Life Outside Poker w/ Connor Richards is a new podcast for PokerNews that focuses on poker players with successful careers and lives outside of poker.
For the first episode, Connor Richards spoke with soap opera actress and high-stakes poker player Farah Fath Galfond, who talked about her acting career spanning more than a decade, first discovering poker in Atlantic City and balancing poker with raising a family.
You can also watch the hourlong interview with Farah Galfond by heading to the PokerNews YouTube channel.
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Time Stamps
| TIME | TOPIC | |
|---|---|---|
| 0:00 | Intro | |
| 1:00 | Growing up in Kentucky and early acting career | |
| 4:35 | Days of Our Lives audition | |
| 6:10 | Mimi Lockhart storylines | |
| 7:48 | Losing yourself in character | |
| 10:30 | Deciding to leave Days of Our Lives | |
| 13:15 | Moving to New York | |
| 14:45 | First getting into poker | |
| 15:43 | Playing poker in Atlantic City | |
| 17:50 | One Life canceled and moving back to LA | |
| 18:48 | Seeing Phil on High Stakes Poker | |
| 19:20 | Connecting with Phil on Twitter | |
| 21:20 | Acting as a craft | |
| 27:25 | Learning from Phil | |
| 30:24 | What kind of father is Phil? | |
| 32:50 | High stakes tenure, moving up to $2k/$4k | |
| 34:25 | Balancing poker with being a mother | |
| 36:10 | Transitioning to tournaments | |
| 39:34 | Being numb to losing money | |
| 40:25 | Making comeback in Galfond Challenge | |
| 43:02 | Differences between Vegas, LA & Atlantic City poker scenes | |
| 46:25 | Raising the next generation of poker players | |
| 49:00 | Living in Vegas | |
| 53:35 | Period of your life you get nostalgic for | |
| 56:00 | Advice for your younger self | |
| 57:24 | Something that makes you hopeful | |
| 58:24 | Favorite life lesson from poker |
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