He gets too sticky sometimes. I get it that’s my leak too but he readily admits it.

Does Negreanu count as a poker blogger? He has to right? But really never plays cash any more AFAIK let alone on camera.

Still, he'd be a reasonable grudging choice. I'd think he has to be a winner at 10/20+ which can't be said of a lot of these folks.

Yeah, but I don't think he does enough cash game play and hand analysis vlogs to be useful enough to recommend. Neeme is certainly good suggestion.

Some others that play well IMO:

Ben Deach
Lex O Poker
Jaman
Mariano

I agree with this list. It's amazing how good Mariano has gotten in a short time. I hope Rampage don't rub off on him too much. Lol

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Ben deach often does things highly dependent on the people in his game, who he all knows. So a lot of his play isn't good against more common players.

Jaman is good but he often deviates and plays too loose often.

I agree that Mariano is pretty impressive.

I haven't been following him with any regularity, but I went back and watched him at 5/10/20/(40) at TCH, and while I realize I'm seeing selected hands and face up and everyone's a genius face up, I didn't come away thinking he was that great. The split pot hand with AK, the three pair bluff (where villain read him like a book), and the final going broke flush hand are ones I would tag as bad. There were a couple places where he correctly gave up which puts him ahead of some of the competition.

He doesn't seem to integrate information from his opponent's post flop actions well based on that session at least. I also didn't see him make a single useful read/adjustment, when some of his opponents were wack if the stats were correct.

I might change my mind if someone could show me a good sequence of him playing solid poker through 5+ hands in a row of losing cards. I wouldn't be surprised if he wins solidly at 2/5 or maybe 5/10 (I really don't follow the guy).

I kind of like Jonathan Little but he's not really a vlogger, he's selling training.

Little did an analysis of one of his vlogs and agrees.

You know the old adage, if the worst player at the table likes my play...it's probably a losing play.

Before we get into who we think is good...how many of you actually beat this game?

I used to occasionally watch Ben Deach's vlogs, but I stopped after watching this hand (9:27 into the vid if the link doesn't correctly seek to the specific timestamp) in which he coldcalls a bet and raise on the flop otb with an oesfd and then folds to a jam:

https://youtu.be/Qbd7hM8nAaE?t=567

We're what, 15 years into playing this game all the time and there are people playing 5/10 who don't have the first idea what sort of equity their hand might have in what situation, or how to make a pot odds decision.

It is frankly amazing, but it explains why the games are so easy.

Did you not listen to wait he said? He explained in detail why he decided to fold in that particular situation in that particular game, but that normally that would have been an easy call because of his pot odds.

The economy explains why the games are so good. Poker is not recession-proof.

Crabs is recession proof!


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The guy lives in a fantasy world in his own mind where he is a poker pro and a Casey Neistat vlogger who rules YouTube when in reality it is exactly as you mentioned above.

I jumped back on the vlogs for the 100 vlog and the 2 since then to see if anything has changed but it's the same crap. His idea of playing poker on the strip everyday being the constant of the vlog is pretty lame now. He doesn't show any hands, just shots of random whole cards as if to show people that he's actually playing poker but I don't think anyone really cares anymore.

The storyline video mimicing some sort of Breaking Bad/drug movie thing was okay but it didn't get any extra views. He's gone on and on in the last 2 videos complaining about how long it took to edit that one video because it was an actual video and not his generic same formula day in and day out video. I really goes to show how lazy he is in that after 1 day of working 5 or 6 hours to edit a video he can't stop complaining about how much time it took. Unless he's just angling for his viewers to send him money because he actually had to work for that one video.

He keeps saying 'I'm not complaining' right before and after all of his complaints because he realizes that his videos are now just him whining for 15 minutes a day. He seems exhausted and needs a break. The energy to hit 100 has been completely wiped out by the dissapointment of the lack of fanfare and excitement of him hitting 100. I think his fantasy is finally starting to crumble and he's beginning to realize that how 'accomplishments' don't really mean anything to anyone else.

