PZ101: Sara O’Connor Does Things

It’s early in the back nine for the Poker Zoo podcast, so it’s time to focus on what we want to accomplish. I have a fitting guest today in Sara O’Connor, a mid-Atlantic player and writer who has gathered some attention through her book, A New Queen’s Guide to Poker, and through some social media expertise. Sara has a lot of drive.

I was introduced to Sara through my friend Jason when he bit off a little more than he could chew in the course of his regular Twitter trolling. While Sara and I discuss many things about her life in poker, her first book is or was the original focus of the interview. I think she has done a great job in acclimating the novice to specifically live casino poker. Explicatory passages such as this could do a lot for the unfamiliar:

The game is played with a dealer in the center of the table and

two to ten players. Seat numbers start from the dealer’s left at seat

one and usually end at eight or nine but may go all the way up to

ten. Currently, my favorite seat is seat five, but never become too

attached to one seat. You never know which seat you’ll have to start

playing at, and attachments can lead to feelings of jinxes which

must be avoided. That said, you can ask for a seat change button if

you’re horribly uncomfortable and playing a cash game. With a

tournament, you’re stuck with the seat you’ve been given. We’ll talk

about the nitty gritty details of each of these table positions later.