Reckful

Reckful
Status Active
Born Byron Bernstein
(1989-05-08) May 8, 1989
Hometown Los Angeles, California
Nationality United States
Games World of Warcraft
Asheron's Call
Professional career
2009–2011 compLexity Gaming[1]

Byron Bernstein (born May 8, 1989), better known by his online alias Reckful, is an American Twitch.tv streamer and former professional eSports player. He is currently working with his community to create a game.[2] In June 2018, he began releasing a podcast called Tea Time w Byron, which features long-form interviews with notable guests in the gaming and streaming communities.[3] Bernstein is best known in the gaming community for his achievements in World of Warcraft and Asheron's Call.[4][5][6][7]

Career

In World of Warcraft, he finished rank one online for six seasons in succession. He was the first person to reach 3000 rating and won Major League Gaming's World of Warcraft tournament in 2010.[8]

In 2011, Bernstein released the gaming movie, Reckful 3. It reached one million views within a week.[9] He later won the WarcraftMovies top skilled contest, in which players cast their vote for player of the year.[10] In 2012, he became a developer, operations manager, and concept designer at Feenix, a gaming mouse company.[11] He created his YouTube channel in October 2012 and followed in November with his first video, "Reckful 5 stack Taste for Blood."

In 2017, Bernstein was ranked 4th in a list of top ten most successful streamers. He claimed to have net worth of $1.5 million and has garnered up to 50,000 viewers per stream.[12][13]

Personal life

Bernstein plays poker and entered the 2016 Unibet Open London main event, but was knocked out early.[14] In November 2017, Bernstein played in a charity poker event sponsored by PokerGO.[15] The event was won by itsHafu.[16]

LAN Achievements

World of Warcraft

  • 3rd Place MLG Dallas 2009
  • 2nd Place MLG Orlando 2009
  • 2nd Place MLG Columbus 2010
  • 1st Place MLG Washington DC 2010

Online Achievements

World of Warcraft

References

  1. ↑ Miesner, Andrew. "Complexity Gaming". Complexity Gaming. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  2. ↑ Bernstein, Byron. "Byron's Tweet Notification". Retrieved 15 July 2018.
  3. ↑ Bernstein, Byron. "iTunes Podcast Page". Missing or empty |url= (help); |access-date= requires |url= (help)
  4. ↑ Kwok, Samuel. "ArenaJunkies Interview". ArenaJunkies. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  5. ↑ "Rapture", Jeff. "Curse Interview". Curse. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  6. ↑ "Enarce", Aleks. "Prestige Gaming Russia". Prestige Gaming Russia. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  7. ↑ Micayla, Elane. "IGN - AC Vault". IGN. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  8. ↑ Radford, Michael. "3000 Rating". SK Gaming. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  9. ↑ "Boubouille", Beau. "MMO Champion". MMO Champion. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  10. ↑ Uzbeki, Sven. "Top Skilled". Warcraft Movies. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  11. ↑ Adrian, Shayani. "Feenix Collection". Feenix Collection. Retrieved 29 June 2012.
  12. ↑ Deml, Jessica (8 September 2017). "Top 10 Richest Gaming Streamers". The Gazette Review. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  13. ↑ Asarch, Steven (2017-10-28). "IRL STREAMING: SPONTANEOUS ENTERTAINMENT FOR AN AUDIENCE THAT'S ALWAYS LIVE". Newsweek. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  14. ↑ Glatzer, Jason (2016-03-03). "2016 Unibet Open London Main Event Day 1a: Jan Riha Leads the Pack". PokerNews. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  15. ↑ Cross, Valerie (2017-11-16). "Twitch Poker $100K Charity Invitational to Stream Live on Nov. 17-18". PokerNews. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
  16. ↑ Daniel Smyth (2017-11-20). "Poker Pros Welcome Gamers in Charity Poker Event for Twitch Streamers". Cardschat. Retrieved 2018-03-19.
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