Former high-stakes online heads up poker pro poker, money, ego, life after the game

Los Angeles
Joined February 2026
sitting in front of a screen and knowing i might be playing poker against a 50 year old fart wouldve had me licking my chops 20 years ago 40+ in my book meant insta donk. no questions asked and now here i am almost 50 coming back to online poker after 6 years away completely different life now. family. businesses. responsibilities. all the shit i didnt have to think about when poker was basically my entire existence have i lost my mind midlife crisis very possible since i started posting on here ive had a lot of younger players ask me some version of the same thing is online poker still a viable path is it still beatable is there any dream left in it solvers. ai. rta. everyone getting better i honestly had no idea so i stayed away from giving anyone an answer im 48 now and somehow feel better than i ever have and im going after the same thing i always did becoming one of the best heads up players in the game sitting the high stakes tables keeping them and fighting for them when i have to against players younger than me and probably better prepared than me i have absolutely no idea if i can pull this off but thats kind of the point because if a 48 year old dinosaur who hasnt played in almost 6 years can come back and still become one of the big dogs in online poker then maybe the dream is still alive enjoy the ride or my public embarrassment
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anyway fuck that we rise from the ashes
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No more fucking around. Demon arc starts now. 🦝 My first challenge on here. Not a bankroll challenge. Not a winrate challenge. A STUDY challenge. 100,000 preflop hands in 30 days. 90% correct. Max 0.5% pot loss. Every spot. I start at 86%. 45+ hour job. A life outside poker. Doesn’t matter. Set the goal so big it scares you. Even if I miss, I end up miles ahead of where “realistic” would have taken me. Every day: one hand I got wrong. You guess first. Hold me to it. Which spot would you drill first?
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today marks 1 month of my little self challenge to get back to the top of the heads up food chain after the initial boom and bust, we're pretty much on track all hands played heads up on coinpoker. mostly 10/20 and 25/50, with some 5/10 and 50/100 back up around $30k. but on coin you really have to factor in rewards and bonuses. they're a huge part of the deal. with those we're at $53k (blue line), or around $60k adjusted for all-in ev also switched to @Hand2Note for tracking. works on mac, supports plo4 and plo5, and even tracks rakeback and bonuses as you can see fuck you windows unfortunately most of the biggest losses came at 50/100, the highest stakes i played but oh well i guess theres one thing left to say GucciNike 👀
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vips game of choice lately seems to be 5 card plo hard to fathom. the great illusion of an action game sure, preflop gets looser but postflop everyone is scared shitless of the supernuts stick to 4 cards
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just joined a 5 card bomb pot table as we speak. fml
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friends, whoever told you they never tilt is lying to you everyone, everyone tilts. even the very top of the food chain they just get out of it faster yours truly ts
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admittedly some more than others 👀
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if only i'd done this during my poker and trading days probably would have retired my entire bloodline by now #PlusEVDecisions
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UPDATED video sent from my dad of #Nortefire Very scary stuff. Praying for everyone.
