Rampage Poker Net Worth 2026: Ethan Yau's Earnings, 2 WSOP Bracelets & HCL Swings

Ethan “Rampage” Yau is the poker vlogger who filmed his way from $1/$3 New England games to the Hustler Casino Live Million Dollar Game. He holds two WSOP bracelets, five WSOP Circuit rings and $3,903,200 in tracked live tournament earnings, headlined by an $894,240 WPT High Roller win in 2022.

Few players publish their own numbers the way he does. A seven-figure downswing in early 2024, a $357,213 losing first half of 2025 and a $1.3 million fortnight on Hustler Casino Live in June 2026 were all posted, on camera or on X, by the man himself.

That transparency is why gross earnings mislead here more than usual. The $3.9 million is prize money before buy-ins that took about half of it in his best year, and it ignores the streamed games where the real swings live. Our estimate lands in the low seven figures.

Ethan Yau’s net worth sits between $2 million and $4 million, a range computed in September 2026 from the components he has made public. The lower bound takes his documented losses and tax at face value; the upper bound credits his home, his Lodge Card Club stake and undisclosed income.

He is one of the few high-stakes players who posts year-end results, which makes the arithmetic less guesswork than usual. It also means the swings are on the record, and they are violent in both directions.

What is Rampage Poker’s net worth?

The short answer is $2M to $4M. On the credit side sit $3.9 million in gross live cashes, roughly half a million in online and hybrid WSOP money, and a streamed cash game record that has swung by seven figures.

Add YouTube revenue he put at just under $188,000 for 2021, two ambassador deals and a Pokémon card he flipped for a $300,000 profit.

Set against all of that are buy-ins, US tax, a six-figure loan he says was never repaid, the sports betting losses he has posted about and five years of living on the road. Nobody outside his circle knows the real number.

Why do Rampage net worth estimates vary?

Poker media sites publish “Rampage Poker net worth” figures, and the highest we found claims more than $5 million. None of them shows a method, and most were written before the 2024 downswing and the 2025 losing year he posted himself.

His gross figures are large and his net position is unknowable. He said in February 2024 that one Hustler loss was worth more than his house, then reported a seven-figure fortnight in June 2026. Any single figure freezes one of those moments and ignores the other.

The estimate also depends on how much of his action he sells. He has sold pieces of tournament buy-ins on StakeKings and, on some streamed cash games, a large share of his seat. Those splits never appear in a tracked payout.

How much has Rampage won playing poker?

His tracked live tournament earnings total $3,903,200 across 218 cashes, per The Hendon Mob, a snapshot taken on 28 September 2026. That figure ranks him 736th on the all-time money list and tenth among Massachusetts players.

The number is gross prize money, not profit. It excludes every buy-in, every rebuy and every staking split, and it covers live results only.

WSOP.com lists $1,714,426 in earnings across WSOP brands, which folds his WSOP.com online cashes in with his live WSOP results. That total overlaps the Hendon Mob figure rather than adding to it.

The bottom three rows are his figures or the broadcaster’s, not a database’s. We keep them separate from tracked earnings because they cannot be verified the same way, but they matter more to the net worth question than any prize pool does.

The five things nobody outside his circle knows

Every net worth estimate for Rampage rests on five unknowns, and the gaps run in both directions.

Strip the buy-ins from the gross at the roughly 50% ratio he reported for his best year, then deduct tax and the losses he has posted, and the liquid picture lands near the floor of our range. The house and the equity carry the ceiling.

Ethan Yau was born in 1997 and grew up in Massachusetts. He attended Boston College High School, class of 2015, then UMass Amherst, where he studied business management and graduated in 2019.

Poker arrived late in that timeline. By his own account he started playing in the winter of 2018, during his final year of college, after a detour through sports betting and blackjack.

Boston, BC High and UMass Amherst

The Boston-area background still shows in his results. His first recorded live cash came at Encore Boston Harbor on 31 October 2019, a $1,800 payout for fourth place in a $160 event, and the Hendon Mob lists his residence as Quincy, just south of the city.

He has never made a public event of moving elsewhere, even though most of his recorded results and streamed sessions come from Las Vegas and Los Angeles. The Massachusetts address has stayed on his player record throughout.

Where the Rampage name comes from

The nickname predates poker by nearly a decade. In a post on X he explained that “Rampage” was a Call of Duty username he picked at age 12, in 2009. He tried and failed with more than 20 YouTube channels under it before poker gave him a subject.

The name fitted the play. His channel tagline still invites viewers to “watch some punts” and stay for the wins, and the two words have followed him from $1/$2 to nosebleed stakes.

