was #88 in Maxim magazines Hot 100 list. She is a successful singer, her self-released tracks have been played over 56 million times on her myspace page. She was in the recent film 'I know pronounce you Chuck and Larry' and is currently filming a movie due out in the autumn of 2008. 
Erica Schoenberg is an American professional blackjack and poker player. She is a former model, personal trainer, and professional volleyball player. Schoenberg received professional blackjack training from a member of the MIT Blackjack Team. She has gone on to compete in the World Series of Blackjack.
Schoenberg is also a professional poker player and placed 16th in the World Poker Tour $25,000 Championship - No Limit Texas hold'em and third in the 2007 World Series of Poker $1,500 no limit hold 'em. She also appeared in the Season 4 WPT Ladies Night Event along with Jennifer Tilly and four other female players and play at online casinos. In 2007 Schoenberg won the $2,500 No Limit Hold'em Mandalay Bay Poker Championship winning $105,875. She also competed in the Ultimate Blackjack Tour, a televised 10 week series airing on CBS.
Schoenberg has a sponsorship agreement with Full Tilt Poker. Schoenberg's fiancé is high stakes poker player David Benyamine. As of 2008, her total live poker tournament winnings exceed $630,000.
By the age of 14, Evelyn Ng also called "Evybabee" was playing pool for money at the local pool halls in her home town of Toronto, and by the age of 17 she was dealing and playing casino poker in various establishments. She soon met another native of Toronto, Daniel Negreanu, who tutored her and helped her hone her poker skills. After Evelyn’s first visit to Las Vegas at the age of 21, she decided that she wanted to pursue the ‘poker life’. She took jobs dealing in land based and online casinos, and she credits this experience for teaching her the abilities to read people and identify tells.
Evelyn Ng had not played much in the way of tournaments, sticking mainly to cash games, but in 2003 she entered the WPT Ladies Night event and placed second against the top women players in the world, such as Annie Duke and Jennifer Harman. This seemed to inspire her and she went on to place 11th at the 2005 Borgata Poker Open and made the final table at the Calvin Ayre Wild Card Poker Tournament in 2006.
She was born in 1975 in Toronto and is currently residing California. She can found playing online at Bodog when she is not playing live games on the pro circuit. Evelyn Ng joined Bodog as a spokeswoman/endorser in 2006.
Serinda Swan is an actress and a model and is the face of Absolute poker at online casino. She was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, on July 11, 1984. She has residences in both Vancouver and Hawaii, but her career has her constantly on the move.Her acting career consists mostly of tv commercials and guest appearances on television shows. 
In 2007, her modeling career really took off. She was working as a model for Dorinha Jeans Wear when she beat out 75,000 other contestants to become “the new face of Guess Watches,” propelling her to near super-model status. She will now be prominently featured in a worldwide Guess marketing campaign. You will also see her appear in commercials and promotional videos for Absolute Poker, along with other promotional work she does for the site. She has teamed up with Absolute Poker, to create a new website, www.serindaswan.com which will launch in early 2008.
Besides being an actress and a model, she is also a casino poker player. Although relatively new to the poker world, she has been taking her poker career seriously. Besides being a regular online player, she has attended a “poker boot camp,” and received impromptu lessons from the likes of Mark Seif and Phil Hellmuth. Her game of choice is No-Limit Holdem. She considers her poker game a work in progress, and admits she needs “practice, practice, practice.”
As the most experienced player on the list, Cycalona “Clonie” Gowen was helping to legitimize females in casino poker long before the poker explosion. With almost two dozen live tournament cashes under her belt, the former beauty pageant winner is one of the most recognizable faces in the poker world, regardless of gender. 
Cyclona “Clonie” Gowen grew up in Kiowa, Oklahoma. She was a high school jock, as she was on a state championship basketball team and was ranked 7th in the high jump. Clonie proved she had the whole package, beauty, brains, and athletics, by winning Miss Teen Oklahoma at the age of 15.
Clonie is a relative newcomer to poker. She entered the poker scene by winning the $25,000 Belagio WPT Championship seat at the World Poker Tour Costa Rica Classic, where she had a Top 10 finish. Gowen recently won the 2003 WPT Ladies’ Night. Gowen’s success goes beyond the poker table since she is a spokesperson and advisor for an online casino poker gaming site and writes a column for a poker magazine. Clonie, a mother of two, lives in Dallas, Texas and enjoys mountain biking, and scuba diving.
The little-known actress, who has appeared on the big screen in Girls Gone Psycho and Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, turned plenty of heads when she competed in the 2007 World Series of Poker. 
She got plenty of much-deserved face time during the ESPN broadcasts of the event.
