Poker Life

Dylan has been playing poker professionally in some capacity since he was 16 when he started playing to help support his family with earnings from playing online. He was a regular in the mid-stakes HUPLO streets on Full Tilt and PokerStars pre-Black Friday, until the lights got turned off.

Black Friday had a very positive effect on Dylan’s Poker career, as it forced him to focus on college (where he studied probability theory at UCSB) and become more in tune with the non-game theory aspects of what it takes to be a solid poker professional, such as self-knowledge, self-care, emotional control, and life sustainability.

In the past 18 months, Dylan has grinded from $2/$4 to $10/$20 online, and he’s played in the largest live PLO cash games in Las Vegas. Recent notable wins include the U.S. Poker Open 25k and a 2021 WSOP bracelet. His hybridized playstyle combines the most recent game theory from Monker Solver with experience and intuition built over a decade of poker experience. His other focus is on teaching proper mental game fundamentals using tools and strategies learned from his non-poker ventures.

Dylan leads product development and instruction for the PLO Launchpad on Upswing Poker, as well as co-designed and guest-instructed the Advanced PLO Mastery course.

Professional Life

Dylan graduated with a degree in financial math and statistics from the University of California Santa Barbara. He began his career in analytics and growth where he found he was drawn to problems relating to operational efficiencies. In other words, human-centered problems. Poker was all about using analytics on people and it was time to take those skills into business.

Dylan pivoted to project management and operations. While working at Toptal he managed data scientists on a growth team before taking on multiple larger product developments. He took his team-building skills to the next level at Mixergy, creating processes to map out inefficiencies in teams and making hiring decisions based on what teams need to succeed. These experiences helped Dylan not only build a skill set to manage internally but to improve working relations between teams.

Today, Dylan focuses his time on product development and executive performance coaching. His clients range anywhere from CEOs of mid-level startups, Esports athletes, and managers at fortune 500 companies. Additionally, he consults with his portfolio companies on operational efficiencies, hiring practices, and digital analytics infrastructure.