Poker Stories is a long-form audio podcast sequence that options informal interviews with a few of the sport’s finest gamers and personalities. Each episode highlights a widely known member of the poker world and dives deep into their favourite tales each on and off the felt.
Victoria Livschitz jumped head first into the shark-infested waters of the excessive curler scene in late 2021, having spent her pandemic lockdown learning all she may concerning the sport. While others might have been intimidated by the expertise on the very prime of the pyramid, in an surroundings with only a few ladies, Livschitz had already seen all of it earlier than, having discovered success with various totally different enterprise ventures in male-dominated industries.
The Ukraine-born former chess champion emigrated to the United States following the autumn of the Iron Curtain, touchdown in Cleveland. She labored odd jobs to complete college, together with opening a chess academy, earlier than touchdown within the automotive trade, doing analysis for Ford and General Motors. She then served because the principal architect for SolarGrid, engaged on the world’s first public cloud-based system, and later based Grid Dynamics, a know-how supplier for a lot of main Fortune 500 corporations. After her firm went public, Livschitz “retired,” beginning a meals firm to help her ardour for worldwide climbing, ProperOnTrek.
But after discovering fast success within the poker excessive curler world, Livschitz is already climbing the ladies’s all-time cash record rankings, having already cashed for $1.8 million. Livschitz has 4 wins already, together with an occasion on the 2023 EPT Paris competition and this yr’s Texas Poker Open, and lately managed to money in 4 consecutive tournaments on the PokerGO Tour U.S. Poker Open. Not content material to simply play the sport at a excessive degree, Livschitz has additionally partnered with high-stakes professionals Andrew ‘LuckyChewy’ Lichtenberger and Nick Schulman to create the coaching device OctopiPoker, and likewise donates her time to Pocket Queens, a corporation devoted to the development of girls in poker.
Highlights from this interview embody a foul beat from Daniel Negreanu, the Hellmuth ceremony of passage, test mating, a one-way flight to Cleveland, enjoying 27 folks without delay, the shock of smiling, automotive analysis and neural networks, beginning a tech firm and going public, climbing 1,000 miles yearly, hazard in Peru, COVID coping, why entrepreneurship is the actual gamble, befriending the excessive rollers, fixing poker instruments, the shortage of knowledge for girls in poker, don’t say women, the no sleep superpower, the dry cleansing spy, the artistry of the sport, 12-hour research classes, and a prediction for 2026.
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