On episode #129 of the Cardschat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Gareth James. He's a professional poker player, coach, author, and fellow podcaster. On this show we'll talk about his career as a player as well as his multiple other poker pursuits - in particular his latest book, The Final Table - as well as get to know him better in gen…

On episode #128 of the Cardschat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Max Pescatori. Max is a successful longtime professional poker player with four World Series of Poker bracelets and two WSOP Circuit Rings in his trophy cabinet. Winning his bracelets in No Limit Hold'em, Pot Limit Omaha, Razz and Seven Card Stud Hi-Lo, Max has been profici…

On episode #127 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Anish Patel. Anish is the author of poker's first ever graphic novel, a project he began working on 14 years ago, after watching the 2008 WSOP Main Event Final Table. The project eventually ended up being called The Final 9 and after boatloads of time, effort, and resources …

On episode #126 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Maureen Bloechlinger, one of the poker industry's most active advocates for increasing women's involvement in the game. Based in Switzerland, she is perhaps best known for her running of two prominent Facebook groups: Globetrotting Poker and Globetrotting Poker Women - which…

On episode #125 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming David "ODB" Baker. David is a longtime poker professional and mixed game specialist with close to $7 million in career tournament winnings. He won his first World Series of Poker bracelet in 2012 in the $2,500 8-Game Mix event before grabbing gold again in 2019 in the $1,500…

This edition of the CardsChat podcast revisits interviews with former WSOP World Champions Chris Moneymaker, Joe Cada, Ryan Riess, Martin Jacobson and Greg Raymer (plus Phil Hellmuth and Jamie Gold – audio version only). These players have reached the very top of the poker world, and share their experiences before, during and after their history-ma…

On episode #124 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Leon Wheeler, the poker room manager at Resorts World Las Vegas. Leon's involvement in the poker industry stretches back over 30 years. He's had a front row seat to the poker boom and bust cycle in Las Vegas having worked with a number of top properties in the city over the …

On episode #123 of the Cardschat Podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming "Miami" John Cernuto. John holds a special place in poker lore, having racked up the most cashes in the history of live ranking tournament poker. Currently that tally is over 625 cashes according to the Hendon Mob. On today's show, we'll take a tour through his illustrious p…

On episode #122 of the Cardschat Podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Lexy Gavin-Mather. She's a poker player, vlogger, presenter, and coach whose added value to the game is as wide as her smile. A poker professional at the top of her game, Lexy is a truly positive person to have in the industry. With about 10,000 subscribers and 1 million vie…

On episode #121 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Jon Friedberg. Jon’s is a name you might not recognize, but whose primary contribution to the poker world is certainly widely known. A longtime poker player with over $1 million in career tournament earnings, and a WSOPbracelet, Jon’s biggest claim to fame is that he founded…

On episode #120 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Ryan Kirk. He's less well known at the felt, but rather known in the poker world for his work behind the scenes as the Director of Poker Operations at Aria Las Vegas. Over the past few years, the poker room at Aria Casino & Resort in Las Vegas has continuously been spoken ab…

On episode #119 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Chance Kornuth. He's a professional poker player who has won almost $12 million at the live felt in tournaments alone. A three-time World Series of Poker bracelet winner, a World Poker Tour Champions Club member and the co-founder of Chip Leader Coaching, we'll speak with Ch…

On episode#118 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Tom Wheaton. One of the hardest-working, innovative entrepreneurs in our industry, Tom first debuted in poker as the founder and CEO of Faded Spade Playing Cards, making inroads into dozens of the top poker rooms across the United States. He subsequently carved out advisory …

On episode #117 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Alex Livingston. Alex is a WSOP bracelet winner and past WSOP Main Event final table-ist from Canada. Cashing across a vast number of high-profile events over the past few years, he has become one of our favorite players to watch, especially on the mixed game scene. He's got…

On episode #116 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming a truly multinational poker personality. This Canadian was born in Poland and now often finds herself presenting and playing poker in the United States. With a notorious history of doing the right thing, she’s taken the poker world by storm in recent years and been at the fo…

On episode #115 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Georgina James, a.k.a, GJ Reggie. She is a poker player, a gamer and a PokerStars ambassador. She is also a Twitch streamer par excellence, and while mostly an online player, she recently won her first 'Spadie' trophy as PokerStars ambassador in The Bahamas. With a magnetic…

On episode #114 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Kristin Brotherton, who was recognized with the Poker Power Rising Star award at the recent Women in Poker Hall of Fame gala. A full-time technologist and engineer with Google, Kristin is quickly beginning to make a name for herself in the poker world. We talk about her tour…

