Online poker room partypoker announced on Friday that is has signed Australian Jackie Glazier as its newest sponsored pro. Glazier wore her team colors for the first time this weekend at the Asia Pacific Poker Tour Melbourne stop at the Crown Casino.
In the notice posted on partypoker’s blog, Glazier said
I am proud to join the partypoker team of ambassadors and am extremely excited about the opportunities I see for us in Australia and surrounding territories. I have been closely monitoring the progress partypoker has been making over recent months and look forward to helping them to grow in the Australian market that I know so well. I am confident that together our passion will help us to expand the game of poker in my country. I am looking forward to announcing some games and promotions over the next few weeks that will offer great value to the Australian poker community.
Glazier, who uses the screenname “JACKSTARPARTY” on partypoker, will stream weekly home games (the online type) on party’s Twitch channel, https://www.twitch.tv/partypokertv.
The charismatic Glazier has live tournament results dating back nearly a decade, but it was her deep run in the 2013 World Series of Poker Main Event that really brought her notoriety. Glazier finished 31st in that tournament – she was the “last woman standing” – earning nearly $230,000. Her largest cash came a year earlier: a second place finish in the 2012 WSOP $3,000 No-Limit Hold’em event in which she pocketed $459,000. Though a bigger cash and a better result in terms of finishing position, it did not bring her the attention that the Main Event run did.
All told, Glazier has won more than $1.3 million live tournaments in her career.
Glazier was previously signed with 888poker, cutting ties with the site in June.
In an interview with CalvinAyre.com around that same, Glazer explained that she had experienced poker burnout that was affecting her well-being:
For the past 7 years I have placed far too much emphasis on my results on the table and how that has directly impacted my personal self-worth. I got so caught up in being a “poker player” that it consumed my entire identity. Every poker player will experience a downswing but as my results plummeted so did my self-worth.
I fought hard to stay positive, but after the Aussie Millions finished at the start of this year, I just felt so disappointed and disheartened. I decided to take a month off and try and shake off the negativity I was feeling, but I just ended up feeling more lost.
As such, she decided to pass on the WSOP this year, taking the opportunity to relax and recharge:
I know that I am missing opportunities that we do not have here in Australia by not going so I have feelings of regret and also feel a little guilty. Once Jamie and I made the decision to stay home this year, I felt an overwhelming sense of relief. Ultimately I knew it would be difficult for me to bring my ‘A-game’ to the long gruelling series this year and I needed to put my well being as the number one priority.