Lieu started playing Chinese Poker at the age of 13 with her friends and immediately fell in love with card games. At 18, she started running her own home games with a friend where they played both Hold’em and Pai Gow.

Lieu was primarily a limit Texas hold 'em cash games player for a number of years, until her friend John Phan encouraged her to enter the 2005 World Series of Poker. Phan encouraged her to enter the $1500 no-limit hold'em event, she ended up in fifth place winning over $168,000 in prize money. She went on to place 12th in the $5000 no-limit hold'em event the same year and cashed in the $3000 tournament as well.

Shana Hiatt was born in 1975 on the East Coast, and was raised mostly in Tabernacle New Jersey, near Philadelphia. Shana spent her early childhood years traveling around the country as an "Army brat" with her parents and one younger brother. Traveling would be a recurring theme in Shana's life.

In high school, Shana would prove to be a stellar athlete. Shana was a champion lacrosse and field hockey player, not to mention the hottest school cheerleader After graduating high school, Shana enrolled in New Jersey's Burlington County College in order to study broadcast journalism, pursuing her early childhood dream of television broadcasting.

Tilly is most known for her appearance in Woody Allen’s Bullets Over Broadway, in which Tilly was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She has also had roles as the wife of a murdered Italian Mafia son in Bella Mafia and as the lesbian lover to Gina Gershon in Bound. Tilly has also done a lot of voice-over work including roles such as the killer doll Tiffany in Child’s Play, and as the voice of the Griffin Family’s neighbor Bonnie in the hit TV show, Family Guy.