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Episode 104: Katie Lindsay
Katie Lindsay walked into the studio and immediately delivered one of the most effortlessly entertaining episodes we’ve ever recorded.
This one has EVERYTHING:
- 🔥 Breaking into Brandon Cantu’s house for a nap
- 🔥 Growing up gambling with two older brothers — pool, gin, spades, and Sunday NFL “helmet picks”
- 🔥 Leaving high school early, starting college at 16, and the ambition that shaped her entire life
- 🔥 The LA era: bartending in dive bars, casting for MTV shows, and discovering poker through pure hustle
- 🔥 Cold-calling Men the Master for a PLO interview that actually launched her poker career
- 🔥 How she built “Suited Connections” into one of poker’s first real player agencies
- 🔥 Navigating Black Friday, losing everything overnight, and reinventing herself — again
- 🔥 Meeting Chris Moorman, surviving the chaos of staking, and watching him rebuild from $20 rebuys
- 🔥 Katie’s heater year: WSOP final tables, the Venom run, and becoming the first woman to win a Moneymaker Tour event
- 🔥 The emotional phone call with her dad that went viral
- 🔥 Life in New Orleans, Saints fandom, fashion, confidence, and finally becoming comfortable in front of the camera
- 🔥 Why she believes showing up as yourself — loud outfits, big personality, heels and all — is her real superpower
This episode is funny, honest, surprising, emotional, and full of the best behind-the-scenes intel from someone who has lived every chapter of modern poker.
If you love great stories, behind-the-curtain poker history, and one of the most colorful personalities in the game…
👇 Watch / Listen Now!
Show Notes:
- 00:00 – Early Poker Memories & Reunion with Katie
- 02:00 – Travel, Tournaments & Life Balance
- 04:00 – Poker Legends, Names, and Industry Storytime
- 06:00 – Katie’s Family Origin Story & Childhood Competitiveness
- 10:00 – Academics, Ambition & Leaving for College at 16
- 14:00 – New Orleans, Saints Fandom & Early Adulthood
- 16:00 – LA Life: Bartending, Reality TV & Casting Hustle
- 19:00 – Falling Into Poker Writing & Breaking Into the Industry
- 24:00 – Becoming a Poker Agent & Building Suited Connections
- 32:00 – Black Friday Shock & Reinventing Herself Outside Poker
- 37:00 – Meeting Moorman & Life Inside the Staking World
- 46:00 – Katie’s Poker Career: Rings, Trophies & Confidence
- 54:00 – Signing with ACR & Overcoming Camera Shyness
- 58:00 – Triton Experience, Cashes & The Bahamas Run
- 01:02:00 – Winning the Moneymaker Event & Emotional Moments
- 01:08:00 – Life, Travel, New Orleans Living & What’s Next
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