{"id":106873,"date":"2019-06-13T07:19:09","date_gmt":"2019-06-13T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/?p=106873"},"modified":"2019-06-13T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2019-06-13T16:01:45","slug":"poker-player-liliya-novikova-found-dead-from-suspected-electrocution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.casino.org\/news\/poker-player-liliya-novikova-found-dead-from-suspected-electrocution\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Russia\u2019s Most Beautiful Poker Player\u2019 Liliya Novikova Found Dead from Suspected Electrocution"},"content":{"rendered":"

Russia\u2019s Channel 5 has reported the death of poker player and esports star Liliya Novikova, aka \u201cLiay5,\u201d who was found dead in her bathroom in Moscow on Wednesday, apparently from a massive electric shock.<\/p>\n

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Liliya Novikova, known to her fans as Liay5, was found dead in her Moscow apartment on Wednesday in what appears to have been a tragic accident. (Image: Pikdo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The 26-year-old, dubbed \u201cRussia\u2019s most beautiful poker player\u201d by Russian media, was a former PokerStars<\/a> Pro and avid Twitch streamer<\/a>, with a large following in her home country that made her the most popular female poker streamer on the platform, with almost 25,000 followers.<\/p>\n

According to Channel 5, Novikova had been home alone at the apartment she shares with her parents on the\u00a0affluent Kutuzovsky Prospekt in central Moscow. Her parents became concerned when they were unable to reach her on the phone and asked a neighbour, who had keys to the apartment, to check on her. The neighbor found her body on the bathroom floor.<\/p>\n

Accidental Death<\/strong><\/h2>\n

While a post-mortem has yet to be completed, investigators said the absence of signs of violence on Novikova\u2019s body suggested her death was accidental. Preliminary checks on the body suggested signs of electric shock trauma.<\/p>\n

She was believed to have been blow-drying her hair in the moments leading up to her death and reports have suggested the hairdryer may have been faulty. It\u2019s believed she may have banged her head as a result of the electric shock.<\/p>\n

Who Was Liay5?<\/h2>\n

Novikova had a first-class degree in Engineering from Moscow Bauman State Technical University but shunned offers of highly paid jobs within the engineering sector to focus on her skills as a games player, according to media reports.<\/p>\n

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By the age of 22, she had gained PokerStars \u201cSupernova Elite\u201d status, the highest ranking on the site, where she was a specialist in hyper-turbo six-max sit-and-gos.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Her biggest dent on the live tournament scene was when she won the EPT Prague NLH Deepstack event in 2015 for $54,068.<\/p>\n

Prior to her success as a poker player, she played video games such as Dota2 professionally. As well as being a much-loved poker tutor on social media, Novikova was an accomplished cyclist, snowboarder, rower and boxer and ran her own online shop for poker-themed clothing.<\/p>\n

Second Tragedy in Two Years<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Novikova\u2019s death is the second tragedy to hit women\u2019s poker in as many years. In November 2017, Emma Fryer, a 42-year-old British mother of two, who was predicted to do great things on the felt, was killed in a car crash in the Czech Republic.<\/p>\n

Fryer — nicknamed \u201cThe Queen of Poker\u201d — was in the Czech Republic to compete in the World Series of Poker Europe, when the vehicle she was a passenger in was involved in an accident in heavy fog.<\/p>\n

She suffered multiple injuries from the impact of the crash and died in the hospital three days later.<\/p>\n

The driver was prosecuted for causing death by dangerous driving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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