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This and also its obvious he had a winning week/challenge when he finally chooses to give us fresh results and not the usual blabbering about how he was sunrunning at Council Bluffs 8 years ago.

Exactly. If he lost he would be telling us how much he spent on laundry and funny things said at the table that he naturally understood before anyone else .

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05-12-2024 , 01:49 PM

#78427

Gzesh

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Originally Posted by DividedWeFall

I wish every young 1-2/1-3 player that moves to Vegas to make a living off poker would watch his videos. Im tired of watching these players invest so much time in something thats not doable. To go to these extremes to avoid “the man” and make $6/hour or worse is sad.

It should be educational to your target audience to watch these videos; if they still also need a practical education as well, so what ?

They are "young", no better time to learn life lessons.

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05-12-2024 , 03:45 PM

#78428

TheAdvantagePlayer

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Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 518

A young person who plays professionally for any limit of time, especially moving to another place like Vegas to make it -

will most likely end up significantly worse place in life than not pursuing the matter all together.

Think about it. Low % of actual success, high % of just being stuck as a degen, and % of going busto quickly enough to get back onto the job market be4 it's too late.

I know a few people, mid 30s, busto playing 2-5. Back on job market entry level I assume.

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05-12-2024 , 04:00 PM

#78429

iwasbanned

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Join Date: Jul 2021 Posts: 4,090

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Originally Posted by parisron

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Originally Posted by FL Pkrdlr

He actually had a sold week which isn’t shocking because he ventured away from the Horseshoe and Westgate. All of his profit from playing came from Bellagio and Red Rock, even though those sessions were only 25% of his hours for the week. He finished +$854 at those 2 rooms and -$168 at the promo rooms.

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Originally Posted by Petrucci

This and also its obvious he had a winning week/challenge when he finally chooses to give us fresh results.

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Originally Posted by borg23

Exactly. If he lost he would be telling us how much he spent on laundry and funny things said at the table that he naturally understood before anyone else .

Rice will ignore his good results at Bellagio and Red Rock, and continue to chase the 'promo' money at Horseshoe and MGM.

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05-12-2024 , 04:37 PM

#78430

FL Pkrdlr

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Join Date: May 2013 Posts: 1,422

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Originally Posted by iwasbanned

Rice will ignore his good results at Bellagio and Red Rock, and continue to chase the 'promo' money at Horseshoe and MGM.

Yep he had a robust $4.61 hourly (after rakeback/freeroll) at the promo rooms playing extremely low variance poker. That’s his bread and butter. Why risk an entire buy in at the Bellagio, Wynn or Red Rock?

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05-12-2024 , 06:21 PM

#78431

Mother Mucker

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Join Date: Jan 2005 Posts: 1,747

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Originally Posted by TheAdvantagePlayer

Assuming someone is a profitable player, poker is best as a second job. Put in your 40 hours at your 9-5 and get your benefits and all the security that comes with a “normal job”. You can then put in your 5 to 25 hours or whatever each week outside these 40 hours. People focus on not having a boss as a main perk for playing poker but it’s stressful knowing you have to win in order to pay the rent and buy food.

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05-12-2024 , 08:01 PM

#78432

journeyman

Join Date: Oct 2023 Posts: 284

Playing poker as a living is one of the worst jobs in the world.

Just look at the ones that actually make money, I would say 98% look like Deisel.

The ones that appear successful, maybe 2% of players are actually successful, the rest are trust fund kids that cosplay as a professional poker player but are break even to losing players living off their parents money.

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05-12-2024 , 10:59 PM

#78433

LuvDaVlogs

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Join Date: Feb 2020 Posts: 1,396

People who are actually winning gamblers very rarely do things like make vlogs

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05-12-2024 , 11:11 PM

#78434

Langdon

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Join Date: Jun 2019 Posts: 1,083

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Originally Posted by LuvDaVlogs

People who are actually winning gamblers very rarely do things like make vlogs

Mariano is doing pretty well

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05-12-2024 , 11:33 PM

#78435

rickroll

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Join Date: Aug 2011 Posts: 23,026

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Originally Posted by LuvDaVlogs

People who are actually winning gamblers very rarely do things like make vlogs

2p2's gazzyb is a long term winner (i think nl500 but could be higher) who also play 5/10-10/20 live who recently started vlogging - he has really good stuff

https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/1.../index195.html

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05-13-2024 , 12:24 AM

#78436

Turdzilla

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Originally Posted by Gzesh

It should be educational to your target audience to watch these videos; if they still also need a practical education as well, so what ?

They are "young", no better time to learn life lessons.

How young/old is Tropper?

Does he qualify for the Seniors event this year?

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05-13-2024 , 12:29 AM

#78437

Turdzilla

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Originally Posted by LuvDaVlogs

People who are actually winning gamblers very rarely do things like make vlogs

The 10 to 30 hours a week producing vlogs could be spent playing or working for the Man.

