Ep 477 - Chats: Elizabeth Bennett-Martin on Winning as a Rec!

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview Elizabeth Bennett-Martin about her recent win at the Irish Poker Open as well as some other impressive results in the last while. Elizabeth talks about her experiences travelling around the world with her friends playing poker, some tips she has learned along the way, how her life as a lawyer/mediator has impacted her poker career, and she also reveals one HUGE tell that she finds reliable among most poker players! Elizabeth also shares some details about her charity, CLEW, that helps Cambodian women to explore an education in the legal field. Plus of course we give away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat. Join us on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too!

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Elizabeth is active on Twitter as @ebm2424

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Timestamps:

00:13 Welcome & Introduction

03:11 Introduction to to Elizabeth Bennett Martin

04:14 Elizabeth defines her role in the poker world

09:19 The difference in Elizabeth’s experience in her recent deep-runs

17:54 Elizabeth shares some techniques that really helped her

22:29 What drew Elizabeth to traveling to play poker?

27:58 Recommending recreational players in selecting opportunities to play in

29:14 Elizabeth: the more you play the comfortable you become

30:51 Is it common that women are more nervous when there’s another woman?

32:22 Chat: Are you able to control breathing and heart rate, when you make a big bluff move?

37:57 Skills that correlate with poker and being a lawyer: reading people

47:13 John: Home Game Result updates

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