Shortly after her first birthday, Lieu was brought to America by her parents, Liz was created in Colorado by her older sister.
Lieu began playing Chinese poker at 13 years of age with her friends and immediately fell in love with playing cards, at 18, she began to play her games on her own with a friend when both of them were playing Hold'em and Pai Gow .
Lieu was primarily a player limit Texas Hold'em cash games for years, until her friend John Phan encouraged her to enter the 2005 World Series of Poker. Phan encouraged her to enter the $ 1,500 no-limit hold'em event, which she finished in fifth place, earning more than $ 168,000 in prize money, she was also ranked 12th in the $ 5,000 no-limit hold'em event the same year and won in that tournament three thousand U.S. dollars as well.
A few months later, Liz did 4th in the $ 2,500 No Limit Hold'em event and 16th in two other tournaments at the top of the 2005 Bellagio Festa al Lago tournament, taking home over $ 80,000 in less than a week of work.
She went on to finish in the top ten at the World Poker Finals, Five Diamond World Poker Classic and Gold Strike World Poker Open, her first tournament win came in 2006 LA Poker Classic at Commerce Casino, where she won the limit hold'em event in 1000 billion, her second victory in a tournament came when he won the same event in 2007.
In 2006, Liz was honored by the WSOP and ESPN as a Final Table Grand Marshall along with Johnny Chan.
In the introduction to Nolan Dalla, she was referred to as the favorite woman to win a WSOP bracelet in 2007, she has won more than $ 590,000 in live tournaments so far.
