Originally Posted by Ryan Feldman
1. He didn’t move to LA til 2017
2. He wasn’t some professional grinder who moved up in stakes by crushing the game. He came from a non-poker background.
3. He was not staked back then. Is not staked now. He’s always had money to my knowledge. But was new-ish to live poker, was still learning, and there weren’t good bigger games than 5/5 at the time unless it was on the show.
4. He has always played the same more or less. I remember playing with him when he was new to LA in 5/5 and 5/10 and he’s always been rather wild and creative. It’s hard to play that crazy in smaller capped games though. Ask some bike 5/5 and 5/10 regulars from 2017 and they’ll tell you.
5. I have no clue how much he won or lost back then on stream but he definitely didn’t crush it as far as I remember. I do remember he went on a 1-2 month heater at one point. “Full
God mode and crushed it” is LOL. I wish someone would go look. I remember one ante game where he lost 60k alone.
6. He started playing the show before I knew him well. I gave him a shot in smaller games and he proved that he was good for the show, so he started playing the ante game after we started running that, and he was quickly a popular player. We became friends after that.
7. We were roommates for about a year because I liked the building he lived in and I wanted to get out of the place I was in with some other poker players I knew from the east coast in an area I wasn’t enjoying. I liked living in a place with a gym and being near KBBQ restaurants.
8. I was “losing heavily and in significant debt”? Lol. I remember one short period where I ever borrowed/owed anyone money. I’ve never been in significant debt in my life. Even if I downswinged hard, I was getting paid from latb and propping so I was always fine.
9. I was not “removed”. Anyone telling you that is lying for some reason, probably for their own agenda. I quit because I didn’t get along with the other owners, particularly one owner who thought becoming an owner meant he gets to play in the juicy games I was organizing. When I didn’t let him because the recs didn’t want to play with him, he revolted by spreading rumors and talking **** about me, some of which was probably fed to you thru the grapevine. If any of it was true, why didn’t any owner ever put it out public? Cuz it was 0% true and it was done out of pure jealousy. I explain this more or less in some of the podcasts I did. I have the emails saved of my withdrawal notice and their emails begging me to stay by offering me more money after I gave them ultimatums. Anyone saying I was “removed” is a straight liar.
I never hid any of this. Only they did. Cuz they were scared to tell people that they let me quit cuz they knew I was the main force in keeping their show relevant. If any bit of it was true, if they actually believed I was “removed” for any reason, they would’ve publicized it. But it was all lies so they stayed quiet cuz they knew their show would go downhill once people knew I was gone.
Literally ask me anything. I have zero to hide. But I’m not gonna let someone post straight up lies about me on a public forum.