On episode #113 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Chris Robinson. Better known in the Cardschat community as CRStals, Chris is one of our most active forum members, as well as a moderator. He had the good fortune to win a Platinum Pass to play in the PokerStars Players Championship in the Bahamas, and on today’s show we get…

On episode #112 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Frank Kassela. Frank is a 3-time WSOP bracelet winner, a former WSOP player of the year, and has $3.4 million in career live tournament earnings. While those numbers are impressive enough, poker isn't his primary gig, as he's a tremendously successful businessman and entrepr…

On episode #111 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Arlie Shaban. He's a cult hero to thousands of online poker fans, who follow his streams on Twitch regularly. Having been a Twitch streamer for half a decade now, this man has written the book on how to grow a loyal audience and how to entertain the masses with his gameplay…

Episode #110 of the CardsChat podcast features Jaman Burton, one of the most successful and creative vloggers in the poker world. He's had an incredible journey to become one of the most recognizable and influential players in the industry, but don't call him an 'influencer'. Make no mistake about it though, this man is a tremendous poker player, a…

On episode #109 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming AJ Rudolph. AJ is the program manager and Director of Education and Technology for Poker Power and the Vice President of the Women’s Poker Association. She’s also the recent winner of the Women in Poker Hall of Fame Bounty Tournament. On this show, we’re going to get to kno…

On episode #108 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Raminder Singh. Though he refers to himself as the “True Poker Amateur”, he has put together an outstanding resume that includes almost $2 million in career tournament earnings with 75 titles and over 330 registered cashes on the Hendon Mob, also earning him the nickname “T…

On episode #107 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Ryan Beauregard. Ryan is the Executive Director of Poker at the Wynn Resort and Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada. Ahead of the massive WPT World Championship festival, we thought it would be nice to talk to "the man in charge" as far as all things poker at the Wynn, and get to kn…

On episode #106 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Adam Pliska. One of the most important and longest-tenured people in the poker industry, as the CEO of the World Poker Tour, Adam has basically seen it all. Yet after 20 years at the helm of the WPT he’s still growing the company by leaps and bounds, innovating, setting rec…

On episode #105 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Andrew Lichtenberger. Known more frequently by his nickname than his actual name, 'LuckyChewy', Andrew is the winner of a World Series of Poker bracelet, a WSOP Circuit event and over $14 million in live earnings. He shot to fame just a decade ago but has been playing for c…

On episode #104 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Angela Jordison. Winning a tournament is cool but how about just running deep or winning everything you play in? Angela's been on that kind of a heater recently, not just earning her biggest ever career score by a wide margin, but following it up with multiple back-to-back f…

On episode #103 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Angelica Hael. Angelica has been working for over a decade at the World Poker Tour, where she is now the company’s Vice President of Global Tour Management. Known industry-wide for her dedication to advancing and promoting women’s participation in poker as well as for helpin…

On episode #102 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming David Bach. David graduated from the University of Georgia, his home state, with a degree in Psychology and has one of poker’s great nicknames: the ‘Gunslinger’. To date, has won 3 WSOP bracelets, all in mixed games, with his most notable one being the 2009 $50k H.O.R.S.E. e…

On episode #101 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Kevin Rabichow. Kevin is one of the premier coaches in the poker world. But to be a great coach, you obviously should be a great player as well, and he certainly is that. Once known primarily as an online heads-up specialist, he expanded his skills into high-stakes MTT play…

For our very special 100th episode of the Cardschat podcast, we have a legendary guest, Poker Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu. Usually Robbie preps a bunch of questions and there’s then a short segment of questions from the Cardchat community. In this episode, it’s all about the community, who’ve come forth with dozens of questions that Robbie asks D…

On episode #99 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Xuan Liu. She is a professional poker player born in China and raised in Canada with over $2.7 million in total career tournament earnings, live and online combined. She is also the only woman to final table the PokerStars Caribbean Adventure main event, finishing 4th back in…

On episode #98 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Andrew Yeh. Andrew is an absolute Mixed Game poker powerhouse. With over $1 million in career live tournament earnings, this past summer he had his greatest achievement to date, winning his first bracelet in the $10K HORSE event at the World Series of Poker. He’s got a few d…

On episode #97 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Kathy Liebert. Kathy is a true legend of the game and one of the OG women in the poker world. She’s amassed over $6.6 million in live tournament earnings over her nearly 30-year career, which includes a WSOP bracelet, several WPT final tables, and she was the first woman eve…