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05-13-2024 , 12:30 AM

#78438

Turdzilla

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Join Date: Sep 2011 Posts: 3,672

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Originally Posted by Langdon

Mariano is doing pretty well

1 in a hundred.

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05-13-2024 , 01:16 AM

#78439

parisron

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Originally Posted by Turdzilla

How young/old is Tropper?

Does he qualify for the Seniors event this year?

You only have to be 50, he passed that years ago.

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05-13-2024 , 02:39 AM

#78440

TheAdvantagePlayer

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Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 518

It's a hard justification to start a poker vlog if you're winning player. Opportunity cost won't allow you to do it.

Imagine spending 4 hrs for $20 in yt ad rev.

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05-13-2024 , 03:33 AM

#78441

angle_shooter

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Join Date: Jul 2017 Posts: 752

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Originally Posted by TheAdvantagePlayer

It's a hard justification to start a poker vlog if you're winning player. Opportunity cost won't allow you to do it.

Imagine spending 4 hrs for $20 in yt ad rev.

Someone forgot to tell Rice.

It only took him 6 months to get his channel monetized and then another 6 short months later he was celebrating clawing back the money he outlaid for his vlogging camera.

It should come as no surprise. After all we are talking about someone who retains a hot dog receipt in mint condition for 5 years. He could be Allen Kessler's love child, they have a very similar playing style. In fact Rice might be even more of a nit than Allen.

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05-13-2024 , 05:12 AM

#78442

18000rpm

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Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,411

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Originally Posted by angle_shooter

It's hilarious these types at the Westgate. You have the Trooper, although only on Thursdays. But then you have Rice, Pman and also TBC. Would love to see them all at the same table. Rice deliberately avoided Trooper's game this last Thursday due to wanting to bum hunt the pool tournament players.

Westgate hosts the poker world's version of the Wack Pack.

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05-13-2024 , 05:16 AM

#78443

18000rpm

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Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,411

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Originally Posted by parisron

Pays 36 spots, everyone $200. That is why he was pissed because there was 36 and it would have been over with $200 paid out, but the late guy barely made it in time to make it 37 and they had to do hand for hand until 36.

Can you imagine what that "game" is like? You have 37 Diesel-esque players all folding every single hand waiting for 1 guy to bust. Probably need an AA vs KK cooler to lose a player. Might take a few levels for 1 person to bust LOL.

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05-13-2024 , 05:33 AM

#78444

Petrucci

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Alright, so what do we think will become the vlogger highlights this summer? I hope Ashley Sleeth will be vlogging again during the series, think her content is a breath of fresh air in the space but she havent been releasing a new video in more than 8 months or so.

Also i guess we can have a possible carcrash waiting to happen when Diesel eventually cant handle being told he is not correct by his boss ,or blowing up after getting heat from grumpy players.

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05-13-2024 , 09:55 AM

#78445

angle_shooter

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Rice was so proud of himself in his latest video for sneaking in a pocket sandwich and pocket condiments into a movie at Red Rock. Like he says; no one is better than him at sneaking in food, this isn't the Minor Leagues!

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05-13-2024 , 10:33 AM

#78446

IQofTwoPlusTwo

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Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 636

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Originally Posted by angle_shooter

Rice snuck in a sandwich and his pocket mayo into a theater where they don't care if you bring in food. Could you imagine a whale buying a sub at the Red Rock food court and then getting static for walking into the theater with it?

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05-13-2024 , 11:34 AM

#78447

borg23

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Originally Posted by angle_shooter

Whoa whoa whoa back it up- how did he get the movie ticket in the first place?

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05-13-2024 , 01:58 PM

#78448

AceJacko

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Join Date: Apr 2019 Posts: 147

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Originally Posted by prev

I don’t know anyone at 5/T+ who looks like Diesel. I don’t know anything about you, but this seems like the prospective of someone whose view of poker is warped by low stakes NL and live streams. Normal people aren’t trying to play 1/3 for a living. The reasonable people either move up in stakes or wouldn’t try to play poker for a living in the first place. Live stream players are almost by definition going to be characters.

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05-13-2024 , 02:06 PM

#78449

Gzesh

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Originally Posted by TheAdvantagePlayer

It's a hard justification to start a poker vlog if you're winning player. Opportunity cost won't allow you to do it.

Imagine spending 4 hrs for $20 in yt ad rev.

1. Maybe some people enjoy vlogging
2. Maybe there are marketing reasons, beside direct YT revenue to produce a vlog ?
3. Setting up and posting to a vlog helps produce income without active participation by the poker crusher whose "opportunity cost" you seem narrowly focused on.

You think winning poker players cannot be bothered or cannot hire help to produce revenue ancillary to their poker winnings ?