Mimi Rogers is Poker Queen

TOM CRUISE's ex-wife MIMI ROGERS has become one of America's top female poker players after illegally gambling in Tahoe, California, when she was a teenager.

The actress' card shark father introduced his daughter to gambling when she was a kid, and she never looked back.

Rogers says, "I'll probably get arrested for this, but I used to go to Tahoe with him when I was 15 and play blackjack in the casinos."

And Rogers, who once won $900,000 (GBP500,000) at a single poker sitting, admits being a woman helps her win big.

She adds, "Sometimes, when guys play against a woman, they just refuse to believe you know what you're doing... so I actually can make money that way."