Since its launch in September, the Hustler Casino Live show has enjoyed immediate success thanks to innovations brought to the stream by its producer, Ryan Feldman, appearances by some of the biggest names in poker. Tom Dwan playing a hand on the Hustler Casino Live show in October 2021. (Image: pokeren.nl) “A few years ago, I was thinking it would be the dream to get Phil (Ivey) and Tom (Dwan) … for me, those are the top two guys to get on a show. You see Hellmuth and Negreanu a lot but you don’t really see Phil and Tom a ton, and they were legends back in the day, Feldman said. Two months later, the dream came true as the two high-stakes legends played at the same table in late October in front of over 20,000 live viewers.
“To be able to get them, especially in the first few months of the show, was incredible,” Feldman gushed. Big stars help make a big game
Also playing that night was Garret Adelstein, who regularly appears on the highest stakes games streamed on both Hustler Casino Live, and Live at the Bike. Adelstein is also known for his appearance on Survivor: Cagayan, where he was the second player voted off. It was a rough night for Adelstein, as he ended down nearly $200,000, and Dwan reaped the most of those benefits, ending the night $274,000 up. The full stream is still available on the Hustler’s YouTube page, and has gotten more than 1 million views total, a clear indicator of the popularity of the show and the talent it is bringing.
So how did a poker stream that had been running for just two months manage to pull off such an incredible feat? Well, Hustler Casino Live is trying to do things other poker streams aren’t doing. Their model is to present their poker stream as more of a televised sports event, rather than just another game of cards. Standing out among the crowd
“I always envisioned it like an NBA broadcast. If you watch NBA on TNT or ESPN, [at the] […]
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