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My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (18 Viewers)

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Anthony Martino said:
He's got over 600k subscribers and is the gold standard of poker vlogging success everyone else is hoping to achieve

Although I have noticed in more recent vlogs he's got some mis-reg shining through when he comments on hands his opponrnts show up with
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I just watched another one of his vlogs.
He’s kind of a penis. Vegetable lasagna. I don’t get it.
 
upNdown said:
I just watched another one of his vlogs.
He’s kind of a penis. Vegetable lasagna. I don’t get it.
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Here’s one example of why Brad sucks. Here’s the video I watched. Start at 8:37
He goes out of his way to mock this big talker guy, Pat. Spoiler alert, Brad sucks out on Pat big time. So when Brad is putting this video together weeks later, that suck out isn’t enough for him? He has to post screenshots of his Twitter page, making fun of how few followers he has?

It’s just a really strange choice. Either Brad has the thinnest skin, and can’t handle some loudmouth bragging that he’s world famous, or else Brad thinks making fun of the guy like this is funny. Given that Brad often tries to be funny (but isn’t) maybe it’s just the latter.

But anyway, I don’t understand why this guy is the king of poker blogging. I would suggest that anybody with a little poker skill, a little personality, and a lot of hustle should start poker vlogging, because the bar seems pretty low.
 
upNdown said:
Here’s one example of why Brad sucks. Here’s the video I watched. Start at 8:37
He goes out of his way to mock this big talker guy, Pat. Spoiler alert, Brad sucks out on Pat big time. So when Brad is putting this video together weeks later, that suck out isn’t enough for him? He has to post screenshots of his Twitter page, making fun of how few followers he has?

It’s just a really strange choice. Either Brad has the thinnest skin, and can’t handle some loudmouth bragging that he’s world famous, or else Brad thinks making fun of the guy like this is funny. Given that Brad often tries to be funny (but isn’t) maybe it’s just the latter.

But anyway, I don’t understand why this guy is the king of poker blogging. I would suggest that anybody with a little poker skill, a little personality, and a lot of hustle should start poker vlogging, because the bar seems pretty low.
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If @CraigT78 for example, started a poker vlog, it would either be a massive hit or be taken down by YouTube after the first upload for violating TOS.

I found that vlog from Brad very strange too. I too think he was just trying to be funny, but it fell flat for me. For all we know the guy was needling Brad behind the scenes and he deserved it, but on the surface, it seems to be in poor form. I feel bad because the guy is very obviously still grieving his father. He should step away a bit before he gets a reputation for this. His misreg is starting to show through more and more the past few weeks.
 
I think if your willing to talk as much as it is implied he does, and calls himself World Famous on his Twitter, and in 3rd person it seems from the video, then kind of seems like you open yourself up to getting poked fun at. I guess in a spot where you knock him out, it's a little unnecessary. But other than that, I don't think it's a big deal.
 
I do feel like in some videos Brads mis-reg has shown through (where he voices obvious disdain when someone beats him with a bad hand and he calls them out on it) and it does seem like a lot of his attempts at humor feel like he's just phoning it in, trying to hard to make comedic references but not really having the passion for it or maybe just lacking on the delivery.

But, he's also been at it a LOT longer than I have, so I'm sure at some point you hit a level of fatigue. Despite his massive following and all the stuff he has going on now with the WPT, he still edits his own content (he's tried an editor in the past but found it didn't save him as much time as he was hoping).

I know given the short time I've been in the vlogging space, I experience fatigue trying to make sure I get content out each week, and I'm certainly no stranger to that inner grumble coming on when some drooler gets you for thousands of dollars.

Playing poker puts you around a wide cast of characters, some who still have sunshine left in their souls and can be a pleasure to play with, and others who are complete emotional vampires, doing their damndest to suck the joy from those around them and drag them down into a pit of despair.

I do my damndest to be the former, but it can be a real struggle.

I've had two separate misregs comment from the same playbook on separate occasions, telling me I'm a disgrace to my Captain America hat because I wouldn't straddle, saying Captain America is a "team player" or whatever other bullshit they could come up with to try and publicly shame me at the table because I'm trying to play the actual limits the game states at a stack depth that permits post-flop play, rather than letting it devolve into a 40/80 game that becomes preflop bingo with 1K stacks.

