This drops you into Day 4 of the World Series of Poker Main Event Championship.
But it’s not just about chips and cards.
It’s about what happens when one woman sits down at the table with a short stack, a clear mind, and a Champion Moment already wired in.
Her name is Katlyn Slone, and this is the prequel to becoming the winner, because she already is.
The Rollercoaster Before the Win
Day 3 of the WSOP Main Event ended just after 1 a.m. on July 9, with just 1,476 players remaining. There are only 15 spots from the money.
When you're that close to a $15,000 minimum cash, everything tightens. The room hums with a quiet kind of desperation. One wrong move and you go home with nothing. One right move, and you start building your climb.
Katlyn Slone bagged 37,000 chips and her seat at Table 575. But the real story of Day 3 didn’t happen on the felt. It happened inside her.
Before cards were in the air, I led Katlyn into what I call the Champion Moment. It’s not a meditation, it’s a “felt-experience just before.”
She closed her eyes and stepped into the moment just before winning the Main Event:
The lights. The tension. The pressure in her chest. What she was wearing. What it tasted like in her mouth. That breath you take right before the moment happens… when you already know it’s yours.
When she opened her eyes, she had goosebumps. “That felt real,” she said.
But even a powerful pre-game imprint can get shaken loose when the stakes are high.
After the dinner break and six hours of play, Katlyn messaged me. She felt lightheaded. Nauseated. Her body was hijacked by panic.
I told her to breathe in light and energy, and exhale stress, fear, lack, and overwhelm.
I reminded her:
“This isn’t a weakness. This is what cortisol overload feels like when you’re under pressure and deeply invested.”
And her truth that shifted it:
She was already the winner. What she was living was just the prequel.
Later that night, after bagging her chips, she posted a video. Her words were simple, but full of clarity:
“It was a rollercoaster. You have to go down to go back up… and up to go back down.”
Here’s the video Katlyn shared with her tribe late that night… raw, grounded, and still riding the rollercoaster.
That’s poker. That’s life. That’s transformation in real time.
The Message Heading into Day 4 of the WSOP Main Event Championship
Katlyn enters Day 4 with what some might call “air,” poker slang for a chip stack so short it barely counts.
They’re wrong.
This game has always honored the ones who stay in it. There’s a reason “a chip and a chair” is legendary. As long as you have a seat, especially at the biggest table in poker, you are in it to win it.
Yes, there are over 1,400 players left. But Katlyn isn’t playing against all of them. She’s competing against the 8 people at her table. One hand at a time.
And for the first time in this tournament, she’s not the shortest stack at the table. In fact, four of the nine are short. One has fewer chips than she does.
No one is towering with a monster, nose-bleed million-chip lead. This is rare. This is leverage. This is how momentum shifts.
So when the cards hit the felt today, Katlyn’s not chasing anything. She’s remembering who she already is.
And she’s playing from the Champion Moment… again.
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