An American poker hero, a tournament titan, and one of PokerStake’s finest. Brock Wilson has become one of the most reliable poker players in the modern game. From his origins in banking and finance to his mastery of high stakes, small-field events in Las Vegas, Brock has climbed to within reach of the top 100 poker players of all time. He’s also one of the most profitable players ever to sell action on PokerStake.

A World of Finance

“I was always playing poker on Sundays with my friends.”

Brock’s origins go back to a life very different to the world of poker. Back in the early 2010s, there were no poker festivals on a consistent basis for Brock. In an interview with PokerNews, Brock revealed that he used to be a very different creature when it came to the industry he worked in.

“I was very serious about school and majoring in finance,” he said. “I enjoyed that, and all my friends were in finance, so that was the goal and trajectory for me. But I was always playing poker on Sundays with my friends.”

That happy hobby became something Brock enjoyed more than ever but it took several years for it to turn into a profession. Brock’s earliest live cash in a ranking event was the $4,238 he won in 2010 playing at the Venetian Deep Stack Extravaganza in Las Vegas, where he came sixth out of 366 players. Despite this success, Brock took some time to start making cashes on a regular basis, not making the money in another live event until 2014, four years later.

Becoming the Poker Professional

“I was going to take a risk while I was young and didn’t have major financial responsibilities.”

Graduating with a degree in mathematics and finance might not have led to a career in either of those industries, but the poker smarts that Brock picked up were all built on a solid foundation of poker math and business sense. Taking time out to play poker in Las Vegas every summer gave him the bug and two years after his graduation, he quit to take up poker on a permanent basis.

“I had built a bit of a bankroll online so I decided I was going to take a risk while I was young and didn’t have major financial responsibilities.” He said. Buddying up with his fellow poker pro Ali Imsirovic, Brock struck out on his early forays into the high roller circuit he was desperate to become accustomed to. However, 2019 was a hot one, as Brock cashed several times and won over a million dollars in November of December.

The COVID pandemic of 2020 – and to a lesser extent 2021 – didn’t help Brock given his rapid rise in the live poker world. But when high rollers came back, so did Brock and he went from strength to strength. Moving to Las Vegas during the pandemic, he was now in his element and with live poker bigger than ever before, he became a fixture in the biggest games in Sin City.

Brock is capable of superb plays at the live felt, as evidenced by this incredible call he made when Elio Fox attempted to bluff the American off a pot by betting half of his remaining stack.

Crushing Live Poker and Selling Action

Brock has previously admitted that his outgoing, engaging personality has to be tempered a lot at the poker felt. It’s one of the reasons he plays such a tight live game – he is super conscious of what he could give away.

Always thinking about how he can maximise winnings while enjoying himself in his favorite tournaments, Brock started selling on PokerStake some time ago. He’s quickly become one of the most successful players ever on the site. With 270 followers, Brock has $3.8 million in total winnings in events he’s advertised on PokerStake, with his best result being the 2,110% profit he banked in the ARIA Poker Masters Event #7 where he won $331,200.

That’s not Brock’s biggest ever monetary result on the site, however, with the $650,000 he won in the $50,000-entry NLHE 8-Max Event #32 at the World Series of Poker his biggest windfall on the site. Winning a profit of six figures is just something Brock has become used to, as the man with an unerring eye for numbers turned into the bank once he started playing high rollers in Las Vegas, building a fortune of $11.8 million in live tournament earnings in the past decade.

Why not back Brock in upcoming events? Here’s his official PokerStake staking page.