And in my head I flip-flop between just saying "when you guys pay my buyins you can decide how to play my stack" to just outright throat-punching them for being a drain on my happiness.

In addition, I had been part of a content creator discord group that Greg Goes All-In had put together. I was a big fan of his content and found him to be very creative.

In December he messaged me privately to kinda back off from posting as much as I was in the group, and I got it, I was kind of dominating the group and he felt maybe I was discouraging others from participating.

So I did back off quite a bit, it didn't really change the level of engagement from others though, which was pretty low overall imo.

But anyway, recently when I saw PLO Professor essentially double his subscriber count in the matter of a few days (essentially gaining double in three days what it took me a fucking year of posting daily to get) and I suspected he was buying fake subscribers to pump up the appearance of his channel, I messaged greg privately about the situation.

He used that as his excuse to boot me from the group, saying that buying subs wasn't against his servers rules and he felt that I was attacking another content creator out of the blue. He also said:

Additionally, despite my last message, you haven't seem to have gotten the hint - you continue to overpower the server with verbose and sometimes unsolicited or irrelevant text, diluting / discouraging engagement from creators with vastly more experience, influence, and following.
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Which I can't actually verify/dispute since I was booted from the server. But my recollection of my most recent involvement on the server was saying nice things about others content when they shared it, responding to Slow Pokers recent video post where he was the secret person people were trying to figure out to win a Platinum Pass by posting a Tommy Lee Jones from "the fugitive" clip about a hard target search and saying that was Ryan Depaulo looking for him (because Depaulo had done a video about getting involved in that manhunt) and then posting saying I was going to be doing commentary for my first time and I was looking for tips from others who've been in the booth. Aside from that, I hadn't been sharing my content or anything really.



I feel like he didn't like me from the jump, possibly because he's buddy-buddy with Dnegs and I made a couple of goof videos (Daniel Negreanue in the Pokerverse of Madness and then one about him committing hate crimes against Asians) so he was just looking for an excuse to boot me. And since he doesn't see anything wrong with another content provider buying up fake subscribers to make themselves appear like a legit content provider, he showed me his true colors and I stopped watching his content.
 
Anthony Martino said:
I do feel like in some videos Brads mis-reg has shown through (where he voices obvious disdain when someone beats him with a bad hand and he calls them out on it) and it does seem like a lot of his attempts at humor feel like he's just phoning it in, trying to hard to make comedic references but not really having the passion for it or maybe just lacking on the delivery.

But, he's also been at it a LOT longer than I have, so I'm sure at some point you hit a level of fatigue. Despite his massive following and all the stuff he has going on now with the WPT, he still edits his own content (he's tried an editor in the past but found it didn't save him as much time as he was hoping).

I know given the short time I've been in the vlogging space, I experience fatigue trying to make sure I get content out each week, and I'm certainly no stranger to that inner grumble coming on when some drooler gets you for thousands of dollars.

Playing poker puts you around a wide cast of characters, some who still have sunshine left in their souls and can be a pleasure to play with, and others who are complete emotional vampires, doing their damndest to suck the joy from those around them and drag them down into a pit of despair.

I do my damndest to be the former, but it can be a real struggle.

I've had two separate misregs comment from the same playbook on separate occasions, telling me I'm a disgrace to my Captain America hat because I wouldn't straddle, saying Captain America is a "team player" or whatever other bullshit they could come up with to try and publicly shame me at the table because I'm trying to play the actual limits the game states at a stack depth that permits post-flop play, rather than letting it devolve into a 40/80 game that becomes preflop bingo with 1K stacks.

And in my head I flip-flop between just saying "when you guys pay my buyins you can decide how to play my stack" to just outright throat-punching them for being a drain on my happiness.

In addition, I had been part of a content creator discord group that Greg Goes All-In had put together. I was a big fan of his content and found him to be very creative.

In December he messaged me privately to kinda back off from posting as much as I was in the group, and I got it, I was kind of dominating the group and he felt maybe I was discouraging others from participating.

So I did back off quite a bit, it didn't really change the level of engagement from others though, which was pretty low overall imo.

