Winning the warm-up when 16K people are watching over your shoulder, respect!
ROFL at all the micro stakes haters in this thread
FY <3

GG Lex

Won almost 30k yesterday. He is crushing in 2019

Where are all those haters?

One tournament win doesn't change anything. You need to judge results over a much larger sample size. And the facts are clear - when we view the larger sample size, he is a clear losing player.

Obviously he more than covers these losses with his twitch stream revenue + pokerstars sponsorship, so I'm sure he does well for himself overall. But the fact remains he does not beat the stakes he plays.

A person doesnt have to hate Lex to recognize that he is a losing player.
Im happy for him and hopefully his streams will continue to be fun for a longer time with the influx of cash.

Even with those 2 big scores im not sure that he is a favorite to end the
year in profit.

He plays a lot lower nowadays fwiw and i think he beats those stakes. Mostly under 100 bucks tournies and as long as he keeps it that way, i think he'll definitely end up in green.

^^ Indeed. His current daily buyins are about the same as what he used to spend on the BB High Roller alone.

Wasn't lex a while back primarily a cash game play? I recalled this a long time ago. Didn't he multitable like mostly 2/4 and 3/6 and some 5/10nl all the way back then? By this i meant like before BF.


Is there a reason he doesn't play cash games now? I assume he probably wouldn't be a winner at 200nl now and that is why he mostly plays mtt?


Also im curious but do most agree he is not a winning player? When i watch his youtube videos of him doing stream, he doesn't seem like he knows exactly what is the right play.

yeah, he was a cash game player pre-bf, made supernova elite. games passed him by and he switched to tournaments. he barely even beats low stakes tournaments. definitely -ev in the higher buy ins. as for cash, i'm guessing he wouldn't be able to beat even 100nl now.

this is what happens when you don't study and work on your game. the game has got much tougher over the years and most pros from 8-10 years ago weren't able to keep up.

No, he switched from NL to PLO long time ago. There never was a transition from NL cash to tournaments. Eventually he was a PLOz500 reg and did pretty good at that stake. Then he decided to start his Twitch stream and with that decision he also started playing tournaments because he thinks tournys are a better format to stream than cash.

Has nothing to do with "the game passing him by".

When he first started to stream he mentioned that stars asked him to stream low stakes mtts.

Your close to being correct.

He actually talked about this very subject on stream today and the reason he Streams MTT's and not cash is - Quote: "Because that's what the majority of my viewers wan't to see. If the majority wanted to see me stream cash games, I would play and stream cash games".

Was on his stream the other day, whole table had the «*good reg*» tag on, i was the only one with the «*fun player*» tag

hahaha cant believe this thread is full of beginners crying too just like in the jaime thread.

guys/girls at some point in the run of life you gotta realize only reason the other people are seen to be behind you is because they are winning you by a full round. this probably wont make sense to many of you since you aint that bright get a life

Really ?

Seems reasonable enough to me to state that he doesn't do well at the highest stakes, that he's mostly a preflop player, that he hides his results to maintain his cred' to get viewers and people buying parts of him (which is morally dubious btw). He's obviously not busto though, PS money and stream money is good money. Let's just not pretend he's a MTT beast is all.

If you disagree with that you can feel free to enlighten us.

You seem to have real difficulties when it comes to make your point. "lol u cryin", "u ain't bright ", "get a life" and bad 2010 memes aren't making you come off that well. It's not helping your point either.

Yes, Lex used to be a good CG player. Once uppon a time. Not sure how new you are, but the games got so much harder over the last decade. And "CG back then" has nothing to do with the fact that these days he pretty much refuses to take the play postflop when playing MTTs (even deepstacked). That doesn't change the fact that he's hiding his results either.

I stand by what I said: he's not making a living playing poker, he's making a (probably good) living rep'ing PS and streaming. To achieve that, he needs to pretend he does a lot better than he really does, though.

Not sure why you're so emotionally invested when it comes to Lex. He's not exactly the first person making a buck streaming and pretending he's something he's not really. But it's only fair for me to be real about it.

i dont care about lex, i come by these forums few times a year to see whats happening and just gotta say to you:
there are people in life how try to work themselves to go higher and then there are people that try to push others lower so that they would feel to be higher. guess which one are you and which one is lex

Wow, you're dense. I wouldn't even know where to start so I'll leave it at that.

Doesn't care about Lex.
Reads a thread with 363 posts about Lex.
Yeah the ignore feature is very very nice feature here.

Ouch

https://www.pokerstars.com/en/blog/2...p-179566.shtml

The next step: Announcing the Lex Live Spring Festival in Namur, March 27-31
Martin Harris | @hardboiledpoker | 6 days ago In News
Those who get their start playing poker online often talk about the transition to playing live. It's kind of a natural step to take, with the online game often serving as a great introduction before jumping into the live arena.

Those who are part of the growing community enjoying Lex Veldhuis' Twitch channel are about to get a similar opportunity. After watching Lex online for the last few years, they'll soon be able to take part in a new live tournament series hosted by Veldhuis, the appropriately-named Lex Live Spring Festival at the Grand Casino de Namur in Belgium from March 27-31.

Read more at the link.

Schedule:

https://cmsassets.rationalcdn.com/bl...veschedule.jpg

The best line this Sunday stream was" wow i might be actually having a losing month this month with those big wins!"

Another funny quote"i hate when people say im tilting when im not!!!"(always said while he is 3bet jamming 40 big blinds over and over)Also re entering tourneys max times and with like 8 big blinds too at that.

So pathetic and sad to hear people say they learn from him, learn what? he is a degenerate and a gambler, he cant play postflop to save his life, and enters at late blind stages over and over. He doesnt recognise where his skill level is, he plays tired and tilted. Hes the worst poker role model you can have LOL

You should take that as a compliment, for real