Meet the Ari Gold of Poker?!

Katie Lindsay tells ALL

Author

Art Parmann
November 30, 2025 • Estimated Reading Time: 4 minutes

**Katie Lindsay didn’t plan on working in poker.

She definitely didn’t plan on becoming one of the people who quietly shapes it.**

Some guests walk into the studio and you can tell they’ve lived inside the game in a way most people haven’t — not just playing it, but seeing it from angles the rest of us never get to.

Katie’s one of those people.

She started in Hollywood.
Then somehow ended up running around backstage at televised poker events.
Then somehow became an agent…
…signed real clients…
…and found herself negotiating sponsorships minutes before the cameras rolled.
Then — years later — she found her way back into playing full time.

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Alright, back to the show:

This episode is full of those little hinge moments. The ones where doing one small thing changes everything.

Katie takes us through:

🔥 The random sliding-door moment that pulled her out of entertainment and into poker
🔥 What it was actually like working with players during the peak TV era
🔥 The “Shannon Elizabeth situation” and the scramble no one saw
🔥 The years where poker burned her out — and what brought her back
🔥 Falling in love with the game again (but in a completely different way)
🔥 The quiet realities of being both a player and the person behind the players

No big declarations.
No drama.
Just a smart, grounded conversation with someone who’s seen the industry from the inside out.

And somehow made a career out of simply saying “yes” at the right moments.

If you like episodes where the story unfolds little by little — this one hits that spot perfectly.

Watch it on YouTube here (Spotify uploading…)

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See you next week,
— Art & Justin

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