Australia’s most successful female poker player, Jackie is returning to Survivor with a new attitude and experience to back her. She says, “Last time being on a Champions tribe, with a lot of athletes, all they cared about was winning challenges and that’s not me. I’m here to play the full game of Survivor, I understand the challenges are part of it but it’s the game play back at camp that I really want that whole experience this time.”

After appearing on Australian Survivor: Champions v Contenders, Jackie has moved to Queensland with her husband and childhood sweetheart who has helped get her ready to return to Survivor saying, “I’m extremely lucky to be married to a mental performance coach, so we’ve worked a lot on the mental game of poker so I’m using those skills here as well.

Jackie is excited to embrace the Villain side of herself and knows that playing with a team of them will be very different to what she experienced the first time around. As a huge fan of the game, she also knows the types of players she’ll be drawn to and the ones to avoid.

She says, “I’m going to be staying away from those chaotic, kind of volatile players. I think early on I need to surround myself with people I can somewhat trust and that’s the way I’m going to be playing this game, look for those connections early and hopefully they’ll get me through to merge and then I re-adjust as needed.”