Jamie Kerstetter, a professional poker player, commentator, and animal lover, shares the charity work she’s doing and why it’s so important to her. She explains why her improvement stalled for a while and what she’s doing now to ramp up her skills and crush it online. Tune in to learn how Jamie made peace with her nontraditional life path, how her family reacted to her career switch from law to poker, and how the live and online poker world is different for female players.

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Time Stamped Show Notes:

• 00:00 – 24:00 – Pandemic updates from Las Vegas, her writing, background, poker journey, and what it’s like being a female poker player.
• 24:00 – 39:00 - Her parent’s reaction, how commentary helped her family accept her profession, the charity work she’s doing and why, and her passion for animals and especially pit bulls.
• 39:00 – 52:00 - When she started playing online, the emotional swings in tournaments, dealing with variance, why her improvement stalled, and what she’s doing to study now.
• 52:00 – 01:20:00 - On winning the 2019 Global Poker Awards Twitter Personality of the Year, her most meaningful tournament run, and what she thinks about Twitch.
• 01:20:00 – 01:31:00 - What made her an animal lover, who she enjoys commentating with, her favorite female players, and her nontraditional life path.
• 01:31:00 – 01:49:30 - Her love for soccer, what she hopes for the future, the importance of content, some of her favorite players, and who she’d kill, marry, and “snog” in poker.

3 Key Points

• There are huge swings in tournaments.
• You can create your own path.
• Think for yourself. 

Contact/Resources

• Partner - partypoker
• Website - Jeff Gross Poker
• Jeff’s Twitch
• Jamie’s Instagram
• Jamie’s Twitter