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Poker Vlogger Brad Owen Releases Training Course with Top Pro

Published

3 years ago

October 7, 2022

With more than 600,000 YouTube subscribers, Brad Owen stands as the world’s most popular poker vlogger. Owen’s ever-growing audience has witnessed the cash game pro climbing the stakes in poker cash games over the last two years.

Owen now regularly plays in some of the biggest cash games in Las Vegas casinos and Texas poker clubs. Throughout the most successful stretch of his poker career, Owen credits poker coaching from high-stakes pro Nick Petrangelo as the caveat to his success.

Aspiring poker players now get the chance to sit in on those sessions. Owen and Petrangelo present the “Smash Live Cash” poker course, now available at Upswing Poker.

This standalone course allows students to look in on Owen’s private coaching sessions with Petrangelo, which vaulted Owen to success at some of poker’s highest stakes.

Students that purchase Smash Live Cash can look forward to the following features:

25+ hours of content
Sit in on private coaching sessions with Brad Owen
Thousands of preflop charts

Preflop Strategy For Live Cash Games

Smash Live Cash features more than 5,000 preflop charts, covering virtually any format you might encounter in a live cash game. Some of the situations Petrangelo covers in the preflop charts include:

Ante Games (including big blind and button antes)
Raked/No-Rake Games
Straddle Games

“From those (preflop charts), we establish the equilibrium strategies,” Petrangelo says.

“Not as what we want to follow, but because without knowing equilibrium, you really don’t know how to deviate and make that extra money, which is the point of live cash games and poker in general.

Live Poker Player Profiles

The “Smash Live Cash” course offers custom strategies built to play against different player types. Some of the player profiles Petrangelo addresses in the course include:

Tight-Passive
Loose Aggressive
Solid Pros

Petrangelo presents his solver-based approach to competing against each different player type, developed over years of playing experience and study time away from the tables.

Poker Live Stream Review

The advent of live-stream poker games presents opportunities to observe and analyze the play of some of the world’s top players. The final section of the course features Petrangelo breaking down high-stakes hands from some of the biggest live-streamed games in the world.

“We’ll review a bunch of the different streams, as there are so many live streams now with so much information,” Petrangelo says. “So many great players playing live streams all the time.”

“I think it’s going to be a great experience for everyone involved,” Petrangelo says. “I spent a lot of time on this.

Price: $999

You can purchase Smash Live Cash at Upswing Poker for a one-time fee of $999. That price grants lifetime access to the course. Petrangelo shares the advanced strategies that vaulted him to poker’s highest-stakes cash games.

About Upswing Poker

Upswing Poker was launched by poker profs Doug Polk and Ryan Fee in 2016. Since then, Upswing Poker has earned a reputation as the world’s most comprehensive and respected poker education resource.

The roster of Upswing coaches includes Petrangelo, Polk, Gary “GazzyB123” Blackwood, Ryan “PokerWithRiske” Riske, and David “MissOracle” Yan, to name just a few.

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Kuby Cazal Shows Why Trusting in Allah Is the Ultimate Strategy

Published

2 days ago

July 13, 2025

Michelle Langton

In an online world where entrepreneurship is often measured in Rolexes, rented Lambos, and airport selfies, Kuby Cazal stands out — not because he’s louder, but because he’s real.

He doesn’t flash his wealth. He doesn’t post luxury for the sake of validation. In fact, he’s said in several interviews that he doesn’t want to be known as the guy who flexes with money.

Instead?
He flexes with faith.

Kuby Cazal is a practicing Muslim — and for him, business isn’t just about profits and success. It’s about gratitude, growth, and fulfilling the responsibilities that come with the blessings Allah has given him.

In his own words:

“I’m not the one who shows off a Rolex — I’m the one who shows you what’s possible when you trust in Allah and stay consistent.”

And it shows. While others post stories of flashy lifestyles, Kuby’s focus is on impact. He prays. He fasts. He makes dua for his team. And he constantly reminds his audience that everything he has is from Allah — not from his own effort alone.

Behind the scenes, he’s helped countless dropshippers quietly. No screenshots. No clout. Just support. His message is simple: you can build a business and stay true to your deen.

But it wasn’t always this way. Kuby Cazal himself admits that a few years ago, his connection to Islam wasn’t where it should’ve been. “I prayed sometimes, I skipped sometimes,” he shares. “Now I don’t skip. Because everything I have, everything I am — it’s from Allah. Why would I ever miss thanking Him?”

In a world full of noise, Kuby Cazal is a different kind of entrepreneur. One who doesn’t point to himself as the source of success — but to Allah.

For young Muslims trying to navigate business and faith, he’s proof that you don’t have to sell your soul to build something meaningful. You can work hard, stay humble, and always keep Allah first.

And in Kuby’s case? That’s the biggest flex of all.

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