

Losing to Become a Winning Poker Player | "Jungleman" Dan Cates & Eugene Katchalov
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Born in Kiev, Ukraine, Eugene Katchalov was raised in Brooklyn, New York. He graduated from New York University (NYU) with a business degree, but he has been playing poker professionally for the past four years. One of Katchalov's biggest scores in a live tournament came in a $5,000 no-limit event during the 2007 Bellagio Cup III, where he earned $118,785. He also won the Sunday $750,000-guaranteed tournament on Full Tilt in November of 2007, but nothing compares to the more than $2.4 million that he snagged for winning the 2007 World Poker Tour Five-Diamond World Poker Classic. Katchalov entered the televised final table as the chip leader and rode it all the way to victory. In addition to success at the poker table, Eugene co-founded Qlash in 2017, a new kind of Media company building and supporting Gaming & Esports Communities at the global & local level.
Listen to this latest episode of Winning The Game Of Life where Dan talks with Eugene Katchalov about all things poker and taking life’s free rolls and exploring the possibilities.
What you can expect on this episode:
- Poker as an exercise in psychology and reading peoples tendencies:
- Losing as the best way to learn and the worst way Eugene ever lost
- Dealing with self-doubt to carry on and find success
- Learning how to navigate risk moving from gaming, to poker, to entrepreneurship
- Poker as a zero-sum game and wanting to find the win-win situations
- Eugene’s brief modeling career in Men’s Fitness
- A friendly wager, 1000 push-ups, and a 100 km bike ride across France
- The origin story of Eugene the Entrepreneur and how Clash is creating a new eSports community
- The challenges associated with a startup
- Developing a spiritual self after investigating psychedelics
- Optimism as a synonym for success
- We hope you find this episode as informative and as exciting as we have. Eugene is winning the game of life and illustrates how believing you will win can get you there.
- Please let us know your thoughts about the episode!
- Connect with Eugene Katchalov:
- Website: https://www.qlash.gg/
- Twitter: @eugenekatchalov
- Connect with Dan Cates
- Website: https://www.dancatesfoundation.com/
- Instagram: @thedancates