Andy Stacks

Remembering the passing of 2 friends one year ago: A year ago yesterday - Ramsey Doumani❤️‍🔥He was loved by our poker community and a selfless friend. He gave me moral support during some of my lowest points. I’ll always remember those long convos hanging at his house where we talked about everything. A year ago today - Stephen Boss❤️‍🔥Before he became known to the dance world as tWitch, I’ll always remember him as one of the most humble, genuine and uplifting guys I've known. He never let his celebrity status change him, and treated everyone with kindness. Both guys left such a positive mark on so many people, myself included. They are greatly missed. May their names live on.

Just woke up, opened the app and for once in a very long time, no dumpster fire, just good energy. GL to everyone at the tables today, feels like it’ll be a good one

BREAKING: All charges against myself, my partners, and the Lodge have been officially rejected. The seized money and equipment will be returned and we will reopen as quickly as possible, hopefully within a few weeks. The Grand Jury in Williamson county heard the allegations against us, and refused to authorize proposed charges. Justice has prevailed. The damage to our staff and members has been tremendous, and it is now time to rebuild. We will be putting together a kickoff event in the near future. In the words of a great man: “you gotta know when to hold'em”

@rampagepoker I think its about time to offer them the bare knuckle boxing option

@alexduvallin Both of you, to the principals office. Now.

Nik Airball VS Jungleman drama was reignited over this past weekend 👀

@subiime You must get the worst of it, Koreans don’t hold back

@andystackspoker Im also still baffled all the time after years of jeju poker. Nothing makes sense.

I’m pretty sure the total lack of awareness some Chinese players have is just next level trolling. My bluff gets snapped off on the river. Railbird walks up to the table for a closer look.. “Waa… queen-high?” then wanders off. He’s back 15 min later and asks me in Mandarin if I’m doing ok. All I can do is politely nod because he sounds genuinely concerned

@iRuShh514 Brings me right back to the pits/Asian side of LA casinos

@andystackspoker Almost as good as the chinese man getting up from a neighboring table to blow his nose and drop a fart right next to me without forgetting to give his two cents on a hand occuring at the table by stating “Wowwww lucky!!” All of it before getting dealt his next hand

@DColpoys23 I’ll try to be more aware of their lack of awareness, and thanks for teaching me about my culture

@andystackspoker This is extremely common in Asian culture, slowrolls, laugh at failed bluffs etc etc. I think this is more on your lack of awareness than theirs.

@Nick_Palma1010 I’m just glad he didn’t offer me poker coaching

@andystackspoker Woulda been great if he asked u if u were looking for work

@pokerface_ash_ @cardplayerlife Greg’s a cool dude, used to splash around with him in the early 2000s at Commerce. Also, thx for not ruining the end of this story with use code: Ashley

2014… I rolled up to the Bellagio with my entire bank account in cash. At the time, that meant a couple hundred dollars. I sat down at a $1/$3 game with money I couldn’t afford to lose. But I wanted to play in a Vegas poker room so bad. Almost immediately, I lost close to half my buy-in. And then out walks Greg Mueller from Bobby’s Room. The guy I had watched on Poker After Dark and ESPN. FBT = Full Blown Tilt. The same guy whose words had already changed the way I looked at poker… and he had absolutely no idea. There I was in a tiny $1/$3 game, watching him walk past after probably playing pots worth more than an average house. I gave him the goofiest, somewhat starstruck smile as he passed by. I texted my friends on the Strip, “OMG, I just saw a poker pro I watch on TV.” A little while later, he came back around. And then he sat down at my table. Just for fun. This man had just come from the biggest cash game on the planet and sat down with us, running up a stack like it was nothing, while I was over there stressing about a couple hundred dollars. We started talking, and I got to tell him how he unknowingly changed my life. Rewind to 2013. I had just started watching poker, playing on Full Tilt, trying to figure out what the hell this game even was after discovering it at a team bonding night in college. I dusted off a couple hundred dollars on my credit card and lost sleep over it. But I was hooked. I didn’t know anyone in my life who played. I was just fascinated. So I did what so many of us did back then. I watched the WSOP Main Event on ESPN. That’s when I saw it. Greg was making a deep run, and they did a segment on him. He talked about retiring from professional hockey and being left with this competitive void. Then he found poker. He talked about how he realized he could outwit, outsmart, and outwork people at the table the same way he had on the ice. How poker gave him back that fire. And something in me lit up. Because I was living that EXACT moment. I had just walked away from being a college athlete and basketball coach. And the hardest part wasn’t the lifestyle shift. It was losing that competitive part of myself. That thing that made me feel most alive. I didn’t know where to put it anymore. It clicked… poker was not just gambling. It was a battlefield for the mind. Where you could outwork your competition. Just like in basketball. I loved that. From that point on, poker was different to me. Still a tiny fish… but learning to swim. So there I was a year later, sitting across from Greg at Bellagio, telling him that his ESPN segment had shaped the trajectory of my life. We ended up talking for hours. To this day, Greg is a friend, mentor, and one of the biggest inspirations in my journey through this game. And I still do not know if he fully understands that one ESPN segment helped rewire the way I saw my entire future. So hearing the WSOP Main Event is coming back to ESPN brings all of it flooding back. The nostalgia. The DREAM. Back then, watching the Main on ESPN felt so far away it almost didn’t seem possible. It felt like something that belonged to others. Surely not me. And now I will be playing my fourth Main Event this summer, after cashing for the first time last year, after building a career and a life around this game that I once thought was just a card game on TV. How insane is that? What I love most about poker comes down to competitiveness. It has challenged my biggest insecurities, torn apart my mental walls, and demanded more of me in every element of life, not just at the table. It’s not a card game. It’s a mind sport. And ESPN putting it back on the biggest stage in sports will create more moments like the one I had watching Greg all those years ago. More lightbulbs going off. More athletes, competitors, and dreamers like me realizing this game is so much deeper than what it looks like on the surface. And that’s a beautiful thing. @wsop

