Billy McNulty,
better known as
DGAF.

DGAF has been playing cards since he was old enough to hold them. Growing up in Southern California, he was drawn to the psychology of the game: the reads, the double reverse fake tells, the tension of big decisions. He was that kid in the casinos before the 2003 Moneymaker boom, playing stud hi-lo and limit hold'em with old-timers, grinding out a small win rate as a preflop warrior.

The day his local casino in SD spread its first no-limit hold'em game, he sat down within an hour. Thirty minutes later, he check-shoved the river with ace-high on a missed draw. The old man folded jacks face-up. DGAF knew he had found his game.

He devoured every poker book he could find — Super System, Theory of Poker — and immersed himself in the Two Plus Two forums. By day, he worked his way up the ladder at a delivery company that would eventually be bought by Grubhub... but by night, he was winning more at the casino than his day job paid.

In 2007, he turned professional. By 2008, he was debt-free and playing poker for a living.

DGAF's central belief is simple: being good for the game matters more than being good at the game. He's been saying it for over a decade: on Two Plus Two, on his podcast, in every interview he's given.

Most poker pros spend their careers trying to prove how smart they are. They dress like pros, talk like pros, act like pros. And in doing so, they drive away the very people who make the game worth playing. DGAF argues that the fastest way to kill a game is to make the recreational players feel unwelcome.

His solution: sacrifice a little EV. Be fun to play with. Straddle when everyone else does. Talk. Laugh. Lose small pots gracefully. Make people want to come back. Not because it's nice — because it's the only sustainable strategy.

This philosophy has made him one of the most beloved figures in the poker community. Fellow pros seek his advice on game-building. Streams ask him to play and/or commentate. Recreational players remember him as the guy who made the game fun. It's not an accident — it's by design.

DGAF isn't about not caring. It's about caring about the right things.

It's about being free from the opinions that don't matter. Free from the performance. Free from the need to prove yourself to people who were never going to be satisfied anyway. It's the freedom that comes when you stop acting like a "pro" and start being a person.

His Two Plus Two bio says it best: "Sometimes high, sometimes low, sometimes stuck in the past wondering why. Sometimes in the zone killing it though, always resilient, and always up for some love."

That's DGAF. Not a character. Not a brand. Just a guy who plays poker, tells the truth, and is trying to build stuff that's good for the game.

DGAF Poker is many things — a live stream, a podcast, a commentary desk, an apparel brand, a growing community. But at its core, it's what happens when someone who loves the game decides to give back to it instead of taking from it.