PokerNews Streamer Spotlight: Carter Swidler Using New Tools for an Old Game

PokerNews will be hosting a number of players who will stream upcoming sessions on the PokerNews Twitch.tv channel. In this series, we’ll introduce you to the players whose streams will be featured by PokerNews.

As poker streaming gains steam on the Twitch.tv platform, there’s an ever-growing number of options for consumers. More and more players are firing up their own streams, plenty of them respected and accomplished grinders on both the live and online felts.

But how many can say they have over $5 million in documented poker cashes?

That’s surely the hook that will draw many to the stream of Carter “cswidler” Swidler, a longtime pro who has made the journey from high school home games to venerable provider of knowledge for the next generation. That knowledge is something Swidler notes he never had as he was coming up in the game, and it’s something he identifies as the biggest change in poker from then to now.

“There are way more tools and resources available for anyone who wants to be a student of the game these days,” he said. “Therefore, the players now, compared to the players 10 years ago, are exponentially better. With these tools, Players get good a lot faster than I did.”

He rattles off a number of such tools: online coaching, poker training websites, hours and hours of Youtube footage, and now Twitch streams. Despite the lack of resources, Swidler managed to figure things out well enough. Starting from small games with …

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