From a $500 buy-in lost in 15 minutes to a full-time grind

His first casino session was at an 18+ room about 90 minutes from home, where he lost a $500 buy-in in a quarter of an hour. His first vlog, by his own account, was only his third time playing.

The early episodes covered $1/$2 and $1/$3 no-limit hold’em in New England card rooms. He learned the format by watching Brad Owen, Andrew Neeme and Johnnie Vibes, and copied the structure: buy in on camera, show the hands, count the stack at the end.

The bankroll story that followed is unusual because he kept publishing it. His 2021 year-end video reported $50,765 in cash game profit at stakes from $1/$2 up to $25/$50 and $188,449 from tournaments, a combined $239,214.

Where most bankroll challenges collapse in silence, his have collapsed on camera. That is why his Road to a Million appears in the site’s guide to why poker bankroll challenges usually fail.

The Rampage channel was created on 6 January 2018 and has grown to roughly 372,000 subscribers and 121 million views across about 1,175 videos. It remains the reason most people search his name.

The format has barely changed: a session, the biggest hands, the result. What changed is the stakes on screen and the size of the numbers in the year-end videos.

How the channel grew from 2018 to 372,000 subscribers

The channel crossed 100,000 subscribers in October 2021, the month he won the MSPT Venetian Main Event for $230,379. The 2022 tournament run, the Hustler Casino Live appearances and the WPT High Roller win pushed it past 200,000 within about 14 months.

Growth since then has been steadier than the bankroll. The move into $100/$200 and $200/$400 streamed games gave the channel its biggest hands, and the early 2024 downswing gave it its most-watched confessional.

A personal channel under his own name sits alongside the main one, and he was named Best Vlogger and Best Poker Personality at the fan-voted 2022 Global Poker Awards, when the channel was barely four years old.

How much does Rampage make from YouTube?

He answered that himself once. In January 2022 he posted a video showing his channel analytics for 2021: just under $188,000 in ad revenue across two channels, from roughly 20 million views that year.

That was turnover, not profit. He pays an editor and other production costs, and the figure excludes sponsorships, affiliate income and merchandise, which he did not disclose.

He has not repeated the exercise since, so no later figure exists. Views have roughly doubled since that video, and the two ambassador deals came later, which is why our net worth workings treat YouTube as a mid six-figure annual gross rather than the 2021 number.

Awards and the vlogger cohort

He is one of the second wave of poker vloggers, the group that learned from Owen and Neeme and then pushed the format into high stakes. Mariano is the closest comparison: same route from small games to Hustler Casino Live, opposite results in 2025.

The cohort now overlaps heavily with the streamed cash game scene, and several of them appear on the same shows and own pieces of the same card room. Profiles of the other poker streamers and content creators on the site show how far the group has spread.

Rampage came up as a cash game player, and the tournament record has outgrown that label: two bracelets, five rings, a WPT festival title worth close to $900,000 and cashes on Triton, the PokerGO Tour and the Asian circuit.

His tournament results are also the only part of his career that a database tracks in full. Everything below comes from The Hendon Mob, WSOP.com and the tours’ own reports.

Does Rampage have a WSOP bracelet?

Yes, two. The first came online on 26 July 2020 in the WSOP Online $500 Grande Finale on WSOP.com, a 2,502-entry field with a $1,125,900 prize pool. He beat Brian Patrick heads-up for $164,494 and livestreamed the final table on YouTube.

The second took six years and arrived in a hybrid format. He won the WSOP 2026 Online $5,300 6-Max Championship, playing the online stages before a live final table on 29 June 2026, beating Adrian Mateos and his six WSOP bracelets heads-up for $228,825 from 226 entries.

The Mateos result carries extra weight. The Spaniard was chasing a sixth bracelet that summer, and days later he won it in the $250,000 High Roller, as covered in the full WSOP 2026 recap and records.

What is Rampage’s biggest poker win?

His career-best cash is $894,240 for winning the WPT World Championship $25,700 High Roller at Wynn Las Vegas in December 2022. The event drew 108 entries for a $2.7 million prize pool, with 11 places paid.

He built a roughly three-to-one chip lead going into heads-up against Kevin Rabichow and closed it when K♥ J♥ held against Q♠ J♠. The final hand came in the early hours of 13 December, after nearly 14 hours of play.

Seven of the ten are wins or runner-up finishes, and six of them came in 2024 or later. The table mixes live and online-stage events; the Hendon Mob total counts only the live ones.

