Our Coaches
Meet the Team!
Ryan Riske
"Ristokat"
Head Coach
Stake Range: 500-10kNL
Results Date: Jan 2023-Mar 2025
Untracked Results over this Period: +~$500k
Ryan graduated from the University of Western Ontario with a degree in Finance and Administration. He discovered online poker while getting his degree, and managed to turn a $50 deposit into over $40,000 while playing casually throughout college. After a few years in the 'real world' working as a consultant, he decided that it wasn’t for him and left his job to play poker and stream on Twitch/YouTube. Ryan was crushing small stakes for several years while streaming on Twitch before his professional poker career took off. He met the rest of the PWR team while offering 1-on-1 poker coaching, and created this study group to level up faster. Within a year, he went from 100z to 500NL +. These days, Ryan plays at the 1k-10kNL stakes and is one of the biggest winners in his pool.
Connor Armstrong
"yourmomishhot"
Head Coach
Stake Range: 1k-20kNL
ACR/Coin Results: Jan 2024-Mar2025
Untracked Results over this Period: +~$300k
Connor is a former professional ultimate frisbee player out of Toronto representing the Canadian national team in Poland, Australia and Germany. He discovered poker in 2015 during his freshman year studying Human Kinetics at the University of Guelph, quickly getting hooked just like he did when playing strategy games growing up. He played recreationally for close to a year before he decided to take poker seriously and study with other dedicated players. Connor met Ryan, Andrew and GC and the four of them quickly progressed through the stakes. Connor has been moving up the stakes and is now crushing the 1k-20kNL games.
Andrew Ivers
"AIvers2"
Head Coach
Stake Range: 500-10kNL
Results Date: Jan 2022-Jan 2025
Untracked Results over this Period: +~$500k
Andrew was introduced to poker at 17 years old while browsing Twitch and immediately fell in love with the game. At the time, he was competing as a professional Call of Duty player for TSM and Renegades. After playing casually for 18 months, he decided to take a more serious approach to poker and hired Ryan Riske as his coach and made the switch to playing poker full-time. He and Ryan quickly became friends, along with coaches Connor and GC, while working on their game together. Andrew has now been playing poker full-time for over 8 years and is now crushing the mid-high stake games.
Armin Amini
"AbsoluteTopUp"
Head Coach
Stake Range: 1k-20kNL
Results Date: Jan 2024-Jan 2025
Untracked Results over this Period: +~$40k
While Armin was studying chemistry pre-med his first year of college during the COVID pandemic, his Call of Duty friends introduced him to poker. He was able to dedicate a lot of time to learning and playing online poker, and with the help of his gaming friends, was able to climb from 10NL all the way to 500NL. In 2021, he started to work with solvers and in just a year, he was able to make it all the way up to 10kNL. At the end of 2022, poker became his main focus and started working with the PWR coaches at the end of 2023. Armin has since competed in the Cash Game World Championships, ranking 10th place amongst some of the best players in the world. He spoke about his experience on the Mechanics of Poker Podcast, which you can watch by clicking here.
GC
"L3G3NDA1RY"
Head Coach
Stake Range: 1k-5kNL
Results Date: Jan 2024-Feb 2025
Untracked Results over this Period: +~$380k
In 2011, GC graduated from the University of Waterloo with a degree in Accounting and Financial Management. He then got a job as an analyst at one of the biggest wealth management firms in the world. While working in 2012, he was introduced to poker by stumbling across a High Stakes Poker episode on TV. This then led to him creating a pokerstars account in 2012 and hopping into the 10NL streets where he was a casual breakeven player until 2016. GC started to take a more serious approach to poker by studying with other players in his pool which is where he met Ryan, Connor and Andrew. They formulated a study group that propelled GC to move from 100NL to 1kNL in less than a year's time. In 2018, he made the decision to quit his job in finance and to make the jump to becoming a professional poker player. Nowadays, albeit being one of the lower volume grinders among pros, GC is likely one of the highest win rate regs in the world.
