Lily Newhouse took the poker fraternity by storm with her game play and interesting personality in PokerStars’ Big Game. She was on the brink of being the second Loose Cannon to be eliminated this season but made a comeback to put her name among the winners.
Newhouse, one of the two loose cannons for Season 3 of The Big Game on Tour, demonstrated the power of patience in poker. Despite facing tough situations and hands during the first four sessions, she kept her calm and waited for the right opportunities. Her patience paid off handsomely, as she emerged as the biggest winner after battling in over 150-hands. Newhouse finished with a stack of $105,800, securing a $55,800 profit over her initial $50k buy-in. According to the show’s rules, she gets to keep all her winnings, which she plans to use to build a pool.
Flush of Fortune: Lily Newhouse’s Comeback Story and Big Game Win
With a little under $50,000 in her stack and time running out, Newhouse took a do-or-die approach in the final 30 hands of the session. She started off strong, winning a decent-sized pot and edged into a small profit. Her turning point came when she straddled with 2c3c and faced Dave Krosky, who called with 9-7 off-suit. The flop brought her a flush draw, and by the turn, she had completed the flush. After a few bets and a raise, Krosky went all-in, and Newhouse made a quick call, resulting in a massive $110,000 pot for her. Despite running the river four times, Newhouse’s flush held, securing her a $60,000 profit. By the end of the session, she locked in a $55,800 win, making her the biggest winner, ahead of Maria Ho.
Although Lily Newhouse is portrayed as the ‘Loose Cannon,’ most people don’t know she has a decade of experience in poker. In this article, we will talk about Lily Newhouse’s poker journey and winnings.
Who is Lily Newhouse?
Lily Newhouse is an American professional poker player and an editor. She competed in PokerStars’ Big Game Season 2 as the ‘Loose Cannon,’ and also went on to win the Big Game Season 2 with a $55,800 profit.
Newhouse started playing poker in 2008. In the Big Game audition segment, in 2010, Newhouse traveled to Las Vegas to play in the World Series of Poker. She was 28 weeks pregnant at that time, and her water broke right before she was supposed to go home.
She gave birth to her son in Las Vegas and named him Ace. Since then, she never left Las Vegas and has been staying there playing poker, working, and taking care of her 14-year-old son as a single parent.
Lily Newhouse currently works for Advance Local Media as a Newspaper Editor. Besides this, Newhouse also has a YouTube channel where she streams online poker tournaments, as well as shares mindset videos.
In one episode of Big Game Season 2, Newhouse talks about defeating cancer. Newhouse was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018 when she was just 32 years old, which turned her life upside down. Despite difficulties, Newhouse wins another battle in her life. She talks about defeating cancer in a YouTube stream.
Poker Career – From Hating Poker Tournaments to Winning
Although Newhouse herself was said to have competed in the WSOP in 2010, her first cash-in tournaments came in 2012, where she finished 22nd in Heartland Poker Tour $1,650 Main Event for $2,821.
Newhouse won her first tournament in 2013 ARIA Resort’s $100 buy-in Nightly Event. She outlasted 85 players and earned $1,882. Newhouse’s first cash in the WSOP Circuit series came in 2013, where she earned $1,340 for 13th place finish in Event #2: $580 NLH Event.
That same year, she cashed in three WSOP events and walked away with $19,389. Two years later, in 2015, Newhouse entered the WSOP Main Event but ended up taking $46,890 for her 138th-place finish.
After 2015, Newhouse completely left the tournament action and focused only on live cash games. According to her, live tournaments are very hard to win. It takes so much time, which Newhouse doesn’t have.
She played live cash games until the pandemic, as most casinos closed their poker rooms. Which shifted her mind toward Online Poker. Even though Newhouse loves cash games, she doesn’t like online cash games.
Lily Newhouse then started her online poker journey by playing in WSOP online poker tournaments under the screen name “theslimshady.” In 2021, Newhouse took part in the WSOP Online Super Circuit, where she came 8th for $6,594. That same year, she made a 2nd place finish in WSOP Online Fall Super Circuit for $9,809.
In 2021, Lily Newhouse began taking tournaments seriously and focused on improving her game. Today, players have various options to improve their game, such as coaching, study tools, and more. Newhouse did the same and hired a coach, as well as studied tournaments and hands through GTO Wizard.
Although Newhouse didn’t make any significant impact on online poker tournaments, it helped ignite that tournament passion that Newhouse always has.
In 2023, Newhouse returned to live poker action and won her second-ever tournament in Wynn Casino’s $200 NLH Nightly Event for $4,340. That year, she won another nightly event and made 5 final table finishes for a total of $20k cash prize.
Newhouse began this year with winning a tournament in the Wynn Casino for $3,140. She also made a 3rd place finish in the World Series of Poker Online Circuit Event #2 for $13,191.
Lily Newhouse has a total career earnings of over $140k from both live and online poker tournaments. With the majority of the earnings coming from the World Series of Poker events.
What’s Next For the Loose Cannon Lily Newhouse?
Lily Newhouse emerged victorious in PokerStars’ latest Big Game with a profit of $55,800, so what’s next for the female poker pro?
In a recent podcast, Lily Newhouse made it clear that she can’t play multi-day tournaments as she is taking care of her 14-year-old son. She may do that in the future, but as of now, she will focus on playing single-day online tournaments.
You may soon find her grinding online tournaments or playing live tournaments at Wynn Casino.
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