From Tech IPO to High Roller. Reprogramming Poker Along the Way.
Victoria Livschitz doesn't do half-measures.
She doesn't just learn new skills—she masters them, then redefines the category.
Before she ever shuffled a deck, Victoria built Grid Dynamics, a cloud and AI engineering powerhouse that went public. She founded RightOnTrek, an outdoor adventure company that makes backcountry travel as plug-and-play as booking a flight. She's a mountaineer, a philanthropist, a founder several times over. In every field she's touched, she's gone from outsider to innovator—fast.
So when she discovered poker, she didn't tiptoe in. She dove headfirst into a $25,000 buy-in high roller just to "see how it felt to run with the pros."
That's not recklessness—that's calibration. It's how she's always operated. She studies the best, puts herself in the room with them, and compresses decades of experience into months of progress.
Within a few years, she's cashed for over $2 million in live tournaments, studying under the sharpest minds in the game like Andrew Lichtenberger and Nick Schulman. But her real play isn't just on the felt. It's in how she's bringing Silicon Valley precision and startup speed into a game that still runs on gut feel and tradition.
Victoria co-founded Octopi Poker, a platform designed to make solver technology intuitive and human-friendly. Because when she looks at poker software, she doesn't see complexity—she sees a UX problem waiting to be solved. Her goal isn't just to win tournaments; it's to rebuild the infrastructure of how players study, think, and improve.
The same brain that engineered distributed cloud systems is now dissecting poker's deepest puzzles. The same mind that turned wilderness logistics into a scalable business is turning GTO solvers into usable tools.
She's proof that the entrepreneurial edge translates.
That the best founders and the best players are cut from the same cloth—obsessed with systems, addicted to learning, and allergic to complacency.
In poker, she found another arena worthy of her curiosity. In business, she's found a way to level up the entire game.
Victoria Livschitz isn't just playing poker. She's reprogramming it.