Karan Johar’s reality show, The Traitors, had become a guilty pleasure show for all, where everyone was hooked. The Amazon Prime Video show recently crowned its two winners- Uorfi Javed and Nikita Luther, who beat comedian, Harsh Gujral. The show became interesting with each episode, and Nikita ensured of reaching the finale mark and winning the prize money of Rs. 70.05 lakh. She was one of the star players of the show and is from Delhi. Nikita is also a professional Poker player.
Nikita, aged 34, attended Sanskriti School and then earned her bachelor’s degree from the renowned University of Delhi. Slowly and steadily, as she started playing poker, she did not understand when she fell in love with the game and then earned her first official title as a poker player after winning the Indian Poker Championship.
Nikita Luther had won a gold medal at The World Series of Poker (WSOP) in 2018, hailed from an Army background
Poker has always been called a man’s game. Delhi girl, Nikita, broke the stereotype and became one of the finest poker players of India. She won a gold bracelet and recorded history at The World Series of Poker, which is also called the Olympic gold medal, which took place in Las Vegas in 2018. Nikita was born into a military family, and till her sixth class, she shifted cities. Delhi became her permanent base after that, and she got introduced to poker by Zynga. It is a US-based gaming company that made Nikita curious. From that time, there was no stopping Nikita as she then won the Macau Poker Cup back in 2017. It was a team event, and then Nikita earned the fifth position in the Aria Poker Classic Main Event. She also became the brand ambassador of Natural8 in India which is Asia’s online Poker room. Nikita, apart from her love for sports, is also an avid traveller.
Nikita Luther shares Poker and The Traitors show are parallelly connected
Nikita reportedly is the first and only lady to win a World Series of Poker (WSOP) bracelet and has made her name worldwide in the poker world. Apart from being the lead of India’s national poker team, making strategies for the game, her journey has been inspiring as decision making and knowing human behaviour in this game is important. She drew parallels between the game and the reality show and shared that:
“It must have been quite evident in my approach to the game that I’m always an observer first. Silence is underrated — it tells you more than noise ever will. But when I’m sure someone’s lying, I don’t back down. I may not be the loudest, but I speak with intent. My strategy was to stay adaptable and act when it mattered.”
Nikita Luther admits to playing her game in The Traitors observantly
Nikita also revealed that Poker is essentially a long game of navigating uncertainty. It’s about reading silence, watching patterns, and knowing when to trust the gut. She in the interview also mentioned that the training of the game brings in calmness, stillness in the chaos. She shared that inside the show, the stakes were different, but the need to stay grounded in your perception felt familiar. She revealed that her approach to playing the game was by becoming an observer. Nikita noted that silence was always underrated, as it spoke more than noise would ever do. Her strategy was to always be adaptable. In her words:
“On The Traitors, it felt like an extension of that world — alliances instead of hands, suspicion instead of bluffs. In poker, people don’t always lie with words. They lie with breath patterns, hesitation, or too much eye contact. I’ve spent years learning to decode that. On The Traitors, I watched what people weren’t saying. Sometimes it wasn’t the person pointing fingers, but the one staying too quiet after a name was dropped. Bluff detection is about noticing small shifts in behaviour.”
What do you think about The Traitor winner, Nikita Luther, who is an ace Poker player?
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