About retirement and getting old, he's got some inheritance money already and will be getting more from his mom down the road. It seems like he's banking on that and is just trying to make it to that point which is pretty sad. He doesnt really spend money so he'll be okay if he doesn't do anything stupid like start playing above 1/3nl.

He's the equivalent of a guy working a minimum wage job with a hobby that he enjoys. It just so happens that he keeps a video diary for 10,000 people to see.

His play is simply wrong. It's a call AINEC. If villain shows you a set AND 3rd wheel shows you he folded two spades, it's still a call (but closer). Assuming his stated sizes are exact, the pot is 1605, and it's 850 to call. He needs to win 35% of the time to break even. In the set/two dead outs case he wins 38%. The very worst you can be is about 33% if villain has AsKs. Most frequently villain will have a non-spade AK in which case you're over 50% to win and +EV hundreds of dollars.

You NEVER fold there.

Again reinforcing my point that not only bloggers but perhaps 2+2 posters don't understand basic equity and pot odds decisions, and this is why the games are so ridiculously easy.

The games were good in 2009 too...

Poker vlogs have the interesting feature that not only do you get to see other people play hands with hole cards, but you get to hear their explanations. It really explains a lot. For example, while I felt the Neeme video I looked at was weak in the context of trying to beat 10/20 the things he got wrong were a bit more sophisticated. This Ben Deach video is the only thing I've ever seen of him, but it clearly shows he doesn't grasp some pretty basic concepts.

That's more or less the difference between 5/10 and 10/20.

The word formulaic comes to mind.

Of Trooper's last ~100 or so Vlogs, only 3 of them exceeded 20,000 viewers, with the vast majority of them in the 10,000 viewer range.

Try paying attention to what you read. I didn't say whether it was right or wrong; hell, even he said it was the wrong decision. I was responding specifically to your statement that he didn't "...have the first idea what sort of equity (his) hand might have in what situation, or how to make a pot odds decision." In the video he specifically addressed his equity and the pot odds. So once again, your statement is categorically false on its face.

No, the point that got reinforced is that you have a problem with reading comprehension.

But he failed to do so CORRECTLY. There is no second place trophy for using the magic words "equity" and "pot odds". You have to correctly calculate your equity and the pot odds and make the correct decision. Which he was incapable of doing.

But keep right on defending him. He, and you, are welcome at the table any time!

It should also be noted that was the perfect place to get info and tank. Since all villains are all-in or folded, he had the opportunity to think as slow as he needed to. He should have:
- asked for a count of villain's all-in if there was any confusion (it appears there was)
- figured out his pot odds (close enough to 2:1 for this purpose) - actually 1605:850
- Then figure out his worst case scenario (AsKs with or without dead cards) and outs in that scenario (8 outs with some back door and draw back that probably more or less cancels).
- The apply the 2% rule - 2% * 8 outs * 2 streets = 32% chance of winning (actual chance in the worst case is 33% - good enough)
- Realize that he's break even to within 20 bucks in the worst case, and +EV in all other cases.
- Lackadaisically push his cash in the pot knowing with certainty he's got the best of it

If that takes 5 minutes, so be it. He gave up $200+ in equity by not doing it. $200 for 5 minutes work is pretty good wages.

Note that the dead cards he got so excited about have almost no effect on equity - about 1% depending on which spades you pick against a reasonable AK/set/KsXs range for villain and almost none in the worst case AsKs situation. So he got all huffy about something that didn't matter a damn bit.

Now, what I just described is one of the first things I would expect of any 1/2 NL student. Anyone who could not do that reliably (in the last to act/all in case at least) simply isn't poker material. This is not the hard stuff. This is the basics - we're on chapter 5 of TOP here.

This guy isn't some paragon of poker play. He's a joke.

Splawn, I suggest you go back and watch the vlog again...

Oh, I read just fine. DC2LV is just butthurt that both he and the video's hero were outed as jokes

So you watched one video of his, and determine his whole playing ability on just this hand, of which geez dying horse man. We get it, you're the best.

We got the gist man.