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About Kathy Leonard
In 2013, Kathy Leonard redesigned the World Series of Poker’s satellite qualification structure to eliminate regional bias, introducing geolocated blind draws and standardized buy-in tiers across 27 countries. That overhaul cut qualifier wait times by 41% and increased female participation by 28% in two years, not through marketing, but by rewriting payout distribution algorithms to reward consistent mid-tier performance over single-table dominance. She insists on paper-based hand histories at live final tables, a deliberate anachronism that slows pace to prevent algorithmic advantage and forces real-time ethical calibration among dealers and floor staff. Her 'Integrity Index', a public-facing dashboard tracking time-to-ruling on disputes, dealer retraining rates, and chip-count audit variance, has been adopted by six major circuits since 2019. Leonard doesn’t host tournaments; she engineers trust infrastructure, treating fairness as a measurable system, not a slogan.
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- “How did you redesign WSOP satellites to reduce regional qualification bias?”
- “Why do you require paper hand histories at final tables in 2024?”
- “What's the biggest flaw you've found in current tournament payout algorithms?”
- “How does your Integrity Index actually change floor staff behavior?”