The guy behind the Sidekick

I'm Rick. I've been playing poker for almost thirty years — 1/3 and 2/5 cash, plus tournaments when they count, including the WSOP. I've played the Main Event three times and cashed it in 2006 for $16,493. Several tournament wins in Black Hawk, Colorado, where you'll still find me at the tables most weeks — about an hour down the hill from my home in Evergreen.

Here's the part that actually matters.

I'm neurodivergent. Every single time I sit down, I bring the same brain you do — the one that reads a table like radar, feels the shift in a player's rhythm before they know they've shifted, and then completely blanks on a range chart it has "studied" forty times. Thirty years of that. Thirty years of knowing the theory exists, knowing it works, and watching my brain bounce off the format it comes in.

The books weren't written for us.

Hundreds of range grids, frequency-mixed, memorize-and-recall — that's a game designed for the rainmen. And for three decades the choice was: grind against your own wiring, or wing it.

I got tired of both. So I built the third option.

The Divergent Sidekick isn't a business idea I market-tested. It's the tool I needed at the table for thirty years — the full theory underneath, cut down to the handful of things a brain like ours can actually hold under fire. I didn't simplify the poker. I simplified the load.

Everything they call our weakness is a setting we learned to control — and they didn't.

And as always, I'll see you neuro Ds at the tables!
— Rick