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.

@D22_soso @WSOP 142nd in 2019, not deep enough 😂

@andystackspoker @WSOP Little known fact. Andy Stacks was featured deep in WSOP before he ever played on live stream. What year was it?

How many of us got into poker because of ESPN? Watching the 2003 Main Event is the reason my friends and I started a $20 nightly home game, and where I built my first bankroll 😂 @WSOP belongs on ESPN..so glad to see it back

7 days. Prague is about to take center stage. 🇨🇿 15 bracelets. €10M GTD Main Event. A new era begins.

@WSOP Very cool concept 🔥

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@WSOP @GGPoker @PokerroomKings Been forever since I’ve been back to Prague, I’m in 🙌

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Some poker players nit it up avoiding risk, picking the low variance route every time. Then there's Alex Honnold. Guy is free soloing the tallest building in my hometown tmrw, Taipei 101. I'd love to play poker with this fkn guy.

Made the FT 😁

@ronniepoker I feel you on this 💯 Great catching up with you Ronnie, best wishes with whatever direction you choose. Happy new year

I didn't do much in 2025, instead I was consciously practicing how to be 'peacefully idle.' Hope I can get better at that in 2026.

@NoOneISH4601 @HCLPokerShow Tempting

@andystackspoker Back to @HCLPokerShow??

Funny how every new year, we all start with big plans. Then life happens and things don’t go as expected. A lot of my plans fell apart this year, and I wasted too much energy trying to change the outcome. Now looking back, it was for the best. One thing I’m taking into 2026 is to stop forcing shit. I realized progress also means recognizing what isn’t working and moving on sooner. Wishing everyone a 2026 full of purpose +growth, letting life play out naturally🙏

@Mister_Keating Thx for the love Alan, keep crushing life🙏

@andystackspoker This will be a great year for you - I have a feeling!

@magaquads Amen 🙏 happy new year to you

@andystackspoker Andy, keep it all in perspective, do the best you can, have fun, take opportunities to enjoy and navigate the difficult times knowing God loves you. Happy New Year.

Makes you question what luck even means. Either way, a reminder to never take life for granted.. it can change in split second..even when you're $92 million richer

@RapidReport2025 People are asking why everyone is just standing there. You need to understand that this isn’t the US. Shit like this rarely happens here. So yes, we aren’t fully prepared for situations like this. And it’s because we’ve never had to be.

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@JesseLonis Can feel the intensity in this post, the same focus needed to crush it in these things. Keep at it 🔥

I don’t usually comment on hands I play whether good or bad but let me break down my thoughts for you guys, and take a trip down memory lane a little bit. I’ve played against my opponent at a few stops recently. Every spot we played he was super cautious. Even in most spots undervaluing hands because of his style. After I raise pre, down bet flop, full pot turn and full pot river. My hands are gonna contain AA,KK, and some AK/QQ. This particular opponent I really didn’t think he would go for value with 88. So now we’re left with the chances he is bluffing. I’m getting 4/1 on a call. So I need to be right 20% of the time. I don’t know about you guys, but in these spots, my mind starts running numbers in my head and computes pretty quickly. So the numbers 9-11% is the conclusion I came up with of percentage he is bluffing. So in my head I thought my call would still be losing a lot of money. Now at this particular stage if I was wrong, I would be left with 5.5 million when the big blind was 300 K I believe. If I fold, I still had 11 million. The way my style is I know I can spin 11 million up at that blind depth with pressure way more than I could, if I only have 5.5 in front of me. That being said within the next hour, I did spin it back up to 23 million only seeing one showdown. I have played spots like this probably 40 times this year. I would like to think I was wrong maybe 3 or 4 times including this one. What I do wanna say is congrats to my opponent such a sick play at a sick time. People thought it would tilt me actually did quite the opposite. Made me smile and I gave thanks to him for the humility. Over the last four years, I would like to think I concreted myself as one of the best big field players there is. As Daniel said there is a reason I make deep runs when I play these things. The most important one is the spot where 95% of these @shaundeeb are just gonna shrug there shoulders and call so he can go in his room and eat Little Debbie’s and tweet about people he’s obviously been jealous about for years. If people really wanna know the truth about why @shaundeeb has a hard on for me. Me and Shaun grew up about 40 minutes down the road from each other. Even when I was young and had no money and was trying to shot take in bigger games. I would sit and have to deal with this insufferable human being. Someone who I idolized at the time. Tried acting like this egomaniac bully. In my mind though he is part of the reason I am here today I played with him and I said if this guy can be one of the best I will dominate this game. I also wanted to get enough money so I could play him heads up and bankrupt him. He knows better though and knows I would eat him alive in no limit Holdem or anything else in life besides a few random mix games. My interaction with any young or new player I ever played with is me trying to be supportive and positive and nice. Now with all my success, he has to hear all the time how he’s not the best player from that area anymore and how I passed his 20 year poker career in 4 years. I even have people from our home area message me and tell me that they are trolling him about it and he is getting all mad. So that is the truth behind that. In my closing thoughts, I would like to thank everyone who has followed this journey and always been supportive of me. My biggest tip I can give any new player out there is to always be in the moment and think things through and follow your gut. Sometimes you will be wrong but when you’re collecting millions over and over, you will know it’s because of what you did not some computer. Gorilla out. 🦍

@RealKidPoker Well said, trusting yourself is vital. But I enjoy the old days where you’d confidently name their exact hand, shrug, and then call anyway 😂

Seeing a lot of hate on Jesse for this fold and it’s eye opening to me. Jesse has been having phenomenal results the last couple years, precisely because he is willing to trust himself in these type of spots. He got this one wrong, but how often is he getting it right, and getting away from coolers that most humans just shrug and go broke on? The easy play is to call here and lament your bad luck. The difficult, above the rim plays require a trust in yourself that few possess. Instead of viewing this hand and thinking “What a terrible fold, he is bad,” realize this is just one hand and doesn’t encompass a players full skill set. Small minds make this mistake constantly. If the guy had the straight, Jessie is a genius, but because he was bluffing he is the fool? It’s a fine line, and if you don’t understand this you can never unlock your full potential. “It is not the critic who counts…”

@RobbiJadeLew True but sometimes you’ll also get slammed on for making the ‘correct’ call

@andystackspoker Everyone would be praising him if he made the correct fold

Blocker plays are out of control now and have given players confidence to try some wild stuff. The days of seeing the nuts when calling a river raise after triple barreling are over. Would he do this if he could see his opponent’s cards? I guess that’s the only difference between a brilliant move and a reckless one.