Inside the Rise of Poker Streams: Big Wins & Big Risks | Ryan Feldman DSH #1354

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So, um, yeah, I think I've always been good at like being self-aware and like being able to evaluate after a session or after a run and, and, and say like, how do I fix this? What can I do different? But, you know, knowing and doing are two different things.

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So sometimes in the moment you get into a big spot and, you know, you just can't help yourself and you just like try to run a big bluff and it doesn't work.

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Do you feel like you do that partially because of content too? Like you want to get a good clip out of it?

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On the show, yes. But like in private, if I'm playing like online with friends, like there's no content to be had. So then it's just stupid. But yeah, on the show, yes. You know, I've, it's my own show. I get to pick when I get to play and not play. I don't play a whole lot. But when I do play, it's in some of the bigger games.

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And so because I get to pick my own lineups and play when I want, you would think that I would do like pretty well on the show, right? Like if the game's too tough, I just don't have to play.

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Especially tilting that it went to Nick Airball because then I have to like watch him, you know, celebrate and talk about it a million times after that. And the clip went kind of viral. But, you know, that's pretty tilting when you're like...

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He's gotta be up. He had, I remember he had one really big win on his show. I mean, and Doug's also like a world-class player. He doesn't,

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play as much now as he did during his prime and um he definitely does some things i'm sure on his show for entertainment value tries to like play extra hands because he understands how to be good for the game but he's a great player and um he knows how to win and and yeah he has a lot of money but i i'm pretty sure he's winning on his show yeah who's the best player you've ever personally played against you couldn't figure them out

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Oh man, good question. The best player I've ever played against, I couldn't figure out. I don't know, but the person who I've actually had the toughest time with, I think, is Alan Keating. Really? And Alan Keating's probably nowhere near the best player overall, all things considered, or at least fundamentally, that I've played against. But his style doesn't match up well with my style.

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You know, I'm trying to be aggressive, trying to play a lot of hands. I'm three betting, four betting a lot. I'm calling three bets and four bets a lot. I'm trying to play big pots. He does the same thing, but he does it way better. He's more experienced at it. He has way more money. And so... I just constantly level myself.

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And even if I'm not losing a big pot to him, um, which I have plenty of times when he's in the game, it just like throws me off my game. And I end up just playing poorly cause I don't know how to navigate. Um, when someone like him is in the game and he, like I played a, uh, we, we played on poker go a few months ago. It just aired recently. And, uh, it was high stakes poker and it was a big game.

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Right. And he's been very wealthy for a long time and he's played in private games, organized games, been part of big games. But, you know, Dan Bilzerian back in the day, same thing, you know, but it's like until they're on camera and you get big on social media, you know, people don't know about them. Right.

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No one really in the real world knew Alan Keating was before he played on our show and then played on poker go a lot as well. now, you know, everyone wants to know where he got his money from. Same thing with Nick Airball. You know, he's been playing a lot of poker off camera, you know, more than on camera the last few years.

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But, you know, because he's this interesting character, people want to know, like, you know, people can't accept the fact that, like, maybe, you know, he's a character on the show, but he's actually, like, doing really well in these private games or he's made money investing or who knows what a lot of these guys are doing. But there's plenty of ways to make money both in poker and out of poker.

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And, you know, everybody because of the internet wants to get in their business and know like, where does this money come from?

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Yeah. You guys really did put a spotlight on those underground games though. You know, you guys get crazy views.

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Um, super nice guy Everybody that asked for an autograph or a picture he did it. Wow um he's a huge deal. So it's, it's really an honor to get Neymar on our show. Like this is a show that we just created based on our vision. And it's at hustler casino in Gardena, California. Like just thinking about that compared to some of the big poker shows out there.

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And back in the day, like high stakes poker and the poker ghost stuff, you know, the fact that we've gotten someone big like Neymar on our show is really cool. Um, But yeah, it was awesome. And he won a few hundred thousand dollars. Yeah. He won like three because Alan Keating played a crazy hand against Neymar at the end of the show where they did this unique thing.

