Alan Keating - The Official Thread

I love watching him play. He definitely does dumb **** and has degenerate in him. He also does some brilliant **** and likes turning deep stacked poker into a game of chicken.

The second nuts just calling on the river- it's bad. He cost himself a lot of money. But anyone who thinks he did it out of respect for Peter is an idiot. If he had any clue Peter was that strong he raises. If it's heads up he raises. He figured Peter had nothing and was hoping Texas Mike would implode as he was the preflop raiser.

The fan boys who think he can do no wrong are annoying. But even more annoying are the people who think they're poker gods when they say he shouldn't call with some piece of **** hand preflop and "if only I had the money I'd crush that game".

He's actually now up small (relatively speaking) on HCL- 400k. Obviously that can go away very quickly with the way he plays. I'd be surprised if he was down in the big private games in Vegas and LA but at the end of the day he's the only one who knows for sure.

Next to Foxen the man is God. We must bow. Wonder if he has seen Brittney's boobs. They are epic.

I love reading comments on reddit, here, or even from friends in real life who think Keating is some whale who made a bunch of money in crypto and now donks off.

Keating, Salomon, etc are the apex predators of the high stakes poker games. You guys know the All In podcast? Who are the only two pros who are in these massive games with Silicon Valley donks every week-- him and Hellmuth. He's run the biggest private games in Aria for years, is in huge homegames in NYC, etc... Donking off $500k to Mr Beast and co on HCL has easily made him back multiples in invites to these unbelievably soft games with celebrities, athletes, and rich businessmen.

He's a former 5/T grinder at Bellagio who networked into the high stakes games, was friends with Blizerian, and is a pro at being approachable, fun to play with, and always down to gamble.

Originally Posted by 88keyz
Keating also says he lost $13 million playing poker in the past 2 years but his main incentive for poker is to network and create the most action and pain for others, as opposed to Garrett, who plays only for monetary gain.

His words. People do lie about results but this is pretty inline with his demeaneor.

This is literally the theory some believe:

At the end of the day he's the only one who knows his results.

But just like with sports betting and blackjack, in poker you have a lot of people pretending they're big winners who lose (some for ego, and some to scam.) And a lot of people who try to play down their winnings, or fly under the radar who crush.

I have more than a few friends who grew up with family offices. They always claim they made their own money, and some of them played a lot of low-mid stakes.

What I find interesting is that he isn't in GHIN. I would expect to plug in Keating and see Summit or Southern Highlands, maybe Dragonridge, or Chileno Bay/El Dorado as he strikes me as more of a pure gambler rather than just a poker player.

I would imagine his stake in Polymarket is worth a pretty penny these days.

Hath not Keating, with his fearless heart, strode into the lists of high-stakes play, where fortunes dance on the turn of a card? From Brooklyn’s fields in Michigan’s embrace, he rose, not cradled in unearned wealth, but tempered by the forge of cunning and chance. His coffers, swollen to a reputed half-billion, as whispered by Garrett Adelstein in the halls of Hustler Casino Live, spring not solely from patrimonial streams Hawkins, but perchance from ventures bold or investments shrewd. The world knoweth not the full tale of his wealth’s origin—some speak of startups that soared, others of inheritances vast—yet what matter the source when his deeds at the table proclaim his worth?

this is a pretty standard move though. if you move to a new city a great way to get action is to go to a boring casino game give a lot of action and be a big personality and then ask where the bigger game is. game runners and agents go to casinos all the time to poach players and dealers. it's just a little more transparent to people who've done it before.

splash at the casino game, maybe splash a second time at the home game to establish an image, and then play solid and explain it as "i've just been lucky bro"

Am I the only one that doesnt care what Keating does or how he made his money?

I would imagine that of the 8.062 billion people in the world you are in the majority.

They are hidden though because most simply choose not to post

Don't know why you losers waste your time idolizing some sociopathic trustfund kid that's spewing off 0.01% of dads allowance every session, I would sooner rail a 50NL table, atleast the eastern europeans playing 20 vpip has skin in the game

I don't even watch full streams but I do watch highlights. And I watch to be entertained.

Enjoy those Eastern euros on 50 NL. Sounds fun.

Yeah in order for game to be interesting it’s required for me that the losers feel real pain.

Whether it’s a trust fund or through efforts such as starting Door Dash, people with a ton of money just trying to out crazy each other usually is whatever

even if you have a thousand million, losing a million probably still hurts
i've played 5/10 with >$1mm net worth and losing $1000 still stings

Moderately annoyed mights be a better phrasing like a guy with a million dollars dropping $1,000 in a 2/5 game

Billionaires typically say a million thousand. But who's counting.

Are you sure? I remember hearing his name on early All-in podcasts dropped very casually. This was way before the big Mr Beast game on HCL

They streamed the game from the pokergo studio once and keating was in it and obliterated sacks. He’s probably in the game. They have a phone app game too.

I played in a VC game for awhile and it was so stupid soft lol. Nowhere near as big of a game but I got to meet cool people in it.

They aren't the only ones who play/have played.

Couldn't it be multiple of these things concurrently? I.E. he might have struck it lucky with btc, but if he comes from a lot of money, the amount he'd have punted on btc (and his likelihood of letting it ride) would be much more than if he's just from a lower-middle class income bracket. He could have done a lot of hard work up to now in his life on a number of businesses - for reasons you gave I'd also exclude VC, but then add possibility of supplements/health, travel/socials, or, most likely imo, with the backing of his rich dad, he invested in property hard and early and kept flipping.

But yeah, basically all of this requires him to have started out with a healthy amount to start with, and/or beein incredibly smart and dedicated.

You didn't need to invest huge into crypto if you bought pre 2011. Investing 5k in bitcoin in 2010 is 50 million now. But like you said anyone sane would of sold off a lot.

Inheritance is certainly the most likely, or at least partially (maybe he has done well growing it himself)