On episode #96 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Justin Saliba, one of the fastest rising young stars in poker. Having only primarily played tournaments for less than five years, he’s already amassed over $1 million in live tournament earnings, plus much more online, including a World Series of Poker bracelet in an online e…

On episode #95 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Matt Stout. Matt is a professional poker player from Las Vegas with over $4 million in career winnings and 7 World Series of Poker Circuit rings. His professional success notwithstanding, Matt is better known for having started the Charity Series of Poker in 2014 and running…

On episode #94 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Dr. Lara Eisenberg, winner of the 2021 WSOP Ladies Event. She is an MD, with a radiology practice in Maryland, an accomplished world record-holding skydiver, and she is currently writing a chapter for Lena Evans’ upcoming book Poker for Life on the impact of poker on the bra…

On episode #93 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Ashley Frank, a.k.a. PokerFaceASH. Ashley is a popular poker vlogger from Scottsdale Arizona who enjoys both tournament and cash game action. Currently she has over 21,000 subscribers, which she’s amassed over 39 vlog episodes that she’s produced since starting out at the beg…

On episode #92 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Tony Burns, Director of Poker Marketing for Seminole Hard Rock in Hollywood Florida. Tony is originally from Fort Wayne Indiana but moved to Central Florida when he was six. After college, he had a variety of jobs and began dealing poker in a bar league for fun. In 2003 his …

On episode #91 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Lex Veldhuis. Hailing from Rotterdam, in the Netherlands, Lex is the most popular Twitch streamer in the poker world and a longtime member of the Poker Stars Team Pro Online. A multi-time Global Poker Award winner with over 300,000 followers on Twitch, on today’s show we’ll …

On episode #90 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Ian Simpson. Ian’s been a professional poker player for close to a decade, now, and in that time beyond being able to make a living from the game he’s also made a name for himself as a successful content creator, namely on Twitch, where he’s amassed an audience of about 11,0…

On episode #89 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming for the first time ever, not one but TWO guests. Two peas in a pod, this pair of persistently prolific poker publishers have together had one heck of a significant impact on the poker world. On this episode we’ll be speaking to the co-owners of D&B Poker Publishing, Dan Addel…

On episode #88 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Amanda Botfeld. She is the author of "A Girl's Guide to Poker", a Poker Power instructor, and author of numerous articles for such prestigious outlets as The Huffington Post and the Wall Street Journal as well as poker media outlets including Cardplayer Lifestyle, 888poker ma…

On episode #87 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Phil Galfond. He is one of the most successful, respected, and well-liked people in poker. He’s played and crushed the highest-stakes No-Limit Hold ‘em and Pot-Limit Omaha games both live and online. He’s also been one of the game’s best coaches for over 15 years and has cre…

On episode #86 of the CardsChat podcast, we flip the mic as our interviewee is Robbie Strazynski, our show’s host. Conducting the interview is Chris Wallace, a writer for CardsChat, who has known Robbie for almost a decade. Aside from hosting the CardsChat podcast, Robbie is the founder of Cardplayerlifestyle.com, a popular poker media website, and…

On episode #85 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Ryan Feldman. Ryan is one of the true innovators and heavyweights in the poker streaming world, having worked for many years on Live at the Bike, and now quickly developing Hustler Casino Live into one of the major players in streamed poker broadcasts. With constantly star-s…

On episode #84 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Kevin Gerhart. Kevin is one of the best mixed game players in the world today, but believe it or not, it’s possible that you may not have heard about him. He has won not one – not two – not three – but FOUR WSOP bracelets in events as diverse as Razz, PLO, PLO8 and HORSE, and…

On episode #83 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Kyna England, a Poker Power instructor from Evanston, Illinois. Kyna won the Mid-Stakes Poker Tour Player of the Year title for 2021 and has close to $800,000 in lifetime tournament winnings. She was also nominated for the Global Poker Awards 2021 Breakout Player of the Year…

On episode #82 of the CardsChat podcast, we have the pleasure of welcoming Joe Cada. Joe is one of the most successful players in the history of the World Series of Poker, and one of a very exclusive group of players to not just win the Main Event, but to final table it more than once. He’s a 4-time bracelet winner who sits in 7th place on the WSOP…

On episode #81 of the CardsChat podcast we have the pleasure of welcoming Benjamin “Spraggy” Spragg. A British poker player originally from Gloucestershire, England who is a popular Twitch streamer and a member of the Poker Stars Pro Team Online, Spraggy boasts over 135,000 subscribers and counting. He specializes in online MTTs and has made over $…