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MAHASAJAN on coinpoker, if you’re reading this, i appreciate you. what a class act i sit at high stakes hu tables, obv leave them unattended often. because… ummm. im a moron the other day MAHASAJAN sits and posts while im away. i time out, lose the blind. have no idea any of this even happened then i get an email from coin saying he sent the money back 20 years ago this would've been considered a mental illness
times have changed player gets grimmed for 1 big blind posts about it on twitter other guy goes yea my bad let me send it back bb returned. everyone friends again mindblowing back then it was the absolute wild west that shit would have been laughed out of the lobby andrew feldman. british guy. the true godfather of bumhunting the euro sites had these high stakes hu sitngos. 10k. 20k. real money and for some insane reason, if a player disconnected while sitting there waiting, the lobby would show it so you could see a crusher sitting a 20k hu sng disconnected click his table game starts nothing he can do and then just blind him out the special thing about our pal andy was that he would do this repeatedly to the same regs he shared lobbies and tables with every day zero shame "see you tomorrow buddy" and yes, i have my own andy story because of that feature i mostly stayed away from the hu sngs but sometimes a whale had been playing them recently, so you sat. waited. hoped one of those days i sat the tables in the morning and started the wait nothing was happening so naturally i decided to use the downtime for some serious self improvement took a nap on the couch wake up to my phone going fucking nuts buddy from finland calling me over and over dude. youre getting blinded into oblivion by haags fuck my life internet is down i run to the neighbors. get online sure enough theres andy and i kid you not, this son of a bitch is clicking raise on the button at the speed of light trying to finish the job and get the fuck out finally i can defend my bb problem is stacks are something like 1k to 19k by now first hand back we get it in double lets motherfucking go still a long way back somehow the deck cooperates and eventually were basically even again and now you could feel it timings. sizings. everything andy is on life tilt he was so fucking close 20k was almost sitting nicely in his piggybank but not so fast jose last hand i still remember i get A♠J♠ flop J♥6♠5♠. top pair. nut flush draw i bet he rips it in almost immediately beautiful only one thing left to do slowroll this fucker into the earth so i tank timebank tank some more right before i hit call i type gg bro. wanna play again? feeling orgasmic call andy turns over 55 set scoops the 20k and disappears and he didnt even say gg
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Is @ClearTradeoffs's interview the most popular piece I've ever written?! I don't know, but at 402 readers within a day I am feeling so proud of what he and I created together. I'm going to bed tonight dancing on a cloud of rainbows. Read it here: open.substack.com/pub/roguer…
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who ends up donating more to the plo economy
82%doug
18%me
418 votes • Final results
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there’s an epidemic of poker player turned crypto guy on here trying so hard to sound cutting edge. every tweet is overly technical, complex, desperate to signal “i’m ahead of the curve.” brother you came from poker and crypto. the two most scammy looking professions to the naked eye. just chill and be yourself.
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an hour ago i was some sort of ai larp now im a real high stakes poker player who writes ai slop we're making progress
I'll like to issue a correction and an apology! I thought this was some chad in the slums of India trying to escape poverty the only way he knows how- fire up 5000 AI slop Twitter accounts, monetize a few which take off, and use his grit to overcome the bad hand he was dealt!
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Check out @ClearTradeoffs's interview, because it is POPPIN' off and you don't want to miss out. open.substack.com/pub/roguer… Thank you for liking, bookmarking, quote & retweeting it, and following TS and myself. What can't two storytellers with a passion for poker accomplish?
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks. Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously. I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview: substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
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Two of the nicest humans in poker had a chat ☺️
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks. Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously. I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview: substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
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Nice read. Well thought out questions. Good answers. Exactly what I expected. Excellent work!
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks. Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously. I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview: substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
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someone thought interviewing cookie monster was a good idea enjoy
I have a big ole "brain crush" on @ClearTradeoffs, which means I adore how his mind thinks. Imo he is the best storyteller the poker community has on Twitter. His tweets are impossible not to pop popcorn to and enjoy voraciously. I had the pleasure of interviewing him, which I am proud to present as Rogue Railbird's first interview: substack.com/@roguerailbird/…
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a few of you asked where the tip came from my dads best friend to this day, whenever the subject comes up, my dad says: “youre welcome. you have $2m worth of land instead of zero. you wouldve lost it all gambling anyway”
20 years ago i made $1m playing online poker well, technically i'd made a million before. lost it in 3 days. but thats another story this was the first one i actually got to keep and i was determined not to blow it someone close to me tipped me off about a piece of foreign land that was supposedly close to getting zoning approval. once that came through, the value was meant to 4x i knew absolutely nothing about investing. did basically no research so naturally i yolo'd the entire $1m into it fast forward 20 years still no zoning. land worth around $2m on paper meanwhile the s&p roughly 8x'd over the same period lesson in there
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20 years ago i made $1m playing online poker well, technically i'd made a million before. lost it in 3 days. but thats another story this was the first one i actually got to keep and i was determined not to blow it someone close to me tipped me off about a piece of foreign land that was supposedly close to getting zoning approval. once that came through, the value was meant to 4x i knew absolutely nothing about investing. did basically no research so naturally i yolo'd the entire $1m into it fast forward 20 years still no zoning. land worth around $2m on paper meanwhile the s&p roughly 8x'd over the same period lesson in there
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