26-Year-Old Poker Streamer Liliya ‘Liay5’ Novikova Passes Away in Tragic Home Accident

Liliya Novikova
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  • Attreyee Khasnabis June 14, 2019
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The poker community was hit by the tragic news of Russian poker player and Twitch streamer Liliya Novikova’s (cover image) untimely demise yesterday.

The 26-year-old, who used to live with her parents, was discovered by an elderly neighbor in her bath. The daily Moskovsky Komsomolets (MK) reported that the neighbor was a longstanding friend of Novikova’s parents and had a key to the flat. He entered the flat after receiving an emergency call from Novikova’s parents. Reports suggest she suffered a fatal electric shock while using a hair dryer in the flat. Russia’s Investigative Committee (SK) confirmed that she had been electrocuted. There was no evidence of foul play with all reports suggesting that it was an unfortunate accident.

 

Remembering Liliya ‘Liay5’ Novikova

Though known mostly as an online poker player, Novikova’s poker record shows $98,904 in total live earnings at the time of her passing with her biggest live score coming in the €2,200 NLHE Eureka High Roller at the EPT Prague in 2015, which she won for €49,440 ($54,068).

She was a popular Twitch streamer with 24,626 followers on her Twitch channel – ‘Liay5’. She was even signed on by online poker giant, PokerStars, as a member of its Team Online in 2015. In fact, she was just 22 years old at that point and had already achieved Supernova status on PokerStars.

You can watch her Twitch videos here.

Novikova had an engineering degree from Moscow’s prestigious Bauman University, and besides poker, she enjoyed various sports, including rowing and snowboarding.

 

Poker Community Reacts

The worldwide poker fraternity was shocked by the news of Novikova’s death and took to Twitter to express their grief and offer their condolences.

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