A longtime friend of Susie Zhao remembered her with a loving tribute in the courtroom on November 10. The hearing was a short one to sentence the person who murdered Susie Q, as many poker players knew her.

It took more than two years for the murderer of Susie Zhao to face a judge and jury in a courtroom. But once the trial started this week, the gruesome story of what Jeffery Bernard Morris did to poker’s own Susie Q led to a fairly quick conclusion.

Susie Zhao was known to many in poker as Susie Q. She was a friend and fellow poker player, not to mention a beloved daughter. She was brutally tortured and killed in the early morning hours of July 13, 2020.