@rampagepoker Glad I could chip in, enjoy!

Fun start to Taipei trip, another FT in the 10K. 9 left, coming in 1/9. $300k+ for 🥇

@MezzoDana Well played by both, just interesting to see how our perception has shifted. And yes, see you at @WSOP 🙌

Hey Andy! We miss you stateside. Will we see you at the WSOP?? I don’t have a problem w the river bet. Maybe the shove should have happened on the flop or there should have been a bigger bet there. Both players are quite accomplished tournament players so I can’t downplay any move they make. It’s kinda like when everyone dogpiled on Kristen Foxen for folding kings pre. KBex was willing to go out swingin’ and Schulmann was willing to be wrong. That’s poker!

Years ago, this used to be called spewing. Then it became “street poker.” Now it’s known as a well-executed solver-approved bluff

@RumbleThings That one is called soul-reading

@andystackspoker Years ago no one considered calling with a pair of 6 on that board

@QuestionAsker13 Yes sir. Games were so fun back then when cash played. 😂

@andystackspoker @WSOP Hey man huge fan of you from live at the bike and hustler days. Always rooted for you! On another note, can you please do the table one podcast?id love to hear from you! Also Matt Berkey told a story about how you can count $100 bills faster than anyone.can you show us

Bricked everything at @WSOP Europe but still had a blast. A few things I enjoyed: - Spiking a backdoor flush vs GTO super pro and busting him on level 1 of the Main - Seeing Annette back in the mix and making a deep run - Fast, professional dealers throughout - Being stuck at a tight boring table, then Shaun Deeb sitting down blasting and putting everyone on tilt - The breakfast buffet was solid Also, it was just cool to be back in Prague after 10 yrs. Finally made it up to the castle, spent hours just wandering around in awe.

@audavidb Bricked both events we played together, but was fun while it lasted, better luck to both of us in Vegas

The poker in Prague was great but not for me. Happy I competed but every series doesn’t always go your way. Back in the trenches to be better for summer. On a brighter note our new biker gang The Whales Angels had fun terrorizing the streets of Prague!

@JohnnieVibes @GmanPoker @WSOP Thx Johnnie, gotta have some fun so we don’t lose our minds in this game. Shoutout to Oceans 11

@andystackspoker @GmanPoker @WSOP Andy I gotta say it’s been fun to see you come out of your shell. If you told me 10 years ago in our Oceans 11 games that you’d be a public facing poker personality I would have piled the under. Love to see the SoCal Live OG’s crushing.

My table’s been dead silent for the last hour in the €8.4k GGMillions. Guy to my right gets moved. New guy sits down, settles in, turns to me and asks in a European accent I can’t identify.. “You think.. is worth.. to buy Garrett book?” Gotta love @WSOP Europe

@GmanPoker @WSOP Alright you got me I’m in 😂

@andystackspoker @WSOP You fly halfway across the world, and still can’t get away for me bro. My bad. Let’s work out a generous affiliate deal, your reach in Asia is the real deal 😜. Code Andy FTW!

@mastropoker Told him to wait for the translated version in his language

@andystackspoker @WSOP what did you tell him? yes or no?