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And the clips out there in the internet, if you haven't seen it, that really has never been done before on a show where they get it all in. Neymar wins. Then Keating says, wait, wait, wait, wait, let's run it again for another 50. Just the last card. Let's run the river card for another 50,000. Neymar wins that. He says, wait, let's do it again. And every time Keating was 25 or 30%.

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So he was an underdog, but just did it anyway for fun to gamble with Neymar. So he puts another 50,000, another 100,000, and he just keeps gambling until he's out of money. And Neymar wins every single time. Keating never won on any of those extra river cards. And Neymar ends up winning something like 300,000 off of Keating in one hand. Wow.

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a straight degeneracy yeah it really was it's one of the coolest hands we've ever had on our show that's cool so hopefully uh namar will come back this summer and we'll have another big celebrity show i'm sure i know it's three years away but the olympics is gonna be really cool for you since it's in la i'm sure you could get some i haven't even thought about that but that's that's a good point 2028 yeah you could probably get all the athletes that would be cool um i have a vision for one day having a

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And the guy who, uh, Brad like bad Brad in the, in the, in the movie, in the book from that game, he's a real person. Um, gets it all in with Ace-King on Queen-7-7 against Pocket Queen, so he's basically drawing dead, and it goes either King-King or Ace-Ace, and he wins the hand. The guy who had Queens, I know that guy. I played a lot of poker with him.

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I can't say who it is, but, you know, so that part is real, for example. The part where the guy... in the movie, just goes off one night for like a million dollars and then tells Molly afterwards that he can't pay, right? And they play like all night long. That's a real guy. That guy is Houston Curtis. People know him. He's still around. Did he ever pay that?

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I think in the movie, I assume this is accurate, but I don't know. I think the Tobey Maguire character, who's the Michael Cera character, ended up like making a deal with him to stake him to pay the money back. But I've heard the story about like who was in the game that night and like what happened and how the game went like overnight till the next day.

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And people started waking up and coming to play because they heard Houston Curtis was on tilt. So these are real stories, real things that happened. It's like, it seems hard to believe. Like it's, I mean, it's a great movie, but, Poker was huge in the private game scene back in that era in Hollywood in like 2006 to 2009, whenever that was.

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I would have loved to be around it, but unfortunately I wasn't in the scene like that back then. But, you know, it's pretty cool to hear the stories about all these celebrities that were playing so big back then.

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Okay. Yeah. That was a crazy one. Yeah. I know people that he owes money to Nick airball being one of them, but yeah, Bruce K you, that's a situation that's so interesting. And you see that a lot. He was the nicest guy ever. He was so friendly. Um, People did not suspect that he was going to be a scammer. And then all of a sudden, one day, he just skips town and owes people money.

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Like a million, right? I don't know how much it ended up being, but it was a lot. And I've seen situations like that so many times. And it's like, you know, I learn as time goes on, like... you have to be more careful and I'll warn people too. Like, Hey, you know, be careful. Don't do that. Don't do that. Like I'll, I'll use my experiences to kind of tell other people. Yeah.

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But, um, it's just tough when you're involved in games, you're playing in games, you're organizing games, you're doing, you know, it's just like, you're going to come up with situations once in a while where, you know, someone owes you for whatever the reason is. And, um, you know, most of the time it's, it's no big deal, but sometimes it's just, people aren't honest about their situation.

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Like I've had situations where, you know, we're playing in a, you know, we, we, we have like an online game. We'll play sometimes a rake free game, just a bunch of friends. We're all really close. We hang out, like we all trust each other. Right. Totally like just legit cleanest, most fun game that you can imagine. Right. once in a blue moon, we'll have somebody who's super wealthy.

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They're maybe not a billionaire, but like, you know, nine figure net worth. And all of a sudden they just go off for like an absurd amount. And then afterwards tell you, shit, I messed up. Um, I'm going to need a lot of time to pay that. Like, I'm just not liquid right now. Why didn't you tell us that before you decided to gamble that big?