Liliya Novikova

Introduced by PokerStars as a "feared - and fearless - six-max hyper-turbo sit-and-go player," Novikova met poker during her engineering and design studies at Russian technical university, and that "rekindled the love affair with family card games" that started back in her childhood. Liay5 as she became known on line gambling, started off casually, her journey in poker, playing turbo sit-and-goes and heads up, but over time hyper turbos became my game of choice. Falling in love with the speed and post-flop play. Her mission was to achieve the Supernova Elite status. Novikova also known to be a competitive and talented name in the world of professional video gamers, specifically in the PC game Defence of the Ancients. Novikova is the second player from the eSports galaxy to join PokerStars in less than a month, to its exclusive team of sponsored pro players. Novikova is the latest addition to Team PokerStars Pro Online. From Moscow she became the third member of Team Russia's part of the world's biggest poker room, as she joined 2008 World Series of Poker Main Event. With just under $100,000 in live tournament earnings, Novikova's poker career was mostly focused online. She was streaming her poker games regularly leading up to her unexpected death from accidental electrocution, with her latest stream posted just three days before on her Twitch channel, 'Liay5'. She had 24,626 followers on her Twitch channel alone. Outside of poker, Novikova also had an engineering degree from Moscow's Bauman University.