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🗓️ 13 February 2025
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0:00.0 | All right, I'm with Liv Boree, everybody. Welcome to Walkins, welcome. Thank you. Thank you for coming. I |
0:06.6 | think we should just have a regular, you know, sitting date where we catch up on the culture wars, |
0:12.2 | because you're here now. Yep. You're not, when did you come to Austin? Three years ago, |
0:16.6 | officially. And where were you before? Oxford, UK. Oh, okay. So that's, is that where you're born and raised? |
0:23.1 | Pretty much. I'm from Kent, but yeah, UK. |
0:25.3 | Okay. And what made you come to Austin and the United States? |
0:31.2 | I mean, I've been kind of like hot. I mean, I was traveling here a lot anyway when I was playing pro poker. |
0:39.2 | Obviously, the World Series of Pokers in Vegas, all the biggest tournaments are here. |
0:42.7 | So I'd come every summer, but I don't know. |
0:45.2 | I'd always wanted to move to the US but could never find quite the right excuse. |
0:48.7 | And then my husband, Igor, got a job working for Elon and that required him to be in Austin. So we were like, |
0:57.1 | all right, that's a very good reason to move. What does he do for Elon? He was helping run his |
1:02.2 | philanthropy foundation. Oh, okay. He only did it for a little while. Okay. And so then you guys |
1:08.9 | came, it was a good excuse to come. Yep. And he is he also a |
1:14.4 | poker player or just you? Is that where you met? Uh-huh. Tell me the story. Well, we first |
1:20.4 | technically met in 2010. We were both at the same poker table. But he remembers me, but I don't remember him because |
1:28.3 | like in any given big poker tournament is maybe 3% women at most. Right. So I probably |
1:34.8 | stuck out like a sore thumb, whereas he was just another dude in a sea of dudes. Also, I ended up |
1:39.7 | winning that big tournament. Oh wow. Okay. So more reason for, you know, I won his chips. And so that was |
1:45.8 | the first time we crossed paths. But then we became friends like over the next six months. |
1:49.6 | And we were just like best friends for a couple of years, very platonic. But then that shifted. |
1:54.8 | And then we did a thing. And then we were like, well, this was good. And we did it. And then we |
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