Las Vegas Poker Player Vlogs

I saw today's title and didn't want to click watch and waste 15 minutes. Yet I did. I couldn't help myself.

Looked like he was cooking dog food.

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common theme with all these people who refuse to work for the man and want to be their own boss (TB. ELD, Pboy, BK, maybe Trooper too): they aren't disciplined to be their own boss and be productive. they don't put much effort into being better or making a real profit in their chosen "career"

Right. They wanna do just enough to get by day by day or week by week. Maybe have a little stowed away but not enough for a future.

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Here is what Grok had to say:

You are giving them way too much credit.
I suspect they think they discovered a secret to financial success and assume they will don't need to even work, or at least "well, it has only been 5 hours but I'm tired, I'll just work extra tomorrow", and then they work 3.5 hours the next day with the same pathetic rationalization that they can always make it up.
and then they aren't even making enough to get by and resort to begging for freebies, making slurries in their hotel room, asking for stakes, or running home to mom and dad

I remember ELD made a video once which said anyone can make $20,000 a year with poker with enough hours but it can only be sustained if one reduces expenses under $20,000 per year.

I think ELD has a sweet spot now with the summer dealing job wherein he can make up to $37,000 per year and still get the free New York health insurance.

it seems like a common theme is misplaced pride and ego, I think them calling themselves their own boss and being broke is better than them having a regular low wage job somewhere and having to admit to themselves and the world that they're not special.

Some days I feel jealous of their "freedom" because it reminds me when i was younger and had little to no responsibilities. But being a loser stops being cute the moment you're not in your early 20s and that's no way to live.

I thought pman was in his early 20s and just a young kid figuring out life but when I was realized he was nearly 30 I realized he's just a giant manchild loser that mooches off his dad and can't see him in the same light anymore.

It's actually funny that TBC is the only one that actually plays and profits from poker (outside of Diesel who makes $10/hour) and he's the most unadjusted one out of all of them. They should all ask TBC for tips on how to play. They won't though since they all think they're profitable players despite their results, bankroll and life says otherwise.

Think Blue reports that Mcdonald's is now selling the McRib again which is Think Blue's favorite food.

Urban Nomad in Long Beach reports getting a free lunch and laptop from a subscriber and that he will be selling his Camry home and moving to Cambodia for $5 Cambodian rooms in order to not be homeless anymore:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t07_DJvLDhU

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3 Years of Car Living, I Can’t Take it Anymore! Selling Camry Camper for One Way Ticket Out of USA!

When and if he returns to the USA he will purchase a $2,000 minivan.

And finally, Jacob in Vegas reports on the Wyndham Caesars Diamond apocolypse and the strip has now had three consecutive months of decreased gambling revenue compared to the same months in 2023. And that a man is reported to have been walking around the Venetian with saggy pants and that Venetian security attacked him and he was in a coma and lost teeth.

This is a pure bullseye.

These guys are obviously not even getting by when they have to use every trick in the book to even survive-everything from starve themself to mooching of their parents to making sardineslurry for dinner.

Rice Diesel hasn't made $20K playing poker any year since 2021.

For a massive out of this world nit as Rice, he would have to go on such an absurd heater in order to win 20K+ in a year from playing poker.

Either that or he have to play an absurd amount of hours, like 2500-3000 hours a year basically living at the tables folding waiting for the nutz around the clock 7 days a week.

Hey all:

Here is something about El Diesel that I don't think anybody else has brought up (maybe I'm wrong?).

If he is such a professional & doing so well, why not have him be an example to incoming Freshmen at Cornell & 1st year law students?

He can do a 10 minute video showing his day, his results, his strategy, and his future plans. He can discuss how his education helped him achieve his position in life! That can be shown to potential students on the school's interweb sites & possibly also shown at orientation.

Does even Diesel think his skool would do such a thing?

If they did, it would be a WARNING video to their potential students.

To be fair to El Diesel, he is NOT the only vlogger out there like this. Though, perhaps he is the only one with the education that he has?

Thoughts?

ELD and Cornell can start a Nomad Intership program. All Nomad Interns will be sleeping at the Cornell parking garage to save on student housing costs and will have a special class that teaches how to earn tier points and get waived resort fees. Field trips to Atlantic City to tier match to Hard Rock Icon and then field trips to Las Vegas for 150 hours of folding. They can pack four students per room with double queen beds to reduce room costs as well. And one weekend trip with no room to San Fransisco for pocket bread on Spirit.

The end of semester term paper will be essays on Where Where You on the Day of the Red Rock Massacre and What are Solutions to the Diamond Plus Drink Crisis?

This convo got me thinking about fictional dbag Cornellians

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My IRL Cornell dbag:non dbag is like 2:35 but man it seems like fictional shorthand for *******

I do my very best to not look at them at all.

For all his jibber-jabber about how much time he puts in, I don't think he even puts in the same number of hours as an ordinary 40 hour a week worker drone.

Agree with everything here except for the part about Rice making $10 an hour from poker. That might have been what he was averaging in 2021 but he's thankful just to break even now. Whatever he does make is purely from the value he extracts from status/comps/promos.

The funny thing about these kind of people is they still manage to fool themselves into thinking they are above everyone else who is in traditional employment earning 5x what they do.

Rice's logic is if he makes 20k in a year and manages to save 1k by living like a hobo then he is ahead of someone making 200k and living it up but only saving $500 in that same year. The fact that the person earning 200k could save more in a single week if he wanted than Rice saves in a year is ignored entirely.

I think Trooper was very hard working and put in a lot of effort, it was just that he was like a hamster in a wheel running as fast as possible and getting nowhere.

Normal human - gets up early, grabs a cup of coffee, hits the street running.

Hard Working Trooper - gets up early, crams in his two hours of youtube viewing, makes a cup of coffee using his complicated 23 step mixing and brewing process, struggles to put on his shoes without using his hands and opening the door with his shirt sleeves so he doesn't touch the door knob OCD nonsense, then finally hitting the strip he immediately starts wandering around wondering what fast food he should eat..... whew! I'm already exhausted and he hasn't done anything but walked out the house.

No one works harder for minimum wage than the Troopers are doing right now in their tireless pursuit of Candy greatness.

I actually find myself rooting for them ever so slightly because at least they are producing something tangible now even if it's just sugary crap. As opposed to what Tim was doing before which was just thinking he would get rich off Poker/YouTube fame alone.

it's quite likely a negative wage if you count their rent and kitchen equipment purchase/lease

He also acts like those are the only two options. Either you make a lot and blow it all or you make dirt and are a financial whiz like he thinks he is. Can't make 200k and save 50k or whatever. Also ignores the actual utility of spending some money.

Nothing wrong with working for yourself be it poker or some other endeavor. But if a decade into it you're making poverty wages you're doing it wrong.

He talks into riddles about his poker winnings from the last couple of years bc even he is embarrassed by them. If they were as "good" as he wanted he wouldn't have been dealing.

I doubt they make as much as min wage.

Sadly this is probably true.

A Van Nomad reports that Circus Circus is the only strip lot that allows free boondocking and vehicle dwelling:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9GXJU_rQSU

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What our Van Life family’s day in Las Vegas looks like

Yeah its convenient for him to only consider the extreme scenarios. He does this with several things, using very flawed logic to try and convince himself and others that his choices are paying off.

True, it's hilarious watching! The fact that he refuses to divulge his hourly from 2023 onwards says everything. When people try insulting him in the comments by saying he makes barely minimum wage from poker he says he takes it as a compliment LOL

It seems they are expecting Enchant to be a real coup for the business. Then after that will be the surge in Xmas orders. Will be interesting to see how they are doing after that dies down.