Brad Owen Net Worth 2026: $2M-$4M, Poker Vlog & Lodge Co-Owner

Brad Owen’s net worth is estimated between $2 million and $4 million, built on $1.29 million in tracked live tournament earnings, one of the largest poker vlogs on YouTube and a stake in The Lodge Card Club in Texas.

The Santa Rosa native moved to Las Vegas in 2012 with a $10,000 bankroll and turned a camera on his $2/$5 sessions four years later. That channel now carries roughly 800,000 subscribers and the last Best Vlogger award the Global Poker Awards gave before closing down.

It also put him inside the two biggest poker stories of his career: a World Poker Tour ambassadorship and the 2026 raid on his own card room. This profile separates verified tournament data from estimated figures throughout.

Below you will find quick facts, a net worth breakdown, how the vlog started, his tournament and cash game record, the full Lodge story, his playing style and the latest results.

Our working range for Brad Owen’s net worth is $2 million to $4 million in 2026. He has never published a figure, and no major biography site has produced a researched estimate for him.

The range rests on four income streams: live poker, YouTube, a World Poker Tour ambassadorship and a minority stake in a Texas card room. Only the first has a public ledger.

Why estimates for Brad Owen vary

Searching his name returns figures from about $250,000 to $5 million, almost all from automated net worth sites that multiply subscriber counts by an assumed ad rate. None of them discloses a method or accounts for the Lodge stake.

The honest position is that nobody outside his circle knows the real number. The lower end of our range assumes tournament expenses eat most of the gross and a modest ambassador contract; the upper end assumes the channel and the Lodge are worth what their scale suggests.

How much has Brad Owen won playing poker?

Owen’s tracked live tournament earnings stand at $1,286,428, per The Hendon Mob, with 102 results on his record including 20 online WSOP cashes that sit outside the live total. His best single result is a seventh place in the $50,000 WPT Alpha8 at the Wynn in December 2023.

The total places him around 2,770th on the all-time money list and roughly 1,310th among American players. Those are gross payouts: buy-ins, re-entries and expenses come off before any profit, and he has been open on camera about losing stretches.

The WSOP.com figure covers the summer series, the online bracelet events and the Circuit, so it overlaps the live total rather than splitting it. The World Poker Tour is the other pillar, and most of his six-figure scores have come at WPT events.

The sum has arrived in waves. His 2023 alone produced $499,651, more than the previous seven years combined, while 2026 had added five figures by the end of July.

Income beyond tournaments

The poker vlog is the engine. Roughly 244 million lifetime views across more than 430 videos make it one of the largest poker channels in any language, and its ad and sponsorship revenue has never been disclosed.

Four further pieces sit outside the public record entirely, which is why the range stays wide:

Owen was born in Santa Rosa, California, north of San Francisco. His introduction to poker came through a Hoyle casino computer game after his father took a job at a casino, and the game stuck.

The move to Las Vegas

In 2012 he moved to Las Vegas with a $10,000 bankroll to play $1/$2 and $2/$5 for a living. The early months went well enough to cover rent and keep the roll growing while expenses stayed low.

Then he followed a relationship to Los Angeles, found the games tougher and the costs higher, and went broke. He moved back in with his parents and took a job at an accounting firm before giving poker one more try.

That second attempt coincided with a new idea. In late 2016 he started filming his sessions, and the vlog changed the economics of being a $2/$5 grinder.

The timing shows in the record. His first tracked tournament cash, $971 in a Las Vegas Goliath event, came in July 2016, five months before the first video, and for the next five years tournaments stayed a sideline to the cash games on camera.

The first Brad Owen poker vlog went up in December 2016, two months after Andrew Neeme had started the format. Owen has credited Neeme and Doug Polk as the reasons he picked up a camera, and the three would later go into business together.

The format was simple: a mid-stakes cash session, every big hand shown with the hole cards, and the result stated whether it was a win or a loss. That honesty about losing days separated the channel from the highlight reels around it.

When did Brad Owen start vlogging?

December 2016 is the date of the first poker vlog, though the YouTube account itself dates from 2013. He added Twitch streams in 2018 as the audience grew, and the figures above are publicly tracked channel data that move every week.

How many subscribers does Brad Owen have?

About 802,000, one of the largest subscriber counts of any poker vlog. He sits alongside Neeme, Rampage and Wolfgang Poker among every major poker streamer and vlogger profiled on this site.

The vlog also drew a line that casinos later noticed. In January 2023 Owen reported that MGM properties had stopped allowing poker vlogging on their floors, which pushed much of his Las Vegas content towards the Wynn and Bellagio.

Awards and recognition

The channel has won three Global Poker Awards, the industry prizes run by the Global Poker Index and The Hendon Mob:

The February 2025 win was also the final one in that category. The organisers announced in November 2025 that the show would not return, as covered in our report on the cancelled 2026 Global Poker Awards ceremony.

Until 2022 Owen was a cash game player who entered the occasional WSOP event. His first tracked cash came in July 2016, and his yearly totals stayed in four figures until 2022.

