Ashley Colpaart Colorado businesswoman Ashley Colpaart , like many others, discovered and fell in love with the game of poker during the COVID-19 lockdown period. Less than two years later, she crossed off a bucket list item — playing in the World Series of Poker .
With boredom setting in for millions of people around the world in early 2020, many found new hobbies. In certain cases, it was poker. Private online home games began popping up replacing live poker, which was on a hiatus due to the pandemic. For Colpaart, she was invited to a private poker community during a time in which there wasn’t much else to do. Business Owner First
Colpaart, who sat down for an interview with PokerNews during her first visit to the Rio, is a successful businesswoman who owns The Food Corridor , a unique concept for shared kitchen managers.
“I come from food, my whole background is pretty much in food and food systems,” Colpaart said. “I’m really interested in local food and local food economies. I was working on my PhD at Colorado State University in food systems. For my project, I was looking at underutilized assets in the food space and how they could be leveraged to support local food economies and I kind of landed on this sharing of the economy in the food space.”
The Food Corridor, her pride and joy, manages shared kitchen spaces with ease. Her business streamlines the process for shared kitchen owners, assisting them in numerous ways, including tracking down payments and other time consuming business tasks. Discovering a New Passion
On Saturday, Colpaart took a seat in Event #4: $500 The Reunion No-Limit Hold’em , her first World Series of Poker event. In doing so, she crossed off a bucket list item. But she never would have guessed she’d be playing in a poker tournament a couple years ago.
“I like games just in general, we have board game nights and things like that,” Colpaart said of her interest in poker prior to the pandemic. “So, I played poker in the past, but never for cash or […]
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