**Hello Friends! Welcome to My Poker Journey!** My name is **Ricky Guan**, also known as **ratedGTO** on all social media and poker sites. I am an ambassador for Team Runitup and a broadcaster for some of the biggest tournaments in the world. I also play the highest stakes online MTTs and cash games available to me in America. **My Poker Timeline:** **March 2013:** First started playing poker. Shoutout to BU Poker Club! I met some of my closest friends there and we went on to spend way too many hours playing $1/2 at Turning Stone. After I I graduated college in 2015, I spent more time playing online, specializing in 6-max cash and starting at 5NL. **September 2016:** Recorded my first live cash. This is significant to me because I bricked my first 20 live tournaments! If at first you don't succeed, try, try, try again. **April 2017:** The biggest month of my poker career. I got 2nd in a Borgata $400 prelim and 6th in the $2700 Main Event for an $80,000 week. You can watch the FT replay here: [2017 Borgata SPO $1M Guarantee Championship](https://youtu.be/T32Md3ht3Sw)

**April 2017:** This was also the month we put together the **#YoungWizards**! What started as a plan to help stake 2 of my closest college friends until they graduated, turned into a group of some of the brightest poker talent in America since Black Friday. **Wsopboy** went from playing the Daily Dime to winning 4 Sunday Majors in 3 weeks and over $500k in online earnings the past year! **Stephen Song** crushed the live arena for over $500k in earnings, including a Borgata WPT FT score for $138k! And we have a couple of newly turned 21 year olds who are ready to showcase their talent to the poker world! **January 2018:** #YoungWizards take over NJ. We decided to move in together, kind of like what they did in *2 Months 2 Million*. I won my first Borgata title in the $560+1k Super KO and started playing regulated online poker on all the NJ sites. **May 14, 2018:** First stream here on Twitch! Much more content to come =) **September 13, 2018:** [Team RIU Ambassador Announcement](https://runitup.com/2018/09/13/run-it-up-welcomes-ricky-guan-ratedgto-to-team-riu/)