The offcial thread of poker's most exciting player

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"This guy is a special talent" - Nick Schulman
"The greatest poker player" - HCL Poker Clips
"Alan Keating is the single best thing that ever happened to modern poker" - Özcan Atmaca

good thread, lots of stories and anecdotes about this exciting man.

Hi Alan, please DM teh noodz of the girl.

Insanely fun player to watch. He’s like a less disciplined Rick Solomon, which sounds insane.

Lost a little respect for him when he threw a hissy fit over Ryan not giving him ownership in HCL, and saying he’d never appear on their show again on some podcast a year or two or three ago. Seemed like a douche.

But then, he did.

It’s also weird that he won’t just admit he’s loaded from his family. Why be so mysterious? Who cares.

But guy’s got charisma, and probably said the funniest line ever on HCL when that gothboi scammer said he didn’t have an alarm clock (or wake up to an alarm) and Keating deadpanned ‘what if the office calls?’

And if he had a hand in kicking that POS Garret off the stream, all the better.

Hes a fun player with some good instincts but these quotes by professionals in OPs post are just trademark "glaze the whale" comments.

He’s aggressive in a game of loose passive players and has good reads on the players he’s up against.

Alan Keating is really smart on the hustle side of poker.

The dude was making tons of neg EV bets with Neymar on stream and got clowned for it on here. If he got an invite to play in Neymar’s games, that’s printing.

You can say whatever you want about his style but I’m confident he’s up piles lifetime.

also, he's better at poker than most people give him credit for, provided that he plays for stakes he actually cares about. He plays like a good (but super loose) live reg from, let's say, around 2012, which I would assume is when he studied the game. Uses his reputation to get paid in extremely thin spots and also makes some very good exploitative folds, which is basically how you win all the money in a soft live game.

He's obviously losing chunks of ev by playing absurd ranges preflop, but that's what gets him invites and fame, plus it's obv more fun to play this way

Anyone who didn't understand what he was doing with Neymar is clueless. A bunch of people who practically have seat change buttons tattooed on their wrist who don't understand long term ev.

Keating is awesome.

He plays in curated lineups with only the biggest whales in the world. And I think he just broke into the black on HCL? Probably gaining a lot of value in unseen private games, but people are definitely going a bit overboard gassing him up.

I do agree that a lot of pros could learn a thing or two from him on how to act like a human being.

If Mike "the human parasite" Matusow can get his own thread so should Keating.

Check his YT, he adds little stories / narrations to his videos more on the entertainment side of things. They're great.

I feel like it's been very vague how he has acquired his wealth. I think i've heard movie investment, crypto, weed with Bilzerian, playing in private games and venture capital as explanations.

Doug had a long podcast with him and apart from talking about movie investment they pretty much skipped the entire topic.

People want to act like this isn't a part of playing poker, but it's arguably the most important part, and he's also one of the best at it.

So is this where we pretend he is a crusher so he keeps donating in big games?

I have never met him nor know anything about him other than what I've seen on TV, but here is my guess....


movie investment - Likelihood of making money investing in movies is extremely low. It's estimated that less than 4% of indie films make any profit at all, let alone enough to make you "wealthy"

weed with Bilzerian - Bilzerian's weed company lost $43 million on expenses related to marketing and promotion (plus office rent) last year. So unless Keating was funded by Ignite for marketing purposes, it's unlikely his wealth came from there.

playing in private games - You need wealth BEFORE you are rolled to play in private games the size he is rumored to play in. You do not get wealthy from playing in those private games if you weren't wealthy already.

venture capital - Not a chance he made any significant money in venture capital on his own. People who make money in VC are dedicated to it. They are not jet setting around the world playing poker. It is the rare occasion that someone his age, working full time as a venture capitalist, would be able to have accumulated the wealth needed to be rolled for the poker stakes he is playing.

crypto - Perhaps, if he somehow luckboxed into investing huge in Bitcoin pre 2011, and then managed to hold onto the entire amount without ever selling anything, then maybe this is his source of funds. But that seems unlikely, given almost nobody could have diamond hands like that, nor would a 25 year old Keating likely had the amount needed or the foresight necessary to invest in crypto back then to amass a nine figure roll today.

inheritance - If the money he is gambling is truly his own, then I would guess that inheritance is the most likely source.

it wouldn't surprise me if he made a lot of money in bitcoin especially if he got in early.

where'd this dude get money probably not from grinding.... probably not self-made either, not that it matters too much..

he's a class act and fun to watch

Interesting breakdown- agree with some, disagree with others.

I don’t remember where I heard this (would be great if someone can find it), but iirc Alan spoke somewhere about how he was pretty broke at some point and used to grind $2/$5 at Aria. He didn’t have a car and was getting rides from one of the staff (or dealers?) there. I believe he mentioned that story because of reflecting on how he tries to pay it forward by doing the generous holiday tips annually.

Think it decreases the chances a bit of “rich family inheritance”, or else why did he go through a period of broke $2/$5 grinding? Unless it was sudden and unexpected (like a family member died).

I still think crypto might be most likely. First live stream was a $100/$200 in 2019.

Also not impossible that he found backers for nosebleed private games, or for high stakes private games before moving up to nosebleeds.

As stack sizes get deeper, I feel like Alan's edge increases because he's good at attacking players with scared money. His preflop game seems really awful, but he makes up for it postflop depending on the lineup. I hope Alan doesn't ever go broke, because he seems like a solid dude and plays in an entertaining way.

am I missing something here? lol

HeÂ’s been around poker a long time. A lot of mid/high stakes players in 2010-2015 era went heavy into crypto. After Black Friday it was pretty necessary to use it to move money to and from sites+people just used it a lot for debts/transfers etc. There used to be a thread on here that was very active for crypto swaps/transfers. That said I never heard about him being heavily invested like Aussie MattÂ… he always has vague answers related to his wealth like bilzerian so usually in poker means inheritance.

FWIW he’s always said venture capitalist even before he got exposure but I’ve never heard of any project associated with him.

definitely seems like old money. like his grandfather on his mom's side invented the stethoscope or something

I don’t think old money hangs out with scammy, new money guys like Bilzerian.

I like watching Keating, he's an interesting guy: High VPIP, social, talkative, etc.

But I hate the Keating fanboys that no matter what provide him plot-armor
1. He's not playing good because he's so rich he's just having a good time, you wish you were rich and could just splash around with 93o pre for 50 Bigs

2. He's not playing good because he's advertising for home games, where he plays $50K/$100K and wins millions on the reg, bro. He's happy to lose 2M on stream, that loss nets him 900M in private games.

3. He played that hand so badly, and didn't raise with the 2nd nuts because he doesn't wanna kill the fish, sheer the sheep instead. Also, he respects the opponent so much he was being nice...

It gets old, he can do no wrong to a certain percentage of viewers

The million dollar cash game is a private game and i guess you need to call raises with 84o to be invited.