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I actually like Kristy Arnett's vlog.

I think the thing is ...not everyone likes the same style. There is something for everyone though

That's not his ROI. ROI is based on total buy-ins (ie, the total amount invested), not size of roll vs starting roll.

He is down 14.7% of his roll.
His ROI is -$440/$14,040 = -3.13%

NoQuarter,

You are exiled from this thread. Bye!

Catched up with the latest of vlogs from Kristy, and its becoming little bit too much now- even from a time to time emo guy like me. She has smoothered the piano,slow sweet voice when delivering clichees and so forth. Sugar on top of candy its just ending up as too sweet.

I like Kristy as a person and communicator though, so her vlogs definetely have potenial, but the emo factor needs to be toned down and the vlogs needs more sharper interesting material.

I've never watched one of Kristy's vlogs, so I only have the descriptions in this thread to go on. But it occurs to me that her target audience may not be the type of people posting in this thread.

I noticed the other day that the #1 podcast on the Apple podcast app is "Oprah's SuperSoul Conversations". So it seems the mass popularity of this sort of saccharine, inspirational content may finally be filtering down to the media previously enjoyed mostly by young, nerdy, cynical men.

Yeah, you have a good point. And i have to make it clear that i personally like some of the follow your dreams/motivational content. But she needs to balance it more in my opinion, now she seems stuck in one sugarsweet gear.

Also +1 to the good things said about Johnnie Vibes. His vlogs are amazing, and some of the episodes is absolutely on par with the best of what Neeme have put out. He deserves so many more subs and viewers,most underrated vlogger up until now the way i see it.

Arnett's vlogs and Vibes' both suck. Wannabe motivational speakers who don't have anything new or interesting to say so they try and use poker players as a captive audience by misrepresenting their content as "poker vlogs". Vibe's constantly shilling his uninspired clothing line hurts his content as well. He talks about risk taking but then steals a boring business model from other people and doesn't put any creativity into it. That's not risk taking, it's the exact opposite of risk taking. If you're gonna lecture viewers on following their dreams, at least come up with a dream of your own.

I love Vibes' vlog, but I hate the clothing line. The clothing line has no creativity whatsoever. Rotating the Champion logo 90 degrees into a V is 100% uninspired (nevermind the copyright issues). The Champion logo reminds me of cheap ankle socks.

Does Troop know that he's singing "In the rio" to the tune of the song "In the ghetto"? I can't tell if he thinks he's singing a real song or if he's trying to be funny by making his own lyrics to an existing song.

I didn’t see it but the Rio is ghetto AF in the casino, terrible food options And their nasty rooms.

He’s got it right

JohnnieVibes is by far the best player out of all the vlogers and he doesn't vlog to shill his clothing line like you suggest. It may have been featured in one of his vlogs for a few minutes but it doesn't sound like you've watched him enough to realize what he's about (doesn't everyone else sell merchandise?). JV is as real as it gets.

I guess I'll preface this by saying that If I had to guess, I'm sure Kristy Arnett is a wonderful person but out of every Poker VLOG hers was the only one I couldn't even get to the end of. I skimmed to see if there was more, but thats about it. I enjoy watching pretty much everyone to some degree, Tropper, boski, neeme, brad, jaman, vibes, matt vaught, Jakt PLO, etc etc.

This whole Dream thing I guess just doesn't appeal to me. And a lot of times it's so far from reality and can actually be dangerous for people to watch. Life isn't a bunch of motivational quotes. Sure there are times where being reflective, or seeing bigger pictures is needed. But I wanna see the hard work. I want to see winning pots, losing pots, buying into cash games, buying into tournaments. Show some us some of the glimpse into your life. People want to follow along with your successes, and feel for the failures. It just seems way over produced, and its not even unique. It doesn't take much to download some editing software, put some music together, and talk about ones life passions. Show the journey.

So, what happens when you make a final table at some random WSOP event? Or even get a bracelet? Does that mean you made it? Dream achieved? Then what? Constant goals and internal drive seem far more healthy then having these "dreams". But what do I know I'm just a nobody posting on 2+2 forum

I don't think that everyone is wrong about Kristy's vlog. I had the same reaction of not being interested in the platitudes.

