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Originally Posted by Gzesh
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 ?
1. Recreational hobbies, sports, gaming etc are cool and we all do it. But what if I told you - your hobby would cost you 10-30% of your monthly income. Idk how many would.
2. Other than industry standard monetization through ad rev and sponsorships, if youre referring to shady practices like promoting clubs and private games, this shouldn't be in the discussion. Also self branding rarely works in poker. Just scroll through all the unknowns on instagram #poker and tiktok #poker where they give hand breakdowns.
3. If youre referring to passive income, you're better off spending 30 hours grinding poker and putting that money into an index fund than ever putting 30 hours into editting and hoping that YT content blows up. This is superior passive income that we can all agree on pragmatically.
I did light research on this topic and a lot of the cheaper editors at like $30/vid production, would maybe give you 50-100 cuts/edits per video. I once asked the guy for what I really wanted, and he said we were looking at $150-200++/video due to the demand of cuts I needed. How many people can justify $200/video hiring cost x [videos per month]?
You can't hire people to edit your vlogs for you, if you're struggling to get by. And most poker pros are. Unless youre Daniel Negranu or Dougie Polk. The reason people do vlogs is to dream to be outliers like Brad Owne and Rampage one day. But ultimately most are paying the price by wasting time in something that most likely will dead end in terms of generating income.