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Poker Vlogger Brad Owen Releases Training Course with Top Pro

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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.

Michelle has been a part of the journey ever since Bigtime Daily started. As a strong learner and passionate writer, she contributes her editing skills for the news agency. She also jots down intellectual pieces from categories such as science and health.

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Derik Fay: The Quiet Architect of Impact-First Entrepreneurship

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In an era where noise often overshadows results, Derik Fay is quietly shaping a different kind of legacy — one built not on showmanship, but on undeniable substance. For more than two decades, Fay has engineered the rise of over 30 companies across industries as diverse as real estate, technology, healthcare, and entertainment. Yet his name rarely leads headlines — not because he hasn’t earned it, but because he never needed it to validate his success.

Growing up in Rhode Island, Fay learned early that the world rarely hands out opportunity; it must be seized, created, and multiplied. While many of his peers pursued traditional paths, he took a risk that would define the rest of his life: at just 22, he founded 3F Management, a venture firm with an entirely different mission — to build companies that would outlast trends, outperform markets, and, most importantly, out-impact their competition.

Instead of obsessing over short-term wins, Fay approached entrepreneurship like a craftsman. Much like Henry Ford, who famously said, “A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business,” Fay built companies that weren’t just profitable — they were purposeful. Every venture was designed to create real, sustainable value, both for shareholders and for the communities they served.

Through his relentless focus on structure and leadership, Fay’s ecosystem of businesses now touches thousands of lives daily — from employees finding new opportunities to entrepreneurs gaining the mentorship they never had before. But unlike typical moguls who boast about headcounts, Fay views every job created as a ripple in a larger mission: empowering individuals to write better futures for themselves.

Where others have scaled fast and crashed harder, Fay’s model thrives on foundations few are patient enough to build anymore. His method is slower, smarter, and almost surgical: find what others overlook, fix what others fear, and grow what others abandoned too early. It’s this principle that led him to not just build companies — but to resurrect them, reimagine them, and sometimes even walk away if the mission no longer aligned with the impact he envisioned.

Fay’s philosophy extends far beyond boardrooms. Philanthropy isn’t a checkbox at the end of his success story — it’s embedded into the way he scales. His ventures are built with giving back written into their DNA, from local community initiatives to broader mentorship platforms that help emerging entrepreneurs get their first real shot at success. His life’s work is proof that wealth and generosity are not mutually exclusive — they are, in fact, essential partners.

Today, while newer generations of entrepreneurs hustle for likes and magazine covers, Fay’s name is whispered in rooms where real power moves. His reputation — built quietly but relentlessly — is that of a man who delivers, builds, and elevates without the need for public validation.

In a business world increasingly built on spectacle, Derik Fay reminds us that the most lasting legacies are forged not in the glare of the spotlight, but in the thousands of lives changed quietly along the way.

For more insights into Derik Fay’s ventures and philanthropic efforts, visit www.derikfay.com and follow him on Instagram @derikfay

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