Elizabeth Bennett-Martin
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Elizabeth Bennett-Martin
@ebm2424
Lawyer, Mediator and avid Poker Player. Co-founder of CLEW, a charity empowering change in Cambodia. Friend of @Irish_PokerOpen.
Toronto Katılım Aralık 2012
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8 years ago the managing partner of a law firm I worked at pulled me into a meeting and told me to 'tone down my aura of confidence" if I wanted to succeed there.
This is me today standing in my brand new 4,000 square foot Bay Street office for Marshall Law - Canada, complete with a PINK boardroom.
Don't ever take career advice from people who don't want to see you succeed.

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@VanessaKade So relating to your story. I lost my Jimmy cat in March and it was so hard.. we were imprinted on one another. Cero is with you and happy to know you are back at it as are all of us. Best wishes to you and keep going. Hugs. 🤗
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A couple people asked how poker has been going lately, because I haven't posted much:
When Cero started to get really sick a few years ago and it was clear the end was coming I got really depressed and not much was making me feel happy. The joy I got from poker and honestly anything was gone. For a while I just played Sundays, or an occasional live series, and then increasingly not even that.
After he died I was really really sad.
(One year ago now, on my birthday which was last week.)
I wanted to play even less, and felt like my spark was gone. In the last 3 years I've played less than 10% of a full schedule, when I have played, I played small. When playing online I mostly zoned out and played a half-assed auto pilot version of my game, too many tables, timing out everywhere, not thinking about spots. I even stopped sharing any results even on IG stories, feeling like if it wasn't an outright win and at least 5 figures it wasn't even worth mentioning. That's why there have been almost no posts about poker or frankly much of anything.
I've been playing full time almost 10 years now, the first 5 in live cash: I remember being so in love with the game there were several years where I would wake up in the evening, play all night until sunrise, get breakfast, sleep, and do it again with maybe 5 days off in a year - literally. I loved it. Couldn't get enough. Filled every waking hour. Eat, sleep, poker, that was it. So after recent years I started to wonder if maybe I'm just done.
Something clicked this week, and yesterday was the first day in a long time I was extremely fired up to play. I played a ton of tables but I was focused and was managing to consciously think about spots, and timed out maybe once the whole day.
I'm not trying to make a big speech like I won the Main Event or anything, but considering my abi yesterday was probably just over $100, and it was the first time in years I felt that old excitement to play, pretty happy being up $100k on the day. I think these things (the excitement and results) are directly related - at least as much as they can be outside of random chance.
I don't know, maybe some of you can relate. Feel like I have a little spark and see light in the tunnel for the first time in a while. ❤️
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Must follow @FarazJaka see below for some interesting WSOP info 😁
Faraz Jaka@FarazJaka
Writing every hand I play in #WSOPMainevent Day 1 & emailing them to whoever wants it. The good, the bad, the ugly; see it raw & unfiltered. Giving 1% of my Main Event winnings to 1 person who likes, retweets, & replies. Must follow @farazjaka Link to all hands in 1st reply 👇
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Writing every hand I play in #WSOPMainevent Day 1 & emailing them to whoever wants it.
The good, the bad, the ugly; see it raw & unfiltered.
Giving 1% of my Main Event winnings to 1 person who likes, retweets, & replies. Must follow @farazjaka
Link to all hands in 1st reply 👇
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@RecPokerJim @RecPoker Good luck!! I am
On my way down to play tomorrow 😁
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Holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit holy shit we’re really doing this aren’t we @RecPoker

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@tonkaaaap I was held up in customs with all this cash I won 😂
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@ebm2424 Let’s go!!! I saw you when you got on the plane right!?!?
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Apologies to @gibber22 for the angle, you can’t see him very well, but here’s a video of the song we performed with @ebm2424 at the @Irish_PokerOpen - so much fun in the Craic Den!
BLUFFSTORINI@RecPokerJim
It went downhill from there
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Gang they let me on another podcast! 🤯 this one is all about a hand I player against @Veaner85 in the @RecPoker home game club. Check it out!
🎙 The Chip Race 🎙@thechiprace
♠️ ♥️ ♣️ ♦️ S25 ~ E4 ♦️♣️ ♥️ ♠️ 🇺🇸 Poker Pro & Coach @mcmattopoker 🇺🇸 @Irish_PokerOpen champion @steveodwyer 🇨🇦 Strategy: @RecPokerJim 🆚 @Veaner85 🇮🇪 Is another Black Friday on the horizon? 🎙️ soundcloud.com/thechiprace/se… ❤️ LIKE/RT = DRAW FOR €100 ticket
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