As Alexa Fisher was showing interest in basic numbers, she ended up learning with a deck of cards. Being 3 years old, she noticed the relationship to the playing cards in hand and on TV, she wanted to “learn that game” Texas Hold’em. At 7 years old, already knowing every game played at the WSOP, Alexa was first identified as a prodigy by Max Shapiro’s article “Alexa the Poker Prodigy”, which ended up being a full page published article in Card Player Magazine.
Alexa has played in several poker charity events which she was featured during her poker tournament debut for the Schertz Humane Society, Homes for Pets. She was publicly featured during the KENS 5 television show Great Day SA demonstrating her poker playing skills. While visiting Las Vegas this year during her summer vacation from 1st grade, Alexa went to the Rio in hopes to meet her favorite poker players. So many of the top players wanted to meet Alexa that she ended up having 5 hats and 4 shirts with autographs to show for including tons of pictures. While attending the 2010 WSOP, many professionals considered Alexa “their lucky charm” and during breaks she often was visited by players who wanted to say hello.
Among those players of Alexa’s favorites that she got to meet included Phil Hellmuth, Pamela, Todd, and Doyle Brunson, and Johnny Chan. She met several of this year’s bracelets winners including Huck Seed, Vanessa Hellabuyck, Gavin Smith, Men “The Master” Nguyen, Dutch Boyd, Phil Ivey, Sammy Farha and Michael Mizrachi. She also met the 2010 WSOP Last Woman Standing winner Breeze Zuckerman. To top everything off, poker legend Barbara Enright took Alexa to Serendipity 3 which she treated Alexa to her first ever “Double Frrrozen Hot Chocolate”.
