Hey guys,

I will be streaming for the first time EVER today at 7:00 (East Coast) 4:00 (West Coast) ACR's $1050 THE CAGE and some cash games on the side.

Here is a short Bio about me:

I Started playing poker in the beginning of 2007 while in high school on a $300 deposit. I played obsessively for a year straight. At the end of the year had turned $300 into $17,000.

After attending college for a semester I found that it was really cutting into my grinding hours. I dropped out and decided to basically go all-in on poker, playing full time. I ended up turning a $17,000 bankroll into over $250,000 by that November when I decided to fly down to Costa Rica to celebrate my success. Pokerstars was hosting an LAPC down there, which I decided to participate in. I ended up winning my first ever live tournament, The 2008 LAPC Costa Rica Main Event for over $280k. Easy game

I've since gone on to play and beat the biggest stakes online, including $200/$400 Heads up vs Wilhasha and Durrrr as well as $300/$600 and $500/$1000 vs Isildur.

In 2014 I decided to take on big buy-in live tournaments. It worked out pretty well; I won the WPT San Jose High Roller for $125,000 I took second in both the Florida $100,000 Super High Roller for $307k and the APPT 1.5M HK (185k USD) Super High Roller for ~$1.3M and finished 5th in the WPT 5 Diamond World Poker Classic for $272k on my way to cashing for over $2.5M on the year.

I now focus most of my energy on cash games, while coaching on the side, making content for upswing, and mixing in the occasional tournament.

link to your stream?

I read your beginners 6-max cash game guide years ago, it really helped my game early on. That's crazy how successful you became, congrats.

This.
I will be following for sure, glgl

Am I mis-reading, or does it say that Ryan won a high roller and got paid only $125,000 for first?

And another +1 to the link request.

https://www.twitch.tv/upswingpoker/v/54901336

stream cs go pls?

Lol, that probably would have helped, sorry guys.
https://www.twitch.tv/upswingpoker


I'm glad it helped! Me and WCG have done a basically super updated version of it, check out our site.

I regged and everyone decided to sitout :P

Sadly yes, it only got 10 runners

Thanks coach
Lol yeah maybe at some point, need to get back to LEM first

Also I played and WON THEEEEEE CAAAAAAAAGGGGGGEEEEEEEEEEE!!

You can watch the VOD here:

https://www.twitch.tv/upswingpoker/profile

Thanks for tuning in!

Is it also a pdf or are you referring to the "Upswing Lab"?

Congrats nonetheless, and The Cage stream was better than I expected, actually quite well done imo. Best of luck with the stream and the web site.

Upswing Lab
Thanks bro

hey ryan, good idea on the new website but it feels like there is just too much pictures and info on the front page. It would look so much better on the eyes when its more clean imo

Stream going live in 15 minutes.

Thanks for tuning it, had a blast. Congrats to @****it2kg for winning the $147 5% retweet drawing!

Defending my Cage title in 12 minutes. Probably stream for 4-5 hours.

Trying to go BACK to BACK to BACK as THE CAGE Champion in about 1.5 hours.

Looking forward to it. I watched the first stream you did on your new channel. It was awesome. The flavor is obviously different than Doug Polk's stream, though of course he is also awesome.

Would be pretty legendary to take the cage down again.

it was fun to watch Ryan but I felt there was something annoying about you playing too many tables, felt like you had too much on your plate

I feel you did a pretty decent job of answering questions from chat but sometimes you were trying not to timeout while taking care of twitch etc. I think it would be much smoother and audience wouldn't miss any of the action if you didn't go above 4 tables

so yeah anyway looking forward to the next stream, keep up the good work!

Thanks for the feedback fayth.

I may try and do less tables next time (streaming tomorrow at 12:00 PST). Still getting used to playing/talking/switching.

I did make one monumental mistake, I didn't drink caffeine before the stream. Will never do that again .

Confirmed Cage GOAT

Thanks for that blade runhot AJ. Going to be using that next wednesday to get my motha ****in belt back.

Stream going live in 20 min.

Going live with Kitty Kuo in 10 minutes!!!

Nice multi accounting with kitty. View bots > account sharing on twitch

Would be better if you could finish articulating your thought instead of pausing the sentence half way, doing something on the side (other monitor) and then starting your sentence like 3 times again. Hard listening to tbh. Keep it up!