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Nothing sums diesel better than that linkedin quote, unintended comedy gold. I really wish i could sit down and ask him who he thought was better at him at various things. Everyone has said it before but the guy just doesnt live in reality, and its a coping mechanism for how poorly his life has turned out. If he realized oh wait, theres people who make 10x what i do from poker in the same poker rooms im in every day, he would have a hard time handling that i think. Like some poker players dont even drive 20 year old corollas, they have cars from the 2010s or even the 2020s believe it or not. Some even have houses and kids and retirement funds and spend vacations with their smart phones being wasteful idiots as they spend more than $15 on meals!!!

he once explained he flatted a raise with KK pre bc he was "super deep" when someone straddle. with the raise his effective stack size was something like 120bb.

I definitely agree with this. Something happened to him along the way to get him off what was a pretty good path he was on.

How in hell would you know that, in El Diesel's point of view, he was really on a pretty good path?

"Quality of Life" dominates "Standard of Living." Going into law would no doubt have resulted in better standard of living (higher income, nice house and car, etc.) for Coach El Diesel, but by utilizing inner wisdom and by making good judgement, he chose quality of life (contentment, being consistent with one's identity, etc.) over standard of living.

Knowing that he is a very detailed man, he must have known about the following reality about law...

Highly Stressed Lawyers 22 Times More Likely to Consider Suicide, Study Finds


Some excerpts:

"On aggregate, 8.5% of lawyers surveyed reported suicidal thoughts, compared to 4.2% of the U.S. population age 18 and over. Junior associates, young attorneys, and attorneys working more than 60 hours per week were particularly at risk, and suicidal ideation was more common among racial and ethnic minorities than among white attorneys. Bucking a broader societal trend, men in the legal profession were slightly more likely to experience suicidal ideation than women.

Previous research from Law.com Compass has found that more than 30% of lawyers experience depression, with many citing billable hour pressure, sleep deprivation, and client demands as contributing to their deteriorating mental health."

Another study:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...20of%20lawyers.

Coach El Diesel's suggestion that high school kids take up poker obviously came from a place of wisdom. He got laughed at for saying it. But the above link shows that he has dealt with high school kids in depth when he helped them with the SAT.

Below is the video of high school poker wisdom from Coach El Diesel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRaT...egasPokerNomad

There's a huge contingent of "gifted and talented" millennials that misinterpreted the boomer-trope about "get a drgree and the world is your oyster". I was a D-B student my entire academic career, never made honors, never really cared about "schoolwork", but knew how to apply myself, figure out problems, and work the ladder to a place of comfort career/living wise. Like half of my peers, many who grew up more privileged and with better grades are either severely underemployed or scavengering around life taking family handouts in their late 30s, scraping by because they refuse to apply themselves and do the basics in order to upskill their way to a career of importance/good pay.

They feel like due to their life experiences and superior intelligence, that every normal aspect of working a job is beneath them.

They see it as, "Why take orders from a 31 year old manager, who worked at a company for 10+ years and didn't even graduate college (despite their ability to operate the business with their eyes closed)." They feel like "time served" in academia equates to life success, and if they don't have that it's no fault of their own, it's society's fault, capatalizim, Biden, Trump, any marginalized group, "the white man", the list goes on and on.

It's never them. They'll never understand it. They refuse to accept it. I literally know millennials waiting on their parents to die (with zero shame), so they can hit the Life Insurance jackpot.

I believe in China they call this "lying flat".

Strongly agree with foatie.

Also, not to pop-psycho analyze Diesel too much but he seems to be a hyper-reactive person. Like he had to pay two rents one summer in law school and now he won’t sign any long term lease, he had to pay a lot for car repairs and then he says once his current car dies he won’t buy another car ever again. I’m pretty sure all of these challenges happen because he’s on a downswing and/or has spent what he considers is a lot of money. After that California trip with Herbs and Rye it seems Diesel lost a bunch and spent a bunch living it up (for him).

Wait wtf he drives all over the country but when this car goes that's his last car?

