Andrew Neeme Net Worth 2026: $1M-$2.5M, Lodge Co-Owner & Vlog Pioneer

Andrew Neeme’s net worth is estimated between $1M and $2.5M, built on mid-stakes live cash, the poker vlog he started in October 2016 and a minority stake in the Lodge Card Club. The East Lansing native has $324,246 in live tournament earnings and two Vlogger of the Year awards.

Only part of that picture is verifiable. The Hendon Mob tracks his tournament cashes and WSOP.com his bracelet record, but his cash game results, his content income and the value of his Lodge stake have never been published.

This profile separates the tracked numbers from the estimates. It covers the road from a music-industry job to the Las Vegas cash tables, the channel that turned vlogging into a poker career path, the 2026 raid on the Lodge and where he stands in 2026.

The estimate rests on four things: roughly a decade of winning mid-stakes live cash, ten years of YouTube income that has since tailed off, two sponsorship deals and a slice of a Texas card room.

None of those components is public, which is why the published guesses run from five figures to seven. The verified part is small by comparison: his gross tournament payouts, before buy-ins.

What is Andrew Neeme’s net worth?

Our estimate is $1M to $2.5M. The low end assumes modest cash profit, fading channel income and a Lodge stake worth little after the 2026 closure; the high end assumes solid win rates and a card room that has recovered since reopening.

That is a wide range, and it should be. A player who grinds private games and keeps his deals private gives the outside world almost nothing to anchor on.

Why do Andrew Neeme net worth estimates vary so much?

Because the sites publishing them are measuring different things. The calculators look only at his YouTube views, the affiliate pages pick a round number, and at least one mirror of his tournament record has copied the earnings total into a net worth field.

Nobody outside his circle knows the real figure. What can be said is which inputs matter and roughly how big each one could be.

How much of it can we verify?

Exactly one number: $324,246 in live tournament earnings across 71 cashes, per The Hendon Mob, with a best cash of $58,500 and a United States all-time money list rank of 5,735th. That is a gross figure, so it says nothing about profit.

Everything else sits in one of five private buckets.

Set against the other profiles on this site, the range sits where a mid-stakes professional with a strong secondary business belongs: above a pure grinder with no channel, well below the high-stakes regulars whose profiles carry eight-figure estimates.

Andrew Neeme was born in East Lansing, Michigan, and studied telecommunication at Michigan State University. The degree was meant to lead to the cell phone industry, and for a while it led nowhere near a poker table.

His first job after college was in the music business, working in Los Angeles for a London-based company. He has described the pay as the problem: he liked the industry and could not live on what it paid.

Bugsy’s Club and the Moneymaker boom

Online poker arrived in 2004, the year after Chris Moneymaker’s Main Event win sent the whole country looking for a game. Neeme found his on Bugsy’s Club, a long-defunct room, and started at the micro stakes with no bankroll to speak of.

He moved up through study and volume rather than a big score. By the time the online games dried up for American players, he was driving to Las Vegas often enough that staying made more sense.

The move made him a full-time live cash game player. By his own account he had been a professional for twelve years when he took up Pot Limit Omaha in 2021, which dates the switch to about 2009.

For the next seven years he was one of hundreds of anonymous mid-stakes regulars on the Strip.

The YouTube account dates from October 2011, but the channel that matters started in October 2016 with a pilot episode filmed around a Las Vegas cash session. The idea was unusual then: film the $2/$5 and $5/$10 games nobody broadcast, then talk through the hands.

It worked faster than he expected. Within a year Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk had started vlogs of their own, and the format became the standard way for a poker personality to reach an audience.

What are Meet Up Games?

A Meet Up Game, or MUG, is a cash session he announces in advance so that viewers can come and play in it. He started them in Las Vegas in the vlog’s first years, often alongside Brad Owen, and has since taken them to Reno, Canada and Michigan.

The games sell out because the lineup is the opposite of a normal casino table. Subscribers who want a hand against the host are not regulars, and why game selection decides a win rate is a lesson he has taught by example.

The MUG also solved the vlog’s awkward problem: filming a table of strangers is a hard sell. A table of people who turned up to be filmed is not.

It is the reason he sits near the top of our poker streamers and creators roster despite never having the biggest channel. Bigger channels have come since; the format was still Neeme’s.

The awards

The vlog won its first trophies at the 2018 American Poker Awards: Video Blogger of the Year and People’s Choice. The Video Blogger field included Doug Polk and Daniel Negreanu, both copying the format with far bigger names; for scale, Daniel Negreanu’s net worth and career carries a $60M estimate.

When the American and European awards merged into the Global Poker Awards, he won Vlogger of the Year at the first ceremony in April 2019 and again at the second in March 2020, back to back.

The ceremony behind those trophies has since stalled: why the 2026 Global Poker Awards were cancelled is a story about the awards, not the winners. The vloggers who followed range from Owen to Masato Yokosawa, and Masato Yokosawa’s road from vlog to WPT title shows how far the idea travels.

