Ep 661 - Chats: Kathy Liebert

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview Kathy Liebert! Kathy shares some stories about her extremely accomplished poker career, starting as a ‘prop’ player in her local cardroom, the changes she’s seen in the poker world over the years, how she defines success as a player with so many accolades to her name already, what she misses about the ‘old days’ and what is better about the game today, she shares her thoughts on the Poker Hall of Fame, playing in the WPT versus the WSOP, mistakes less-experienced players make on the felt, her worst poker memory, and several other questions form the YouTube chat!

We also play Stake/Study Stack with Ted Forrest, Vanessa Selbst, and Scott Seiver and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too!

Kathy can be found on Twitter at https://x.com/pokerkat

We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

This week Jim Reid and the RecPoker RECing Crew interview Kathy Liebert! Kathy shares some stories about her extremely accomplished poker career, starting as a ‘prop’ player in her local cardroom, the changes she’s seen in the poker world over the years, how she defines success as a player with so many accolades to her name already, what she misses about the ‘old days’ and what is better about the game today, she shares her thoughts on the Poker Hall of Fame, playing in the WPT versus the WSOP, mistakes less-experienced players make on the felt, her worst poker memory, and several other questions form the YouTube chat!

We also play Stake/Study Stack with Ted Forrest, Vanessa Selbst, and Scott Seiver and we Close The Action with our speed round! Plus of course we raffle away a free prize at the end for folks in the YouTube chat, to help support a local food bank. Join us LIVE on YouTube next Monday at 7:30 ET for free to ask our guests questions in real time, and you can win too!

Kathy can be found on Twitter at https://x.com/pokerkat

We also go over this week's home game results and discuss these topics:

How to help us out - https://rec.poker/support/

Home Games - https://rec.poker/homegame/

Go Premium! - https://rec.poker/premium/

Timestamps:

08:24 Kathy defines her own role in the poker world

12:25 Biggest changes in the poker industry

13:54 Poker as a welcoming place

18:43 Chats: What is your favorite poker variant and why

19:15 What counts as success in the poker world?

22:21 Kathy on event preferences: WPT or WSOP

23:29 Factors that makes an event stand out

24:57 Actions that tell someone is a less-experienced player

28:01 How did Kathy learn poker?

36:32 Mystery bounty: better or worse for Rec.?

43:13 Win another bracelet or WPT name-inscribed trophy

48:18 Kathy on one of the worst poker memories

01:16:52 Home Game Result updates

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