I mean granted it's a Toyota and he seems to be in horrible shape so it might outlive him but wow.

It would also surprise me alot if he isnt on the autism spectrum. Alot of poker players is btw.

His facial expressions, repetetive way of talking,mimics,body language+ give me that vibe.

The way he gets totally obsessed with minor meaningless details nobody else cares about, or meaningless challenges like eating one week on 14 bucks is also pretty clear signs.

"Meaningless" describes most of YouTube, including vlogs (and poker and watching sports)

Don't look for "meaning", YouTube content generally should be evaluated as free entertainment...... like reading or posting on NVG

Probably obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Accounting for meaningless amounts to the penny is not healthy.

Lol I forget the video but it’s the one on car repairs and yes he says he never wants to buy another car, I assume because he is going to retire on his dividend stock disbursements and stay at home all day doing whatever it is that he does other than poker, cooking, and arbitrary record keeping.

Is T bragging about making $1,500 in the year's first four months?

Perhaps there were other alternatives between practicing law on the one hand, and being a homeless nomad on the other?

Anyone else notice how "Go Gamble" and "No Gamble No Future" logos look similar? Whose came first?

I've hinted at this multiple times, but didn't want to make it seem like I'm demeaning the guy. He doesn't seem like the OCD type at all to me. It's fascinating behavior to watch TBH. Remembering the action of a $100 pot from 9 years ago along with the most uninteresting table banter that went along with it for someone who plays his volume is a skill I certainly don't have.

I like this type of content. Something about it feels like watching how a 1998, 13 year old runaway would live their life without supervision or bills. The flow between totally unhinged and sensible frugality keeps me hooked.

We might be early to the next Chris Chan phenomenon. Someone should archive the videos lest it all disappear one day. I don't watch the videos regularly, but I will be keeping tabs every few months out of morbid curiosity about how his life progresses from here. This is kind of a poor man's Truman Show.

Still on the fence about how self-aware he is. Is this partly scratching some humiliation fetish itch? Like why step on the scale and show the world how obese you are, then talk about the two pound turd you just dropped?

Yeah,agree that he dont strike me as a typical OCD type of guy.

Also just for the record i will make it clear that i dont try to be mean or something pointing out the autism spectrum thoughts. I am on the spectrum (mildly) myself actually,so i guess it takes one to spot one

A lot of people just happen to want to be nomads. They value lack of commitment and freedom, at least during certain phases of their lives. Some very rich (living in cruise ships or jumping from first class hotel to another connected by first class $10k flights). Some very poor (traveling with their backpacks and couch surfing, while paying free rent by working in communes or as camp guides). Lots in between (van dwellers living in used minivans to living in $200k Mercedes Winebagos).

Coach El Diesel lives in Vegas hotel rooms that many Europeans dream about staying in once their dreams of finally going to Vegas finally comes true. He is a minimalist and just because I'm not does not mean he is less than me.

I think most of this thread likes Diesel’s content and is not demeaning him, I know I’m not, I like all his content.

This thread and the comments on his videos are filled with people wishing him well and offering advice. Depending on his mood diesel responds with varying levels of nasty messages. It is just after the over a year of daily videos you see Diesel doesn’t change at all then you look at like logs on here from ECGgrinder or Mike Wolf/insanepoker7 or vloggers on YouTube and see them change for better and worse, going through the ups and downs of life. Even Pman has some change and I always think he’s gonna be found dead in the shower because he doesn’t know to close his mouth and look down.

Mike Wolf goes from a worse spot than diesel is at, to moving up in stakes, to getting addicted to opioids and then recovering to still beat big live games and he certainly had mental problems he had to deal with.

I am on the spectrum..the awesome spectrum. Also, kmart sucks.

Mike Wolf is cool, I hung with him a bit in Tampa during his early run. I had no idea about opioid addiction, but I haven't seen him in like 7 or 8 years.

The saddest of all poker vlogger stories was Mark Ari. The last 7 posts in the thread I've linked below reveals his tragic ending:

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/2...5/index10.html

He seems to be flatting KK all the time. He did that even in WSOP main.