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 records, and just as passionate about his work as when he first began. On this episode, we’ll hear all about his journey over the last two decades...

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 closer to two. In recent months, Andrew has been crushing the Super High Roller scene too, culminating in a third-place finish in the recent...

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 five-figure scores, essentially doubling her career earnings to almost $800,000 in the span of just a couple of months. A career of hard work and...

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 helping to grow the WPT into a truly global brand, on today’s show we’ll learn more about her passion for the game of poker, her life off the felt, her...

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. event. Prior to becoming a poker player for a living, where he’s won over $4.3 million in live tournaments over his career, David was a...

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, which has boosted his combined live and online career winnings to over $5 million. We’re going to chat with him today about his successes on and...

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 Daniel on their behalf.

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 2012. In recent years Xuan has added poker commentator and Poker Power instructor to her resume and on this show we’ll get to know her a little...

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 dozen tournament results dating back over a decade, but he makes his bread and butter in cash games, currently as a staple in the $80/160 game at...

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 ever to win a million dollars in a tournament at the now legendary PartyPoker Million in 2002. This past summer she was a first-time nominee for the...

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 event in 2021. Not only a great player, but his skills and development have earned him a prominent spot on the roster of instructors at...

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 it since then as a grassroots, volunteer-based organization. It has since become the premier national series of charity poker tournaments. On this...

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 brain. On this episode, we’ll get to know Dr. Lara a little better.

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 beginning of 2021. On this show, we’ll get to know her a little better.

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 dad took him to the WSOP in Las Vegas, which just happened to be the year that Chris Moneymaker won the Main Event. The rest, as they say, is...

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 get to know Lex a little better.

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 11,000 followers. He’s long been a beloved ambassador representing online poker brands, and most recently he signed a new deal to rep 888poker. On this...

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 Addelman and Byron Jacobs, and we’ll get to know them a little better.

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 magazine, and right here at Cardschat. She’s also got poker playing chops, as last year, she and her father came in 3rd place in the WSOP Tag Team...

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 created one of the premier poker training sites on the market, which has also evolved into an online playing site that he’s hoping to re-launch in the...

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 he’s been involved in poker media since 2009. On this show, Chris asks Robbie a bevy of questions about his professional and personal life,...

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-studded lineups including a recent stream that saw Phil Hellmuth and Tom Dwan join some of the biggest influencers from gaming and YouTube, Ryan has...

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 has over $1.2 million in career live tournament earnings. We’ve got Kevin, right here for you for a great conversation and on this show we get to...

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 this show, we’ll get to know her a little better.

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’s all-time money list with over $13.6M in winnings. He’s also recently become an ambassador for WSOP.com, which just launched their online poker...