Alan Keating Net Worth 2026: Cash Game Record, Age & Poker Career

Alan Keating is a Michigan businessman who has become one of the most-watched players in livestreamed poker. His tracked broadcast results show a lifetime profit of $892,625, and he has played in three of the twelve largest pots ever broadcast.

This profile separates verifiable data from speculation. Most “Alan Keating net worth” figures online conflate him with a different person entirely, and no public source has documented his actual wealth or its origins.

What follows is built on Hendon Mob tournament records, independent broadcast session trackers, firsthand interview statements, and public media reporting: the same sources a professional analyst would use, stripped of the fabricated biographies that dominate competing profiles.

Alan Keating’s net worth is estimated at $10 million to $50 million. The range sets aside the widely repeated $500 million figure, which traces to an unsourced on-air remark, and reflects wealth he says comes from private investments rather than poker.

What is Alan Keating’s net worth?

The most widely repeated figure traces to a single offhand remark. During a Hustler Casino Live broadcast on 18 May 2022, Garrett Adelstein described Keating’s net worth as “well over $500 million” while telling an anecdote about meeting him at EDC Las Vegas in 2015.

Adelstein offered no source for that number and was not making a financial disclosure. He was recounting a casino trip story, and the figure appeared in passing. It has since been repeated across dozens of articles and video titles as though it were confirmed.

What we can verify: tracked earnings

Keating’s tracked live tournament earnings total $241,001 across 20 recorded cashes. That figure places him at roughly 15,772nd on poker’s all-time money list, a ranking driven by his minimal tournament appearances rather than his results.

All payouts are gross figures before buy-ins, travel, and any staking splits. His complete tournament record is publicly auditable on The Hendon Mob.

His tracked broadcast cash game results tell a different story. Keating’s tracked broadcast results show a lifetime net profit of $892,625 across 70 monitored livestream episodes, after peaking above $2.1 million in May 2026 and giving much of it back in June.

Those figures cover only livestreamed sessions. Private and unstreamed games are not tracked, and broadcast session trackers are fan-operated databases, not official records.

Why the real number is unknowable from the outside

Keating is not a professional poker player. He is a businessman who plays poker recreationally at the highest stakes. That distinction matters because the standard framework for estimating a poker player’s net worth barely applies here.

Our range will move if Keating or a credible financial source puts a verifiable figure on the record.

What is actually known about Alan Keating’s background is minimal. He is from Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, and describes himself as an investor in private companies. Beyond that, almost every biographical detail circulating online is either unverifiable or belongs to someone else entirely.

How did Alan Keating make his money?

The most detailed public account comes from his appearance on the Doug Polk podcast in March 2025. Keating described himself as an investor who got in early on multiple private startups.

In one anecdote, he recounted negotiating a deal in which Phil Hellmuth invested $15,000 for a 4% stake in a company. A secondary broker later valued that same business at $2 billion.

Keating did not name the company, disclose his own stake, or say how the investment turned out.

Why most Alan Keating biographies are wrong

A majority of poker biography sites attribute a detailed professional background to Alan Keating that belongs to a completely different person. The claims typically include heading US structured finance, working in investment banking and private equity, and studying at Trinity College Dublin.

Those credentials belong to a different Alan Keating: a partner at the law firm Matheson who leads its New York structured finance practice. He is an Irish legal professional with membership of the Law Society of Ireland and the Irish Tax Institute. He has no connection to poker.

A third person named Alan Keating holds acting credits including Bugsy Malone (1976), EastEnders, Grange Hill, and appearances on Big Brother UK.

None of the structured finance career, Irish legal credentials, or acting credits found on competing profiles applies to the Michigan-based poker player profiled here.

Where does Alan Keating live?

Keating’s hometown is listed as Bloomfield Hills, Michigan on The Hendon Mob and other major poker databases. He has not publicly confirmed a current address, but interview references and social media posts are consistent with Michigan.

Some profiles list his hometown as Brooklyn, Michigan. That is likely a mix-up with Alex Keating, a different professional poker player born in 1987 in Brooklyn, MI, who holds a WSOP bracelet and has his own Wikipedia page.

Keating’s profile fits among the celebrity players in high-stakes poker: wealthy individuals whose non-poker identities generate as much curiosity as their results at the table.

Alan Keating’s poker career exists almost entirely in cash games. He has spent four years as a fixture of the highest-stakes livestreamed games in the United States, appearing on Hustler Casino Live, High Stakes Poker, Poker After Dark, and PokerGO Super High Roller broadcasts.

His tracked results across those shows add up to a six-figure lifetime profit, down from a seven-figure peak. The individual sessions tell a more dramatic story: record-breaking pots, a seven-figure turnaround from deep in the red, and a rivalry that has defined HCL’s last two seasons.

