When confident poker pro Erik Sagstrom taunted the formidable women poker ace Liz Lieu by calling her a fish (an easy target) during a recent online game he may have bitten off a little more than he could comfortably chew.
Lieu immediately challenged him to a heads up clash, and the two poker pros developed a “Beauty and the Beast” element to the World Poker Tour World Championship finals which took place recently in Las Vegas .
Last weekend saw the grand denouement when Lieu beat her male opponent in a freeze-out series of three $200 000 matches at the new Venetian poker room, taking home a $600,000 paycheck.