Gabriela Hill plays online at Full Tilt Poker.

While Gabriela might describe herself as both a poker player and a poker television host and commentator, she is definitely the most recognizable poker television personality and an ambassador of poker to Spanish-speaking TV audiences in Latin America and the United States.

A veteran Mexican-American TV personality, Gabriela has 24 years of TV broadcasting experience as a Spanish-language news and sports anchor, reporter, and commentator.

Gabriela started out in television by hosting children’s programs in Mexico on Imevision (the present day Azteca 13).  She then moved to Texas to become a news anchor and reporter at Telemundo and Univision affiliates in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston TV markets for 8 years.

Having landed her first sports TV role in 1995 at Prime Deportiva (the present day FOX Sports en Español), Gabriela would soon become the first Spanish-language female sports reporter in the U.S. when she joined Univision Sports in 1996.  

At Univision, Gabriela was the sideline reporter for Major League Soccer (MLS) live telecasts and she was part of the Univision news team that won the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Award for Best Newscast in 1997.  Gabriela traveled more than 200,000 miles over 2 years to cover a different sports event each week, including the NFL Super Bowl, the Major League Baseball and National Basketball Association Playoffs and All-Star Games, and championship boxing matches.  She had the opportunity to interview one-of-a-kind sports icons including Michael Jordan, Cal Ripken Jr. and Brett Favre.

Moving up in her career, Gabriela landed in South Florida at start-up PanAmerican Sports Network (PSN), where she enjoyed some of the most productive years of her television career.  Gabriela had the opportunity to broadcast more than 300 sports programs including live coverage of the Sydney 2000 Olympic Games and the 2000 CONCACAF Women's Gold Cup soccer tournament.  "For the first time in my career, I was able to scream GOOOAL!" said Gabriela.

Gabriela moved on to ESPN in Bristol, Connecticut just prior to the launch of ESPN Deportes as a 24-hour Spanish-language TV network serving the U.S. Hispanic market in February 2004.  When Gabriela's boss asked her if she wanted to announce poker in Spanish for audiences in Mexico and Latin America, Gabriela jumped right in.  Since then, she had become known as the voice of the World Series of Poker (WSOP) in Latin America and her voice was heard in over 20 countries from Mexico to Argentina as well as the U.S. Besides calling every WSOP Main Event Final Table from 2004 to 2008, Gabriela voiced over 300 hours of poker television.  "I joked on the air that I was 'Norm-A Chad', but prettier, funnier, and probably a better poker player," said Gabriela referring to her English-speaking colleague.

Starting in May 2007, Gabriela wrote poker columns and appeared on camera to deliver Consejos de póquer con Gabriela Hill (Poker Advice with Gabriela Hill) video vignettes for ESPNdeportes.com.

Shortly after leaving ESPN in April 2009, Gabriela was offered one of her dream poker television assignments as host of Poker After Dark.  Over one million viewers tune in to the Azteca 7 free-to-air broadcast TV network in Mexico to watch each episode on Thursday nights. Poker After Dark is also broadcast throughout Spanish-speaking Latin America on Discovery Channel.

Besides broadcasting poker television, Gabriela owns and operates a real estate brokerage firm in Connecticut.  She also leads a busy family life including taking care of her young son.

When Gabriela is not doing any of her day jobs, you can find her playing at Full Tilt Poker.