Connor Rash

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About

Connor Rash, known online as “FearTheReaper” and ranked #1 on PocketFives in 2024, is a Florida-based tournament professional and GTO LAB coach who won his first World Poker Tour title at the 2025 WPT bestbet Scramble Championship, defeating a field of 327 entries including high-stakes veteran Byron Kaverman to take home $315,350 and cross the $1 million career earnings milestone.

Rash brings a methodical, solver-informed approach to his coaching, with a focus on postflop line selection, river exploitation, and building exploitable advantages by forcing opponents into under-studied spots they’re unlikely to have balanced ranges for. His coaching at GTO LAB spans postflop solver work and hand history review. His teaching topics include:

• Forcing opponents into difficult nodes — how to maximise EV by steering opponents into uncomfortable and under-studied positions, identifying the spots where population ranges are most unbalanced and constructing lines that exploit those gaps
• River blocker heuristics and exploit overbets — breaking down protected check-backs, identifying the best bluffing candidates using blocker logic, and constructing thin river overbets that exploit calling-too-wide tendencies
• Postflop solver methodology — using solver outputs to build practical in-game heuristics rather than memorising exact frequencies, and understanding which deviations from GTO are genuinely costly in real tournament spots
• Alternative postflop lines — when and how to deviate from standard lines to create range asymmetry, including non-standard sizings and turn and river continuation strategies

Connor’s coaching style reflects his tournament game — precise, technically grounded, and built around extracting every available edge from each postflop decision tree.