The World Poker Tour deal changed the schedule. From 2022 he began following the tour, and the results arrived almost immediately.

The 2016 to 2021 line totals seven cashes. Every year since has produced more money than those six years combined.

The 2023 WPT breakthrough

Owen’s best year began at the WPT Gardens Poker Championship in May 2023, where he reached the televised final table and finished fourth of 346 entries for $125,000. Seven months later he went bigger still at the WPT World Championship at the Wynn.

In the space of three weeks that December he finished third in the $10,100 8-Max for $107,800, 88th in the $10,400 World Championship for $53,500, and seventh in the $50,000 Alpha8 for $152,266.

What is Brad Owen’s biggest cash?

$152,266, for seventh place in the WPT Alpha8 at the Wynn on 20 December 2023. The buy-in was $48,500 plus a $1,500 fee, by far the biggest event he had entered to that point.

The Gardens fourth place and the 8-Max third are the only other six-figure scores on his record.

Does Brad Owen have a WSOP bracelet?

No. WSOP.com lists 74 cashes, six final tables and $804,142 in earnings across the series, the online bracelet events and the Circuit, but no bracelet and no Circuit ring.

His best live finish came in the 2026 $2,500 Mixed Big Bet, eighth of 386 entries for $15,789. His first WSOP Main Event cash arrived in 2025, a 373rd-place finish of 9,735 for $40,000.

Three titles and a mixed-games turn

Owen’s first live tournament win did not arrive until December 2024, more than eight years after his first cash. Three titles now sit on the record:

The Lodge win came at his own room in Round Rock, in front of the club’s stream. The two limit titles, plus a third place in the Chainsaw T.O.R.S.E. Championship the day before the 2-7 win, say something about where his edge has moved.

Top 10 live cashes

Source: The Hendon Mob, with the Prime Montreal prize converted from Canadian dollars.

Cash games are where Owen made his living before anyone was watching, and they remain the core of the vlog. He has climbed the stakes ladder over fourteen years into the biggest games the vlog can show, including sessions in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio.

His own ledgers are the only complete record, and he has shown winning and losing stretches on camera. The public data covers only what was broadcast.

What the broadcast tables show

Publicly tracked broadcast data covers his appearances on the Poker At The Lodge stream and nothing else: no Hustler Casino Live or Live at the Bike results are recorded against his name.

That sample is small, skewed towards the higher-stakes feature games at his own room, and silent on the hundreds of untelevised sessions that make up his real results. The tracker has not been updated since 2024, so treat it as a footnote rather than a verdict.

The meet-up game

The MUG is the format Owen and Neeme built around their audiences: a low-stakes cash game, usually $1/$3 or $2/$5, advertised in advance so viewers can play against the vloggers. The first ones ran in Las Vegas card rooms.

By December 2022 the World Poker Tour was reserving 26 tables at the Wynn for one. The games have since run at WPT stops from Choctaw to Cambodia, on a WPT cruise and at The Lodge, and fellow ambassador Steve Aoki has turned up to play in them.

On 3 January 2022 Owen announced that he, Neeme and Doug Polk had become co-owners of The Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, outside Austin. The club had opened in 2018 and operated, like every Texas card room, as a membership venue charging seat fees rather than rake.

The three content creators were the public face of the deal. Doug Polk’s net worth and Lodge involvement dwarfed the other two, and the state’s own filings would later set out who held what:

Does Brad Owen own The Lodge Card Club?

He is a minority co-owner, and has been since January 2022. The 2026 affidavit listed him among 18 minority investors each holding under 7% of the club’s holding company, as set out in what the search warrant actually alleged.

He has no operating role: he lives in Las Vegas and appears at the club for streams, meet-up games and the Lodge Championship Series.

The room grew into the largest in Texas under the new ownership, with more than 60 tables, a daily livestream that won a Global Poker Awards fans’ choice prize and WPT and Lodge Championship Series festivals on the calendar.

The 2026 raid and what followed

On the morning of 10 March 2026, around 20 agents from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission, with the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office and the IRS, executed a search and seizure warrant at the Round Rock club. Our coverage of the March 2026 raid on The Lodge ran the same week.

The affidavit alleged five offences, among them organised criminal activity and money laundering. It rested on undercover visits where agents entered without showing membership and on tournament fees the state said the house had kept.

Court records reported by KXAN put the cash seized from the club’s bank accounts at nearly $721,000.

Owen’s role through the spring was support rather than spokesman. He backed Polk’s denial of the money laundering allegation on X and described the owners’ guarantee of player funds as running into seven figures.

The club meanwhile sat with frozen accounts with no charges filed.

On 24 March the district attorney told the club’s lawyers its model broke Texas law, forcing the closure that put 200 staff out of work. Owen gave $5,000 to the employees’ fundraiser, covered in our report on the staff GoFundMe and the April 9 deadline.