However, there are more and more women playing and succeeding at poker. Likewise, Kristy is cute and has a great personality as evidenced from 10 years of working in poker journalism and so people are familiar with her. I would imagine she is going to get some amount of people who are still hanging around poker from the Moneymaker boom as well as a lot of women who look at her as a motivating force.

I'm with you guys though, probably won't be watching more unless someone writes something and it piques my interest.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. My advice to a would-be poker vlogger would be to try to do something that isn't derivative and instead try to do something that feels different. It might not work, but maybe more people should try to be something other than a smarter version of Trooper.

I’m 99 percent sure he is. He used the line “a baby is born,” which comes from the lyrics to the Elvis song.


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I haven't watched Kristy's vlog, but reading the comments here made me think, "Hmm, that sounds like JVibe's vlogs but with little to no poker."

I'm not going to hate on him for doing his thing, but he's an outlier in terms of "relatability" at least as conveyed through the vlogs. I'm sure he's a good guy in person and would be fun to be around though.

Just wanted to respond to this comment and say that there is value in removing negative energy from your life. If people consistently are hateful I think the best course of action is to remove them from your life. Also, the term "echo chamber" is misguided in my opinion. The people that have the space to critique me the hardest are the people closest to me (like Kristy). I think its super important for the people in your "echo chamber" to have the space to give you critical feedback. If you can't rely on your friends and family to give you critical feedback who can you rely on?

Also, I've met Boski in real life and he seemed fine, but not a fan of his troll like tendencies. I think its bad form to constantly troll Trooper97 (who I've never met, nor have watched any of his vlogs), or Daniel (who I have met).

I just don't get it. If you don't like someone's content why does one feel the need to be a troll towards them? Just abstain from their content. Creating negative energy for the purposes of hurting others or views? I just can't get behind that.

It’s one of the reasons I have never started my own vlog.

In addition to the work and the fact I would be filming with my iPhone, I just don’t know why anyone would watch another $1/2 vlog from Vegas.

Other than looking like Jerry Garcia, I don’t know what I can bring to the table.


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Just saw Arnett grinding 5/10 at Venetian. Nice stack in front of her. Nice looking girl but too much make up.

Just watched Jeff Boskis wsop marathon vlog and I think I spotted the Trooper in the background when Jeff was going over hands. I really like Boskis vlogs and watch the Trooper as well.
Good luck this summer Jeff. Hope you make a big score.

100% with this. I think too many people in all facets of life, not just this thread, look at how others live based on their own life experiences, expectations and interests. When those things don't jive, it's hard to understand how that person can be happy. It just doesn't make sense to them.

I wish Trooper did better, because it only makes sense to me that he should want more. But likely for him, he is more than content with this little life he has carved out. Likewise, Johnny seems to be legit trying to surround himself with positivity so that he can be a mirror for that ****.

From personal experience, when you align yourself with nothing but negativity, that's the only reflection in your mirror. As you purge that negativity and surround yourself with more positivity, whether cliché or real or whatever YOU feel it is, you are generally more positive. And that **** is like a snowball rolling down the hill. Everyone can think this is bull**** or platitudes or whatever, but it's real to me.

Doesn't change that I am not interested in Kristy's Vlog versus my interest in Johnny's. I get enough motivation, for ME, from my channels and Kristy's feels a little inauthentic, to me. I hope only the best for her still. She seems like a good person and I only want good.

I guess I just think that JVibes is on to something, whether you think he is fake or not.

There is a ton of value in just removing negativity from your life, if for no other reason than for your mirror to reflect more positivity. Call me optimist, I don't care. I've been called far worse.

I'm very skeptical that this is in fact a true statement.

To be fair, negative energy is a way of life for The Trooper. Also, negative energy is pervasive throughout the poker world. I'd say after a few years grinding a very large percentage of cash grinders become some of the most miserable people you can meet. Once they are close to middle-aged they're insufferable.

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