How Keating arrived on Hustler Casino Live

Keating’s first tracked appearance on Hustler Casino Live came on 15 April 2022, in a $200/$400 no-limit hold’em session. Within months he was a regular at the highest stakes the show offered.

His breakout hand came in December 2022. He won a $1,158,000 pot against a player known as “Handz” after rivering a flush with K2 suited, a result that was the largest pot in US livestreamed cash game history at the time.

HCL underwent a major transition in 2023 when GGPoker’s takeover of Hustler Casino Live brought new production value and a global distribution deal.

How much has Alan Keating won on Hustler Casino Live?

Keating’s tracked HCL profit stands at $684,850 across 187 hours, down from more than $3 million before the June Million Dollar Game. His Lodge results now outstrip it.

The biggest pot he has played on the show came in June 2026, at the Million Dollar Game during the WSOP: $2,801,000 against Martin Kabrhel, seventh in our ranking of the biggest cash game pots in poker history.

Keating shoved king-queen into ace-king and the pair ran it three times. Kabrhel took two of the boards.

In December 2025 he won a $2,082,000 pot against “Steve” and Martin Kabrhel during HCL’s million-dollar buy-in cash game marathon.

What is the Alan Keating vs Nik Airball rivalry?

The most prominent rivalry on Hustler Casino Live pits Keating against Nik Airball. The two have clashed in some of the show’s biggest pots.

In March 2025, Airball won a $690,000 pot against Keating. Two months later, Keating responded with a $1,600,000 hero call during a Million Dollar Game session.

Their sessions have become must-watch content for HCL’s audience, and polarising livestream rival Nik Airball has built his own profile partly through these confrontations.

What is Alan Keating’s biggest poker pot?

The largest pot Keating has won on camera is the $1,412,500 hand on High Stakes Poker Season 14 Episode 10, aired on 31 March 2025. He held pocket kings against Peter Wang’s A3 of spades and the board ran out clean.

That pot set the High Stakes Poker record at the time. It has since been passed four times, most recently by Eric Wasserson’s $4,260,000 pot against Texas Mike in August 2026.

Keating has also played in pots exceeding $2 million on other shows. The $2,437,000 HCL pot and the $2,400,000 PokerGO Super High Roller pot against Antonio Esfandiari in January 2026 both surpass the HSP record in raw size, though multi-way action makes direct comparison difficult.

Beyond HCL: PokerGO and The Lodge

Keating’s cash game career extends well beyond HCL.

On PokerGO’s Super High Roller broadcasts in early 2026, he played two of the seven-figure pots in the table above. At The Lodge Card Club in Austin, he cleared roughly $1,000,000 in a single session in late May 2026.

Across these venues, Keating has faced top pros including 17-time bracelet winner Phil Hellmuth on the PokerGO circuit and sat in some of the highest-stakes sessions ever broadcast.

His most-replayed hand remains the $675K hero call against Doug Polk. Polk has since become a recurring figure in Keating’s high-stakes orbit, appearing on both HCL and PokerGO broadcasts.

The turnaround, and the June reversal

Keating’s tracked broadcast results have not been a straight line upward. As recently as May 2024, he was deep in the red on camera.

The peak did not hold. The June Million Dollar Game, where he lost two-thirds of the $2,801,000 Kabrhel pot, took almost $1.3 million off his tracked total inside a month.

Whether those untracked sessions are net positive or negative is unknown. What the public data shows is a player who went from $3.4 million down on camera to $2.1 million up in two years, then handed a large slice back.

Keating’s tournament record is minimal by design. He has made no secret of his preference for cash games and has entered tournaments almost exclusively at the $10,000 buy-in level or above.

His tracked live tournament earnings total $241,001 across 20 cashes, with zero titles and zero final table appearances. Nearly every recorded cash comes from the WSOP.

Does Alan Keating play tournaments?

In his own words, not willingly. During the WSOP “No Limit” documentary filmed at WSOP Paradise in late 2024, Keating was direct about his view of the format.

“I would compare it like chess and checkers. Tournaments are more like checkers to me.”

The comments drew sharp criticism from several bracelet winners, a topic covered in the Controversies section below. His results support the idea that tournaments are an afterthought: five notable cashes across 17 years, all at major events.

His relationship with tournaments reached its logical conclusion at WSOP 2026. Keating registered and paid $25,000 for the Heads-Up Championship but never showed up, reportedly tired after his +$1,000,000 Lodge session the previous night. He was blinded out in Round 1 against Piotr Krupa.

All tournament figures are gross payouts before buy-ins and expenses. Given that his recorded cashes come almost entirely from $10,000 events, his net tournament profit is likely negative or close to zero.

