FFS he’s playing again today. I need him to run bad for a stretch, hopefully that will reduce his appearances to perhaps once a week.

Watching Matusow play is like time traveling back to 2005
Plays like 2005, does the DNEGS stuff where he knows the hands post mortem...

"I know you had 48s or air, it's 48 or nothing", gets showed KJ, "Ya that was the other one I thought you could have"

OK

I appreciate HCL. There was a huge shortage of cash poker content and they filled it. There's no good reason for Nick or Ryan to ever play in the stream.

If Nick plays or commentates, I instantly turn to something else. He didn't used to be so bad as a player on LATB, only his nitrolls and tanking annoyed me. Now his ego is big, he's loud, and gratingly annoying.

Guy who does mushrooms opens AK to $300
"Kennedy" 3B $2K KThh
Mushroom turns over AKo, is like "What should I do? All in"
Kennedy calls 9K more... ... ... WITH the information that he's way, way, behind

Don't let anyone tell you these guys aren't good

Friday is now headed by this Dylan nit and Art Papazyn
Yikes

Yeah, the whales are not showing up anymore (where is Bill Klein, Julie for example?). Doesn't help when Garrett and the show admitted that certain players were allowed to play on the show because Garrett thought he could beat them. It says a lot when Art was thought to be banned from the show (because of Garrett probably) is now appearing. Doesn't seem Ryan can attract as many players to play 50/100 anymore.

An announcement

The Lucky Lady DGAF poker show has no hole cards?
Honestly, what’s the point? I guess the DGAF gimmick is that it’s just a hang?

Good luck with the 1,450 views. He goes into zero details on why he quit, and won’t be playing in the softest games in the history of live poker

Bruce Buffer played on Monday, finished down 2k. He got coolered KK < AA.

Last time I saw him at a poker table was on Phil Gordon’s 2005 “training” video, Final Table Poker.

The beginning of HCL destruction has begun .

Dude is one of the main players accused in hcl cheating allegations who had direct contact with Bryan and the infamous Seat 2 . I feel like this resignation was more like a distraction for people who accuse hcl of cheating .

I don't like the dude and he has me blocked on his twitter .

Let me get something of my chest that's been bothering me for a long time . I used to be a 5-5 / 5-10 poker reg at the bicycle casino pre-covid and as far as i remember Ryan used to play 5/5 or 5/10 the most that he used to do 5-10k buys the most .

Has HCL show really generated billion dollar revenue for him to play in high stake games min buy 100k deep now a days and he make those wild plays ? Don't get me wrong my rants are not coming cause of jealousy not at all . It's just amazing why no body has questioned this dude how did he upped his game this fast ?

Nothing burger. No cheating. No Special seat 2 advantage.

Ryan’s a millionnaire now and able to play high stakes.

Move on

Instead of laying down insults first understand what's fundamentally is even being discussed about .

Respect goes a long way

I agree, here’s some proof

I know you didn't like the other response above because a lack of respect. But in all honesty your tone and some of your points seem like a young clueless teenager wrote them. With that being said:

I can see your point about Ryan playing in those huge games. It's been discussed before. One of the reasons your post is so silly is being amazed nobody questioned it when it has been. I wonder myself. HCL has the #1 stream and is very successful. But..even if they make say $5 million profit each year and him and Nick split it 50/50 and take home $1.5mil each year.. Can you really afford to drop a couple hundred thousand with no sweat like Ryan has done?

Maybe he makes a lot more then that from the stream legitimately. Maybe there is some shady stuff under the table. Doesn't have to be cheating, maybe just kickbacks, etc for getting pros in certain games, who knows.

-just because he is playing 100x bigger, doesn't mean he stepped up his game, just means he is rich now!
-you don't have to make a billion dollars to play in these games!


Regarding DGAF....

Going to miss him, thought he was funny commentating. Doesn't have to be a big contraversy for him to quit. HCL is Ryan and Nick are the main guys and the ones getting rich. It seems from all I've seen and heard they treat their people well. While DGAF was probably one of the highest paid HCL people he as probably on salary and not going a % or profits and not getting rich. Being as popular as he is and knowing as much as he knows he wants to give his own project a shot instead of being capped at HCL. That happens in a lot of businesses. The top talent runs into a ceiling with their employer and start their own business, often in the same field. Doesn't mean there is any animosity.

DGAF is taking a shot. I wish him luck.

DGAF has been broke for years. For him to quit a guaranteed income stream and the HCL exposure he got means something definitely happened behind the scenes.

The thing is, this DGAF “shot take” is just another stream with literally no hole cards, or production or bells and whistles.

That’s not really a “shot” that’s just a shitty inferior product

yea i don't get the whole no hole cards thing at all? Who is it meant to appeal to ?

What is not mentioned here is that Sia will be a special guest dealer

Looks like a perfectly fair game

BYO anal beads

I was watching this live, I should have guessed

Multiple Reddit threads seem to think Airball has been banned from the Hustler for selling/swapping chips. I know I've heard him on HCL talking about how he isn't allowed to sell/swap chips amymore, or that nobody is. And apparently he continued to do so

So maybe it's true

Weird. He’s doing HCL a favor being a proxy bank.

Just like nick Vertucci, Bruce Buffer is not a selling point for Max Pain Monday. Man is he boring.

At least DGAF was fun to root against, and was engaging. Even when he was losing it was fun to watch him become a somber sore loser

The show has noticeably gotten worse. Fridays essentially suck... It's like Zeo and pre-taped shows with short stacks, this Dan guy is somewhat interesting to watch but he's basically a robot.

Zero interesting regs, no fun whales anymore like Ben and Tiger, Reza, Krish, Dentist Dave etc.