Is Andrew Neeme still vlogging?

Less than he was. The channel passed 457 uploads in September 2026, but only thirteen of those arrived in the twelve months before it, and the subscriber count has sat at about 196,000 for a year.

The slowdown has two causes, and he has been open about both. The Lodge took most of his time from 2022, the March 2026 raid took the rest, and the CoinPoker deal was announced as the way back.

Tournaments have never been the job. His Hendon Mob record runs to 71 cashes, starting with $873 at the Venetian in November 2010, and the two biggest results are his two Main Event runs.

Most of the rest is Las Vegas side events, Wynn Classics and a run of WPT stops that lines up with his 2022 ambassador deal. It is the record of a cash player who buys into the big one each summer.

How much has Andrew Neeme won in live tournaments?

The full figure is $324,246 in gross payouts, per The Hendon Mob, which ranks him 5,735th on the United States all-time money list and 471st in Nevada. The ten cashes below make up most of that total.

Does Andrew Neeme have a WSOP bracelet?

No. He does hold a WSOP Circuit ring, won online in June 2024 when he topped a 1,086-entry field in the $100 Mystery Bounty event of the May Online Circuit for $15,324, playing from the Michigan, Nevada and New Jersey network.

WSOP.com lists 32 cashes and two final tables across his bracelet, Circuit and online events.

The 2023 Main Event is the result people remember. He outlasted all but 163 of a record 10,043 entrants for $58,500, a finish inside the top two percent of the biggest field in the event’s history.

Two years later he did it again, finishing 382nd of 9,735 for $40,000 in the event that produced Michael Mizrachi’s 2025 Main Event win. A second Main Event cash two years after the first put the 2023 run beyond a one-off.

The WPT years added the mid-sized scores: 43rd in the $10,400 Five Diamond for $25,000 in October 2022, 286th in the WPT World Championship two months later, and 19th in the WPT Voyage Championship in April 2024. Fourth in the Voyage’s $1,100 PLO event is his best Omaha payout.

Live cash is the career, and it is the part nobody can audit. He has grinded Las Vegas card rooms since around 2009, mostly at $2/$5 and $5/$10, and the vlog grew out of those sessions rather than the other way round.

What he plays is textbook mid-stakes No-Limit Hold’em: full-ring and short-handed games against a mix of tourists and regulars. Anyone wanting the fundamentals he leans on can start with our no-limit cash game strategy guide and recognise most of what the vlogs show.

What stakes does Andrew Neeme play?

Typically $2/$5 to $5/$10 No-Limit Hold’em, with occasional shots higher. Since 2021 he has mixed in Pot Limit Omaha, and his first tournament win in the format came at the Lodge in September 2023, a $200 PLO bounty event for $2,582.

In 2018 he did something almost no professional does and published a win rate on camera: 86 sessions, $34,260 won, roughly $400 a session with tournaments included. It is a single sample from one year, and he presented it as nothing more than that.

The broadcast record is thin. His most recent televised table was the Hustler Casino Live $10,000 Sit & Go in June 2026, where he finished ninth. The show’s regular cast plays a different game, and Nik Airball’s Hustler Casino Live record shows the stakes its stars sit at.

Publicly tracked broadcast data covers only a handful of his sessions, so no win-rate claim can be built from it. The Lodge streams, which he hosted and sometimes played, were never compiled into results either.

He plays the way a professional who has to show up tomorrow plays. There are no hero calls for the camera and no stakes jumps to chase a thumbnail; the vlog’s appeal was always that the poker looked like the poker its viewers played.

The clearest thread is game selection. A Meet Up Game is table selection taken to its logical end, and his ordinary sessions follow the same logic: find the softest game, then play disciplined value poker inside it.

He has also talked more than most about what happens before the first hand. A proper meal, enough sleep and no session on an empty stomach sit closer to a guide to tilt and session preparation than to any solver output.

The style has limits and he knows them. A low-variance mid-stakes game produces a steady income and no headlines, which is why the channel, not the results, built the name.

Why is he not a tournament player?

By his own description he is a cash game grinder who plays the occasional $1,500 event and the Main Event, usually the biggest buy-in of his year. The record bears that out: fewer than five cashes a year over sixteen years, two worth more than $25,000.

The 2023 deep run showed what the approach looks like under tournament pressure. He played slowly, protected his stack and lasted five days, which is the same game he plays at $5/$10 with a different clock.

On 3 January 2022 Neeme, Brad Owen and Doug Polk announced that they had bought into the Lodge Card Club in Round Rock, outside Austin. For the two vloggers it was the first move from filming poker rooms to owning one.

His stake has never been quantified. The group’s share was called a majority in 2022 and the vloggers’ individual holdings single-digit in 2026 coverage, so this profile calls it a minority stake; Doug Polk’s own profile and Lodge record covers the partner who fronted it until July 2026.

Rake, rows and a lawsuit

The first public backlash came early, when the 17% rake row at the Lodge put the room’s tournament pricing under a microscope. Polk took the heat as the room’s public face, but the structure belonged to all three owners.