Alan Keating’s playing style is one of the most debated topics in high-stakes poker. His statistical profile reads like that of a recreational player, but his results over four years of broadcast play tell a more complicated story.

Is Alan Keating a good poker player?

Keating’s lifetime VPIP across tracked broadcast sessions sits at approximately 70%. That means he voluntarily puts money into roughly 7 out of every 10 pots dealt, a rate far higher than any winning professional.

His preflop raise percentage is around 30%, which combined with that VPIP creates a massive gap between hands played and hands raised. In conventional poker analysis, that gap indicates a player who calls too much preflop and should be losing money.

Yet Keating has turned a multimillion-dollar swing on camera, recovering from a -$3,415,350 deficit in May 2024 to a seven-figure profit two years later.

Poker content creator Marc Goone produced a widely viewed analysis of over 100 hours of Keating’s broadcast play, examining how his postflop decisions offset his loose preflop tendencies. The video reinforced the label that has followed Keating since his first HCL appearances.

All of this analysis is based on broadcast sessions only. Keating’s private game results are unknown, and it is possible that his on-camera style differs from his approach in unstreamed games.

The hero calls and the six-high bluff

Keating’s signature plays are his hero calls: large bets called with marginal holdings based on reads rather than mathematical equity. These moments have defined his public image more than any single session result.

The $675K call against Doug Polk, detailed in the Cash Game Career section above, is the most cited example. The $1,600,000 call against Nik Airball during a Million Dollar Game is another.

His bluffing is equally unconventional. Keating’s six-high bluff on Poker After Dark against David Sacks demonstrated pure conviction with no equity, making him nearly impossible to read at the table.

Keating has been at the centre of two notable controversies, both originating from the same WSOP documentary series released in November 2025. The incidents are distinct but connected: one involved AI-fabricated content, the other a genuine opinion that divided the poker community.

What was the AI scandal in the WSOP documentary?

In November 2025, the WSOP released “No Limit,” an eight-part documentary produced by Dustin Iannotti and distributed through GGPoker. Keating appeared in Episodes 5 and 6, then accused the producers on X of putting words in his mouth.

The WSOP pulled all six released episodes from YouTube on 23 November 2025 and apologised.

Alex Keating, a different professional poker player also in the series, alleged a fake voice had been used for his segments. Jennifer Tilly and numerous other professionals publicly condemned AI voice cloning in poker media.

Keating’s response to Iannotti’s explanation: “This doesn’t deserve a reply and you know why.”

The incident strained Keating’s working relationship with Iannotti, who also produces the “Who Is Alan Keating” YouTube channel through his company Artisans on Fire.

The tournament debate

The same documentary series contained Keating’s chess-versus-checkers remarks about tournament poker, filmed at WSOP Paradise in late 2024. The comments, quoted in the Tournament Record section above, sparked a separate backlash.

WSOP bracelet winner Nicholas “Nicky P” Palma responded by calling Keating “a clown” and arguing that anyone with decent poker knowledge could beat him. Hall of Famer Daniel Negreanu broadly sided with the criticism.

The debate touched a nerve because Keating’s cash game results made the dismissal difficult to sustain outright. Our coverage of Keating’s tournament comments at WSOP Paradise explored the reactions and the question of whether his results give him standing to critique the format.

Taken together, the AI scandal and the tournament debate made November 2025 the most publicly visible month of Keating’s poker career outside of his actual play at the tables.

Keating’s 2026 has been his busiest year on camera. He has played Hustler Casino Live and PokerGO’s Super High Roller broadcasts, cleared a seven-figure session at The Lodge in Austin in May, and sat in the Million Dollar Game at the WSOP in June.

That June session produced the $2,801,000 pot against Kabrhel covered above, the biggest hand of his career so far, and one he lost two-thirds of on the triple run-out.

Off the table, Keating posts on X as @Mister_Keating and on Instagram as @mister_keating, and the “Who Is Alan Keating” YouTube channel follows his sessions. He has no sponsorship or ambassador deal with any poker room.

For broader coverage of the game, see our latest poker news and reporting.

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 is not publicly confirmed for Alan Keating, and any figures mentioned are treated as unverified estimates. We present the full range of published estimates, identify each source, and flag where no methodology was disclosed. The profile explicitly debunks conflated biographical data from different individuals sharing the same name.

How we report earnings

“Live tournament earnings” refer to tracked results from The Hendon Mob. Cash game figures come from fan-operated broadcast session trackers covering only livestreamed sessions. All totals are gross figures before buy-ins, staking splits, and expenses; private and unstreamed results are excluded.

How we cover controversies

We link to our own reporting where available and clearly label what is alleged, confirmed, or unclear. The AI scandal section relies on public statements from Keating, Iannotti (now-deleted posts reported by poker media), and the WSOP’s official response. Direct quotes are attributed to named sources.