But anyway, recently when I saw PLO Professor essentially double his subscriber count in the matter of a few days (essentially gaining double in three days what it took me a fucking year of posting daily to get) and I suspected he was buying fake subscribers to pump up the appearance of his channel, I messaged greg privately about the situation.

He used that as his excuse to boot me from the group, saying that buying subs wasn't against his servers rules and he felt that I was attacking another content creator out of the blue. He also said:



Which I can't actually verify/dispute since I was booted from the server. But my recollection of my most recent involvement on the server was saying nice things about others content when they shared it, responding to Slow Pokers recent video post where he was the secret person people were trying to figure out to win a Platinum Pass by posting a Tommy Lee Jones from "the fugitive" clip about a hard target search and saying that was Ryan Depaulo looking for him (because Depaulo had done a video about getting involved in that manhunt) and then posting saying I was going to be doing commentary for my first time and I was looking for tips from others who've been in the booth. Aside from that, I hadn't been sharing my content or anything really.



I feel like he didn't like me from the jump, possibly because he's buddy-buddy with Dnegs and I made a couple of goof videos (Daniel Negreanue in the Pokerverse of Madness and then one about him committing hate crimes against Asians) so he was just looking for an excuse to boot me. And since he doesn't see anything wrong with another content provider buying up fake subscribers to make themselves appear like a legit content provider, he showed me his true colors and I stopped watching his content.
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Life really is just high school over and over again, isn't it?
 
Are they re-making Duck Tales or something? Because that's the only reason I can think of for anybody to purposely switch to a Duck Tales avatar.
 
Legend5555 said:
Life really is just high school over and over again, isn't it?
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Well, I never got the warm and fuzzies from Greg, which sucked because I was a really big fan of his content so it sucks that I guess I rubbed him the wrong way. But finding out he's ok with someone faking their subscriber account made it much easier for me to be ok with him not liking me.

Fortunately not everyone in the group gave me the cold shoulder and I did get to interact with some folks who were really cool and down-to-earth.
 
Well I like your content and GGAI's content went down hill after his girlfriend dumped his ass.

Oh, wait, too soon?
 
arch3r said:
Well I like your content and GGAI's content went down hill after his girlfriend dumped his ass.

Oh, wait, too soon?
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I knew they broke up but wasn't sure who initiated it or the reasoning behind the breakup.

I think since their breakup he's still put out some great content, there was one where him and his friends were playing and the lights go out and they wind up murdered or something that was really well done, pretty sure that was post-breakup.
 
Anthony Martino said:
I knew they broke up but wasn't sure who initiated it or the reasoning behind the breakup.
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I don't know who broke up with who either but I don't let a little thing like facts get in the way when I'm throwing shade. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

Anthony Martino said:
I think since their breakup he's still put out some great content, there was one where him and his friends were playing and the lights go out and they wind up murdered or something that was really well done, pretty sure that was post-breakup.
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I like his content too. But if you repeat that, I'll deny it. Like I said, facts, shade, see above.

Plus, only us PCF'ers can ban or block you. You're our asshole who talks too much and dominates the conversation. That mother fucker better know his place and who's he dealing with. Lol.
 
arch3r said:
I don't know who broke up with who either but I don't let a little thing like facts get in the way when I'm throwing shade. :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:



I like his content too. But if you repeat that, I'll deny it. Like I said, facts, shade, see above.

Plus, only us PCF'ers can ban or block you. You're our asshole who talks too much and dominates the conversation. That mother fucker better know his place and who's he dealing with. Lol.
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It's all good, I just needed to pitch a bitch cause it happened around the same time as I was dealing with the misregs giving me shit for not letting them turn the 1/2/5 into a 40/80 game.

Just irritating to put in close to a year of weekly content, hit 1600 subs and see PLO Professor fake twice that number of subs over the course of three days, and then have Greg be cool with it, really pissed me off.
 
Poker is a very hard way to make a living but I’m glad that you are off to a good start. If you take it as serious as the jobs you have had and are very conservative with your bankroll I think you can make it. Good Luck Sir
 
Shootinsean said:
Poker is a very hard way to make a living but I’m glad that you are off to a good start. If you take it as serious as the jobs you have had and are very conservative with your bankroll I think you can make it. Good Luck Sir
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Tyty!

I don't know if you saw, but I have a vlog now, my latest episode here

 

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