{{Short description|Spanish poker player (born 1983)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2025}} {{Infobox poker player |name=Leo Margets |nickname= |image=Leo Margets 2019.jpg |caption= Margets in 2019 |birth_place=[[Barcelona]], Spain |birth_date={{birth date and age|1983|08|10}} |hometown= |updated = 01 August 2025 |wsop bracelet count=1 |wsop final tables=3 |wsop money finishes=33 |wsop main event best finish rank=7th |wsop main event best finish year=2025 |wpt titles= |wpt final tables= |wpt money finishes= |ept titles= |ept final tables= |ept money finishes=15 }}
'''Leonor Margets Perez''' (born August 10, 1983) is a Spanish professional poker player from [[Barcelona, Spain]]. In [[2025 World Series of Poker|2025]], she became the first woman in 30 years to make the final table of the World Series of Poker Main Event. She also won a WSOP bracelet in [[2021 World Series of Poker|2021]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Sofen|first=Jon|title=2025 WSOP Main Event Final Table Profile: Leo Margets|url=https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/07/2025-wsop-main-event-final-table-profile-leo-margets-49170.htm|publisher=PokerNews.com|date=July 14, 2025|accessdate=August 1, 2025}}</ref>
Margets graduated from the [[University of Roehampton]] in [[London]] and has a master's degree in Communication Business Management. Before her poker career, she worked at [[IMG (company)|IMG]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Leo Margets profile|url=https://www.winamax.es/en/team-winamax_the-pros_leo-margets?LICENSE=ES|publisher=Winamax|accessdate=August 1, 2025}}</ref>
Margets finished in 27th place in the [[2009 World Series of Poker|2009 WSOP]] Main Event. At the [[2018 World Series of Poker|2018 WSOP]], she finished runner-up in the $1,000 Double Stack No-Limit Hold'em event. Margets won her first [[WSOP bracelet]] in the $1,500 No-Limit Hold'em Closer in 2021, defeating a field of 1,903 to earn $376,000; as of 2025, she remains the last woman to win an open-field event at the WSOP in [[Las Vegas, Nevada]].<ref>{{cite web|last=Richards|first=Connor|title=Leo Margets Wins First Bracelet and $376,850 in Event #83: $1,500 The Closer|url=https://www.pokernews.com/news/2021/11/leo-margets-wsop-bracelet-win-40313.htm|publisher=PokerNews.com|date=November 21, 2021|accessdate=August 2, 2025}}</ref>
In 2025, Margets made it through a field of 9,735 to make the WSOP Main Event final table. She was only the second woman in WSOP history to make the final table, and the first since [[Barbara Enright]] in [[1995 World Series of Poker|1995]]. Beginning in fifth place on the leaderboard, she was eventually eliminated in seventh place when her pair of aces lost to Kenny Hallaert's rivered flush. She earned $1,500,000, the largest score by a woman in the Main Event.<ref>{{cite web|last=Pajich|first=Bob|title=Leo Margets First Woman to Make World Series of Poker Main Event Final Table in Three Decades|url=https://www.cardschat.com/news/leo-margets-first-woman-to-make-world-series-of-poker-main-event-final-table-in-three-decades/|publisher=CardsChat.com|date=July 14, 2025|accessdate=August 1, 2025}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|last=Thomas|first=Eliot|title=Spade on the River Ends History-Maker Margets' WSOP Main Event Dreams|url=https://www.pokernews.com/news/2025/07/2025-wsop-main-event-leo-margets-7th-place-49200.htm|publisher=PokerNews.com|date=July 15, 2025|accessdate=August 1, 2025}}</ref>
Outside of poker, Margets competed on the Spanish version of [[Survivor (franchise)|Survivor]], ''[[Supervivientes]]'', in 2014. She also won the Spanish version of ''[[The Traitors]]'' in 2023. Margets published a book, ''Play Your Cards Well'', in 2017, and has completed 10 marathons.<ref>{{cite web|last=Chaffin|first=Sean|title=Meet the Players at the 2025 WSOP Main Event Final Table|url=https://www.pgt.com/news/meet-the-players-at-the-2025-wsop-main-event-final-table|publisher=Poker Central|date=July 14, 2025|accessdate=August 1, 2025}}</ref>
As of 2025, Margets' total live tournament earnings exceed $3,590,000.
==World Series of Poker bracelets== {| class="wikitable" !Year !Tournament !Prize (US$) |- |[[2021 World Series of Poker|2021]] |$1,500 The Closer No-Limit Hold'em |$376,850 |}
==External links== *[https://pokerdb.thehendonmob.com/player.php?a=r&n=105769 Hendon Mob profile] *[https://www.wsop.com/players/10678344/ WSOP.com profile] *[https://www.winamax.es/en/team-winamax_the-pros_leo-margets?LICENSE=ES Winamax profile]
==References== {{reflist}}
{{2020s WSOP bracelet winners}}
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