Poker Masters and the high roller circuit

Three months before the WPT win, he took down Poker Masters 2022 Event #2, a $10,000 event at the PokerGO Studio with 76 entries and a $760,000 prize pool. He beat Alex Foxen heads-up with 8♠ 8♥ against A♣ K♠ for $197,600 and his first PokerGO Tour points.

Foxen went on to build Alex Foxen’s high roller record into the tour’s top-ranked season of 2025, which makes the result age well.

The high roller circuit has stayed part of the schedule since. He finished runner-up in the Wynn Millions $10,500 High Roller in March 2024, fourth in the WPT World Championship $25,400 High Roller in December 2025 and second in the PGT Kickoff $5,100 in January 2026.

WSOP Circuit rings and WPT festival titles

WSOP.com credits him with five WSOP Circuit rings, 30 final tables and 188 WSOP cashes. Secondary sites quote six or seven rings; the official page is the count we use.

Three of the rings came in a four-month stretch.

On the World Poker Tour he owns two festival titles, the $25,700 High Roller and the WPT Australia Mini Main Event in September 2023 for A$148,910. Neither is a WPT Main Tour championship, a distinction competitor profiles routinely blur.

Bounty formats have suited his style. Two of his 2026 WSOP cashes came in the $10,000 Mystery Bounty and the GGMillion$ High Roller, and the site’s PKO and mystery bounty strategy guide covers the adjustments those events reward.

Triton and the 2026 tournament rebound

He has cashed four times on the Triton Super High Roller Series, the first in early 2025.

He also played both $200,000 Triton Invitationals of 2026, partnered with a professional at Jeju II, without cashing. The Invitational is the one Triton format where an amateur-and-pro pairing sits down together.

The 2026 rebound is wider than Triton. A third in the APT Taipei NT$330,000 Super High Roller for $138,857, the PGT Kickoff runner-up and the second bracelet make it his best tournament year since 2022.

Streamed cash games made Rampage a name beyond YouTube, and they have produced both the largest wins and the largest losses of his career. Most of the record comes from Hustler Casino Live, with regular appearances on Poker at the Lodge.

His own posts are the only complete ledger. Broadcast data covers the sessions that aired, and nothing covers the private games.

How much has Rampage lost on Hustler Casino Live?

There is no public lifetime figure, only the sessions he and the show have disclosed. The worst was a $100/$200/$400 game in early 2024 where he put $800,000 on the table and left with $253,000, a $547,000 loss in one sitting.

The table is a highlights reel, not a ledger. It shows why any net worth figure for him has to be a range: a single fortnight can move it by seven figures.

The first big one came in March 2022, his debut at $50/$100/$200. He bought in for $150,000 across two bullets and lost roughly $150,000, most of it with ace-king into Garrett Adelstein’s aces, in a session he vlogged in full.

Losing to the show’s defining regular counted as a rite of passage, and Garrett Adelstein’s Hustler Casino Live legacy explains why.

The wins are just as public. In June 2026 the show reported him up more than $1.3 million across three games in two weeks, including a $676,000 pot where his K♣ Q♦ held against the K♦ 6♣ of Texas Mike.

The $1.1 million bluff and the Million Dollar Game

The hand people still send each other is from the March 2023 Million Dollar Game at $500/$1,000/$2,000 with a big blind ante. Holding ace-high, he bet the river into a pot of roughly $1.1 million against Handz and got the fold.

His session result that night has been reported at two different figures, so we do not print one. The bluff itself was broadcast and is not in dispute.

He was back in the Million Dollar Game lineup in 2026, when the show staged it during the WSOP. Our report on the Million Dollar Game’s move to WSOP week covers the June games that produced the run.

The 2024 downswing and the move back to $1/$3

In February 2024 he wrote a Substack post titled “losing respect”, dated the day he lost $84,000 on the Hustler stream, describing a “$1,000,000 downswing” over the preceding months. He put the word in quotation marks himself, blaming tilt, gambling too hard and “playing way above my bankroll”.

The $547,000 session came in the same stretch. He said on camera that the loss was worth more than his house and that he would drop back to $1/$3, the smallest game most US rooms spread, and he talked about a break from both playing and content.

The break did not last, but the post did. VIP-Grinders covered Rampage’s seven-figure downswing in early 2024 at the time, and it remains the clearest account he has given of how the losses happened.

2025 losses and the 2026 rebound

His post on 6 July 2025 asked who had a worse year in poker than him, with a ledger attached. The numbers on it were his own.

The contrast with his closest peer was stark, and the site set out how Rampage’s 2025 compared with Mariano’s in January 2026: one vlogger down $357,213, the other up $1,257,000.