The 8 April filing rested on a gambling misdemeanour alone, which is how Texas dropped the charges but kept the cash for three more weeks.

On 28 April a grand jury declined to indict, the assets were released and the room reopened on 26 May. We set out what the grand jury no-bill means for Texas poker the week the decision landed.

Owen plays a patient, value-heavy game built for live cash tables where opponents call too much. Fourteen years of grinding have given him a style that viewers can learn from precisely because it is not flashy.

What stakes does Brad Owen play?

The vlog’s home stakes have been $2/$5 and $5/$10 for most of its life, with bigger featured games at the Wynn, Bellagio and The Lodge in recent years. In tournaments he has moved from $600 events into $10,000 championships and the odd $25,000 or $50,000 buy-in.

He has been candid that the tournament jump cost money for a long stretch, and a major title remains the missing line on his record.

Reputation

Owen’s reputation rests on transparency: the losing sessions, the long downswings and his own ledgers have all gone on screen. The World Poker Tour’s chief executive called him one of the most impactful forces in the community, and the industry’s award voters agreed three times.

Owen has avoided the public feuds that follow many poker creators. The disputes on his record all arrive through The Lodge, and none has produced a finding against him.

The 2023 Lavery lawsuit

In 2023 a civil suit filed in Texas by an Illinois lawyer named Polk, Neeme and Owen alongside the club, alleging organised criminal activity in the way the room was run. The filing sought $1.2 million in exemplary damages and swept in Nate Silver for playing on a Lodge livestream.

No judgment against the three has been reported, and the 2026 grand jury’s refusal to indict dealt with the same question.

Rake and the Texas model

Texas rooms cannot take rake, so clubs charge seat fees, and tournament fees can look steep next to a casino event. Within three months of the purchase, vlogger Ryan Depaulo set off the 17% tournament rake row at The Lodge over a monthly $500 event carrying a $100 fee.

The same fee structure became the heart of the state’s 2026 case, and the grand jury declined to act on it.

Filming bans

The one dispute that was Owen’s alone was with the casinos. His January 2023 report that MGM properties had banned poker vlogging removed several Las Vegas rooms from his content.

Owen has never played the high-roller lifestyle on camera. The vlog’s running jokes are an ageing Lexus and a cat, and he still films from the same Las Vegas rooms he ground in 2012.

How old is Brad Owen?

He was born on May 27, 1988, making him 38 years old in 2026. The date comes from player databases, and Owen has not confirmed it himself.

Who is Brad Owen’s partner?

Owen’s partner is Amber, whom he has named in his own posts. Their son was born in July 2024, and a hospital stay for the boy later that year put poker on hold for a spell.

He has kept the family largely off camera, and the vlog’s personal moments tend to arrive as a line at the end of a session rather than a segment of their own.

2025 brought a first WSOP Main Event cash and a title at his own card room. 2026 has delivered a mixed-games turn, a raid on that same card room and the club’s reopening within eleven weeks.

The year has produced eleven cashes for $83,281 through July, seven of them at the WSOP. The best was eighth place in the $2,500 Mixed Big Bet, followed by 32nd in the $10,000 PLO Hi-Lo Championship for $21,162.

He vlogged the series as usual, and for readers following the broadcasts our guide to watching WSOP 2026 coverage lists the free and paid feeds. The two Chainsaw results in May gave him his first mixed-games title and a third-place finish in the same week.

Away from the felt, the Lodge story moved from crisis to a quieter footing. The room reopened on 26 May, and on 3 July Polk announced he was stepping back from any active role while keeping his shares, leaving the day-to-day business with the management team and the other owners.

September brought a vlog from a winning session in Bobby’s Room at the Bellagio, and the WPT Prime Lodge Championship is on the schedule for 8 to 12 October.

His next result will land first on our page for the latest poker news and results.

This player profile separates verifiable facts from estimates and public claims. We cannot accurately calculate any player’s net worth, but we aim to publish transparent, verifiable information.

How we handle ‘net worth’

Net worth figures for poker players are inherently speculative. We publish a range rather than a single number, explain the inputs that inform it, and flag what cannot be verified.

For Owen, the inputs are tracked tournament earnings, publicly tracked YouTube channel data, a World Poker Tour ambassadorship with private terms and a card room stake of undisclosed size. No celebrity biography site has published a researched estimate for him.

How we report earnings

Tournament earnings on this profile are sourced from The Hendon Mob, which tracks live tournament cashes globally. We cite cash counts and earnings totals as gross payouts, not profit.

Bracelet and WSOP cash counts come from WSOP.com, which can differ slightly from The Hendon Mob. Broadcast cash game results come from publicly tracked stream data that covers only televised sessions and has not been updated since 2024.

How we cover controversies

Where controversies exist, we report verified facts and clearly sourced claims without editorialising or assigning blame.

The Lodge Card Club raid and the 2023 lawsuit are reported from court filings, the TABC’s own statements, local news and our own contemporaneous coverage. No charge or judgment against Owen has been reported, and we say so.