Lucille Cailly

Lucille Cailly quit poker in 2013, according to her, it was one of the only two things she was any good at. The second being ‘snorting large amounts of cocaine.’ In her retirement-cum-rehab period she has let the (poker) monkey saddle up once or twice, having cashed in a charity event at the WPT in London in 2015. Despite her time off, Lucille is ranked 24th in the all time tournament cash leaderboard for France on the Hendon mob.

She took up poker originally in 2007 when her housemates started holding weekly tournaments in their common room. She then found herself doing live EPT and WPT updates after a chance meeting in Vegas drew her in the to world of professional poker. 

She had fled to Vegas on a whim to put a good few thousand miles and one of the seven seas between her and her recent break-up. Manuel Bevand, poker pro, and her friend was wandering the airport when she got in and she followed him down the rabbit hole, initially as a journalist, but increasingly as a player.

She had a couple of minor cashes in EPT events in Deauville (2010,2012) and a 2nd finish in the €1,350 Marrakech Poker Open (2009). But 2012 changed her life when she found herself heads up in the €10,000 EPT Championship in Monte Carlo, ultimately taking the runner-up prize of €1,050,000. 

Her Monte Carlo finnish is her biggest cash to date and makes up the larger portion of her $1,547,205 in winnings as at August 2017. Nowadays she is more likely to be found treading the boards as a stand up comic, talking about poker, drugs and being French. But if she does  decide to come back to poker for serious, we can expect big things from her.