The turn came late in 2025. By February 2026 he had booked five straight winning Hustler sessions worth $448,200 combined, and Rampage’s fifth straight winning HCL session added $50,650 on the night Mariano cracked aces with six-three.

Then came June. The show’s own figure for three games that month is the largest short-run result he has ever had reported, and it arrived in the same fortnight as his second bracelet.

The rivalry with Nik Airball runs through the whole period, from the aces he lost to Airball in 2022, revisited in Airball’s slowroll after cracking Rampage’s aces, to the two of them buying into the same Texas card room three years later.

Rampage plays a high-aggression, high-variance game, and he says so himself. The channel tagline promises punts, and commentators on both the tournament and cash game sides describe his willingness to put a whole stack in on thin edges.

Four traits recur in the coverage and in his own year-end reviews.

Is Rampage a good poker player?

By tournament results, yes. Two bracelets, five Circuit rings, a high roller win of close to $900,000 and 218 tracked cashes are not the record of a content creator who happens to play.

The cash game record is harder to read. His own accounting shows a profitable 2021, a $1 million hole in early 2024, a losing 2025 and a huge fortnight in 2026, which is the profile of a player whose edge exists but whose variance is enormous.

Our view is that the tournament record understates him and the streamed cash record overstates the swings, because he plays the biggest games available rather than the games his roll supports.

Punts, binks and variance

The style is deliberate. He has said that generating action and interest is part of the job, and Doug Polk cited exactly that when he brought him into the Lodge ownership group.

It also means the results are noisier than a tighter player’s would be, and our tournament variance and downswing calculator shows how long a losing stretch a high-variance style can produce even for a winning player.

Bankroll management: the standing criticism

The one criticism that has followed him since 2022 is bankroll discipline. His own February 2024 post admitted to playing far above his roll and to sitting in games where 50% to 100% of his net worth was on the table.

He has managed the exposure three ways, all of them public.

Selling pieces reduces the swing but also reduces the profit, and the splits are never public.

For readers who want the conventional version of the rules he has broken, our guide to poker bankroll management rules sets out the buy-in counts and risk-of-ruin maths that most professionals follow.

Rampage’s income away from the tables comes from two ambassador roles, a stake in the largest poker room in Texas and, in 2026, a single trading card. None of the terms are public.

WPT Global and ClubWPT Gold

He became WPT Global’s first dedicated content and brand ambassador in April 2023 and has been part of the room’s ambassador roster since. WPT Global serves international markets only and is not available to US players.

The World Poker Tour also bills him as a ClubWPT Gold ambassador, the title it used for him at its Venetian stop in 2025. The terms of both deals are private, and this profile carries no promotional code for either.

Investor in the Lodge Card Club

In March 2025 Doug Polk announced that Rampage and Nik Airball had joined the Lodge Card Club ownership group in Round Rock, Texas, alongside Polk, Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme. Polk called them two of the largest personalities in poker and credited Rampage’s early stream appearances with growing the room.

The investment turned sour within a year. On 10 March 2026 Texas state agents, county deputies and the IRS raided the Round Rock venue, and the March 2026 raid on the Lodge Card Club led to a full shutdown and the layoff of roughly 200 staff two weeks later.

Polk announced reopening plans after the grand jury no-bill that cleared the Lodge, while the forfeiture case over the seized cash continues. The value of Rampage’s stake has never been disclosed, before or after the raid.

The two newest investors were already a pairing. Fellow Lodge investor Nik Airball’s profile covers the other half of the deal. For the ownership story from January 2022 onwards, Doug Polk’s career and business ventures sets out how the room was bought and built.

The Rayquaza flip: a $340,000 card sold for $700,000

In February 2026 he paid $340,000 for a PSA 10 Gold Star Rayquaza, a 2005 Pokémon card he called the pinnacle of the hobby. He wore it at the final table when he won his second bracelet four months later.

By September he had sold it. His own post put the sale at $700,000 and the profit at over $300,000, and explained that holding an asset worth high six figures had brought a new kind of stress.

It is the one business result of his that can be stated as a number, which is why it appears in the net worth workings above.

Rampage has been in four public disputes that meet an evidence bar: a second-account episode on ACR Poker, a loan he says was never repaid, a July 2026 exchange with Allen Kessler and a staking refund debate after his biggest win. Anonymous forum claims about him are not reported here.

In each case we set out what was alleged, what he said, and where it ended.

The ACR second-account episode

On 5 September 2023 Paul Risman posted screenshots accusing him of multi-accounting on ACR Poker, showing that he had finished second in a $109 event for about $47,000 under a second username. The multi-accounting accusation from Paul Risman was covered on this site the following day.

Rampage answered within hours with three statements of his own.