Rake is the one cost a live player cannot play around. For anyone unsure why a percentage point moves a win rate, what rake does to a live win rate sets out the maths.

In March 2023 an Illinois lawyer sued the three partners for organised criminal activity, seeking $1.2 million in exemplary damages. The same filing pulled in Nate Silver for playing a livestreamed Lodge session with Neeme, the first time the vlogger’s name had appeared in a lawsuit.

What happened in the Lodge Card Club raid?

On 10 March 2026 agents from the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission’s Financial Crimes Unit searched the club alongside the Williamson County Sheriff’s Office and the IRS. What followed was nine weeks that threatened the business.

The raid itself was reported the same day in our report on the 10 March raid, which carried Polk’s first response. The paperwork took longer to surface.

When it did, the warrant and its $1.35M deposits showed what investigators said they were looking for: cash moving from the club’s vault into company accounts, and five possible violations of Texas gambling law. No one was charged.

His own first words were about the staff rather than the owners. On 19 March he wrote that every day the Lodge stayed closed was crucial, because dealers like one he named would have to move on to support themselves.

Five days later the club closed and the closure that cost 144 jobs became the story. The figure comes from the WARN notice the company filed with the Texas Workforce Commission.

By then the owners had issued the frozen-assets statement from March noting that no charges had been filed. Polk went further on camera, and Polk’s first video after the raid set out what Texas law required of the club by 9 April.

The state’s next move changed the shape of the case. On 8 April it filed a civil forfeiture action in the 480th District Court, and how Texas kept $2M after dropping charges explains why a filing that abandoned the money-laundering theory still left the owners without their money.

On 28 April a Williamson County grand jury declined to indict. The owners said the decision was consistent with their position throughout, and what the grand jury no-bill settled is the honest answer: the criminal exposure, not the forfeiture.

The Lodge reopened on 26 May 2026. In the gap between the no-bill and the doors opening, Neeme ran a set of CoinPoker-backed challenges whose proceeds went to the employee GoFundMe, which Latest News picks up below.

Does Andrew Neeme still own the Lodge Card Club?

Yes, on everything the public record shows. No exit has been announced since the reopening, his X profile still describes him as often found at the club, and the April posts were written as an owner with a business to rebuild.

The partner who left is Polk. On 3 July 2026 he announced on X that he was stepping back from any active role at the Lodge while keeping his shares, which leaves Neeme and Owen as the vloggers still involved.

That share is the open question in his net worth. A nine-week closure, the forfeiture hold and a district attorney who called the business model non-compliant all weigh on it, and it is why this profile’s range runs as low as it does.

He lives in Las Vegas, which is where The Hendon Mob places him and what his X profile says, though since 2022 much of his year has been spent around Round Rock. His YouTube description says Austin, which says more about the Lodge than his address.

Who is Andrew Neeme’s wife?

His wife is Busi Buthelezi. The two co-hosted a podcast, Tells: On Poker and Love, which was as much about the relationship as the game.

The marriage was announced on his channel. He has not published the date, and the couple have kept their family life off camera since the podcast ended.

Away from the tables he describes himself on X as an enjoyer of flavoured iced coffees, and not much else about his life off camera is public. It is a thinner public life than most players with a camera, which is deliberate.

“A deal is a deal,” he posted on 29 April 2026, announcing that the CoinPoker challenges had been completed and the room had made its full donation to the Lodge employee fund. It was the first good news since the raid, one day after the grand jury no-bill.

The sponsorship behind it had been agreed before the raid. On 16 April he confirmed he had been talking to CoinPoker about restarting his channels before the Lodge story broke, and that the deal was now the way back to regular filming while the staff waited.

The poker itself has been quiet. A 52nd place in the RunGood Main Event at the Lodge in January for $1,751 and a ninth place in the Hustler Casino Live $10,000 Sit & Go in June are the only results on record for 2026, with no Main Event cash listed.

The Lodge reopened on 26 May, and his output since has been a handful of uploads rather than the old weekly cadence. Whether the CoinPoker deal restores it is the thing to watch; the room’s wider creator push is set out in CoinPoker’s 2026 creator roster and signings.

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 Neeme the inputs are a decade of private cash results, a channel whose income has fallen, two undisclosed sponsorship deals and a card room stake whose value changed in 2026. The range is reviewed each year against those components.

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.

WSOP bracelet, ring and cash counts come from WSOP.com, whose totals include some WPT and RunGood events and are not quoted here as WSOP-only earnings. The one self-published cash game sample is reported as he presented it, with its limits.

How we cover controversies

Where controversies exist, we report verified facts and clearly sourced claims without editorialising or assigning blame. The Lodge timeline above is built from court and regulator reporting, the company’s workforce filing and the owners’ own statements.

Neeme was not charged with anything in 2026, and the grand jury declined to indict the owners. Claims that rest only on secondary reporting, including the size of his stake and whether his own funds were seized, are stated as unconfirmed or left out.