As one of the two founders of HCL, Ryan is a bit of a black box to me and I am interested to know more about him. Nick already has his own thread*, so here’s Ryan’s.

- I know he is a poker player
- He used to run live at the bike
- What else is out there about him?

* https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...tucci-1804382/

He worked for espn at some point.

Pretty sure that man is a saint tbh

Like Robbi, he calls bleffs.

NoLimitCoin ad brings back memories.

he was a prop player for the bike I saw his interview with joey i think years ago?

Prop player to being able to play sometimes on the streamed games? He must be a pretty great poker player and/or LATB/Hustler streams are very lucrative gigs.



Now that it’s out that Bryan from HCL has a criminal record, I wonder who was in charge of hiring for HCL? Nick? Ryan? Someone else from the casino?

Ryan contradicted Garrett’s version of events regarding the money, so I’m not sure what you mean

Actually, now that I think more about it, who’s in charge of screening the players? Nick? Ryan? Someone else?

First Lucky and Mikki, and now potential cheaters?

Don’t forget skills rocks or whatever the guy that saw his neighbors cards

If you take the time to watch his interview you’ll get a very well informed picture of him : https://youtu.be/qsA8yswF7JU

I watched the whole interview, and he comes across as a very hard working, professional and creative person, also very level headed and with great people skills.

Assuming he has no involvement with the likely cheating that has recently happened, and I think that is an extremely safe assumption, I feel sorry for him that HCL may be in some kind of jeopardy as things stand, whether it be because players might be put off playing or because of a lot of additional costs to tighten up the operation and/or legal fees.

I don't know him, but my instinct is that he will find a way of bouncing back even stronger.

Sometimes it takes something bad to happen, one big step back, to enable 5 big steps forward after it.

I have noticed in life, that at the very moment that you think you have something solved and perfect, that is when something negative out of blue happens,
and even more so and more often if you tell others that you have something perfect and solved, which is what Nick Vertucci and Ryan Feldman did in the interview,
they were both very positive about the whole HCL set up.

They weren't bragging as such, but they did express how great their team was and how all team members were given autonomy to do a great job for the team, above and beyond their official work load and responsibilities.

Well this has appeared to have gone badly wrong, with what appears to be one rogue employee, or possibly more than one, and as others ITT mentioned, no screening of players.

Perhaps some screening needs to be done in future. Sure, a lot of poker players, at all buy ins, have a shady past or present, buy maybe there should still be a line, over which a player is not welcomed.

I feel like I’ve seen this name in poker for close to 20 years. Am I mistaken?

Regarding screening of players, and Nick Vertucci specifically as a player in the game, some people (ex customers of his business/businesses) allege that he sold services to them that they considered were either a scam or were not worth the money he charged.

I have not done any research into this, so I don't know neither the merit nor the veracity of these claims, and I do not allege that any of it is true.

But let's say for discussion's sake that there is some truth in it and Nick Vertucci was screened before being accepted as a player in the HCL game, then these kind of business / customer civil disputes IMO would fall just below the line of not being welcomed to play, as they are not criminal offences (they are civil disputes) and they are probably not of an extreme enough nature to bar someone from playing a game of poker.

I must emphasise that I do not know if said customers' claims have any merit.

Slimeball since he associates with Vick Nertucci.

Ryan was a minority owner in Live At the Bike for the time he was managing it. His share wa bought out when he and other owners had some kind of disagreement.

My opinion is he's an honest guy who wants an honest business, but he's willing to look the other way when it's obvious the money coming to the table is from a dubious source.

I haven’t watched it yet but plan to skim it. However, I’m hesitant to take anyone’s opinion about themself at face value.

is it hustlers job to screen someone whos allowed into a casino. Generally if you have money and can get in the casino no one cares so why should a production company running a game in a casino? Lets be honest getting the sleeze bags like mikki and skillsrocks is great content. also people are innocent untill proven guilty or and that should apply with the ability to play poker. its not really ryans job to know if the money being used in his game is from a drug dealer

For two main reasons: (both equally as important)

a) If something goes wrong (e.g. cheating, a fist fight, or something else very negative) in the regular part of the casino, the casino can absorb the bad publicity (that's even if there is any publicity about it), because it's one incident out of a large group of customers, whereas if such a thing happens in a live streamed poker game, it is bound to attract negative publicity, thus likely damaging the live stream's brand.

b) There is way more scope for cheating in a live streamed game (RFID cards, inside job etc), so if you're running a live stream game you would preferably not want to have known criminals playing in it.

hear from Ryan himself:

David Tuchman's Under the Gun Podcast No. 180: Ryan Feldman starts a new Adventure (Nov 14, 2020) 142 mins

Ryan Feldman talks about the crazy journey it's been from his days back at ESPN, to Live at the Bike and now Hustler Casino Live

https://crushlivepoker.com/podcasts/...-new-adventure

What I know about Feldman: he used to be chubbier.

He seems like a solid guy and HCL is great for poker IMHO

Supposedly this was posted on Reddit but I can’t find it. If anyone knows where it’s posted, please link it.



Wanna hear some fun facts?

Around 2016, LudaChris was a 5/5 grinder at the Bike and a complete nit who wouldn't participate in bomb pots because his backer would "kill him."

Once Feldman started producing LATB, LudaChris started appearing on the show and began making incredible plays. We're talking 5 bets with air when his opponent had nothing. We're talking laying down AA on the flop to one bet when his opponent flopped a set. It's all there in the LATB archives if someone wants to actually look.

In one year, LudaChris moved to the highest stakes and won nearly 300k on LATB, this was unheard of at the time in the mid-stakes games. LudaChris went full god mode and crushed it. At the same time, Feldman was a prop at the Bike and by many accounts, was losing heavily and in significant debt. All around the Bike and the show's player pool, rumors of cheating started to bubble up. Dan Zack went so far as to calculate Chris' hourly and win rate and said while it wasn't "impossible" it was "highly improbable."

This was all before the Postle scandal, so cheating a stream wasn't really thought of as much...but you want to know who LudaChris' roommate was?

It was Ryan Feldman.

And when local poker community discovered that, you never saw LudaChris play on the show again. Feldman was soon removed from his duties on the show, and the owners and the casino swept everything under the rug to save face at the bike.

There's a reason why Feldman is so quiet.

To me that just sounds like ludachris probably bought bitcoin at the right time

Mods, can you remove this please?

Almost none of what your wrote is true at all

I’m happy to answer any question about this topic or almost any topic. I have nothing to hide.

But I can’t let people post straight lies about me or anything related to me

You either got really bad info from someone who has something against me or you’re lying for some agenda you have