ACR’s chief executive said security would review the accounts and that any funds would be returned to him. Tony Dunst and others said the conduct broke the site’s terms without amounting to cheating. No ban was reported, and the accounts were never shown in use at the same time.

The $450,000 loan and other scam claims

In July 2023 he said publicly that he had lent money to an Instagram influencer after his WPT win and was owed “well over $450,000”, unpaid for five months. He offered to settle the debt in a bare-knuckle boxing match, and no repayment has ever been reported.

He has posted about being let down since, including a “scammer of 2024” award for a sportsbook agent he said refused to pay out.

Both claims are his own and neither has an independent resolution on the record. This profile treats them as unrecovered losses in the net worth workings, not as facts about the people he named.

What happened with Rampage and Allen Kessler?

In July 2026 Kessler posted that Rampage was “drawing dead” against a list of notable players. Rampage replied by calling him a “cancer to this industry” and offering a $100/$200 heads-up match over 100,000 hands.

The exchange ran for days, and it ended with nothing booked.

The StakeKings refund debate

His WPT High Roller win came on a second bullet he paid for himself, after busting the first bullet that his StakeKings backers had bought into. Some backers argued he had implied he would not re-enter without them.

He responded by refunding every first-bullet investor double their stake. The gesture, reported at around $80,000, settled the complaint for most observers, though a debate about the precedent for action-selling ran on for weeks.

Rampage keeps the camera on the poker. No family or relationship details are on the public record, and his social accounts are about hands, results and the occasional card purchase.

How old is Rampage Poker?

He was born on 12 September 1997, which makes him 29 years old. The year is confirmed by his own accounts and interviews; the day and month come from player databases rather than from him.

That timeline puts his first casino session at 20 or 21 and his first bracelet at 22 or 23. Almost everything in this profile happened before he turned 30.

Where does Rampage live?

The Hendon Mob lists his residence as Quincy, Massachusetts, on Boston’s south shore. Most of his recorded results and streamed sessions come from Las Vegas and the Los Angeles area, where Hustler Casino Live films, so he spends much of the year on the road.

He has referred to owning a house, in the context of a Hustler loss that exceeded its value, without saying where it is.

His public writing runs through four accounts, none of them about anything but poker and cards.

Golf, Pokémon and life off the felt

Golf is the hobby that leaks into the poker content. During his 2024 downswing he talked about switching to it for a while.

Later that year he floated prop bets on his golf game and invited online critics to fade his WSOP results. Rampage’s golf and chat pro prop bets were among the site’s picks that year.

The other interest is collecting, which turned into the Rayquaza purchase and its sale seven months later. He has said the card reconnected him with his childhood, then admitted that owning it had become a source of stress.

Two PGT Kickoff final tables in January, fifth and then second, set the tone for Rampage’s 2026. Those were the first cashes of a run that produced three six-figure scores by the end of June and his best tournament year since 2022.

The results followed. He took third in the APT Taipei Super High Roller in April, cashed twice at Triton Montenegro in May and won his second bracelet in Las Vegas on 29 June.

Rampage’s 2026 results so far

The bracelet was the headline, but the WSOP summer also brought 64th in the $10,000 6-Handed Championship and 60th in the $10,000 Mystery Bounty. The Mateos heads-up gained a footnote when the Spaniard responded with Mateos’ sixth bracelet in the $250K High Roller within the same series.

September took him back to Asia for the Triton Jeju II Super High Roller Series, where he cashed the opening event and played the $200,000 Invitational alongside a professional partner. The same month he confirmed the sale of his Rayquaza card.

Away from tournaments, the June run on Hustler Casino Live remains the year’s biggest number, and he was among the guests for Phil Hellmuth’s Home Game second season, filmed early in the year.

What comes next

The WPT World Championship returns to Wynn Las Vegas from 13 to 20 December, where he has final-tabled the $25,000 High Roller in two of the last four years. The Lodge forfeiture case and the club’s reopening are the other threads to watch.

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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.

Rampage’s $2M to $4M range was computed in September 2026 from his tracked earnings, the results he has published himself and the losses he has disclosed. The one third-party figure we found, above $5 million on a poker media site, carries no method and predates his 2024 and 2025 losses.

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.

His online and hybrid bracelet money is reported separately from the live total. His own year-end figures are attributed to him each time they appear and are never blended with tracked data.

How we cover controversies

Where controversies exist, we report verified facts and clearly sourced claims without editorialising or assigning blame. Where a matter was investigated, we note the outcome.

The ACR, loan, Kessler and StakeKings sections above follow that approach. Anonymous forum claims about him are not reported.