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Diesel thinks he's doing amazing in life and that he's fine dining and eating healthy everyday and is in good shape.He also thinks his beard is nice.

He likely thinks walking in a parking garage is exercise.

I don't see him lying here, delusional maybe?

I've said plenty of negative things about Diesel. I'm just not a hater, just pretty neutral on him. This thread is just pure negativity so anything that's not pure hatred is seen as white knighting and defending him.

When has Diesel said that he had only made 1 or 2k at most from poker even in his best years?

I've only seen his poker income video from last year going over his 2022 income and he made around that and he said it was a low year for him because he withdrew his funds from his IRA and had to pay the penalty for that.

If there's one thing we know about Diesel is there's not many people that can reduce their expenses as much as him. So it's not crazy to think he can make 25-30k a year playing 40 hours a week and only spend 18k a year.

It's not a stretch that he saved up 7-10k a year for 10 years and him using DRIP to get to a 6 figure portfolio.

Whether or not he got a gift from his parents, which he probably did, it's pretty irrelevent when we're talking about the possibility of him amassing 6 figures from just playing low stakes poker. It's definitely possible for someone like Diesel.

Lol,not a stretch for him to be saving up 7-10K every year for the past 10 years. I mean come on dude, really. The guy gets a literal panick attack on camera when he goes off about losing 200 bucks in a game at MGM,he panick starves himself all the time to save a dollar or two,and this is a guy that has 100K+ liquid to his disposal? Lmao, its no wonder its easy to trick people in believing unreal stuff when you read what posters truly believe on this forum.

Lets be clear: IF this muppet has any savings/stocks portfolio or any other assets of any significant size its because his parents gifted him.

Assuming his hourly is around $13/hour.

$13/hour, 40 hours a week.

He probably only spends $1,500 a month for all his expenses.

To me the numbers check out.

If you've ever met cheap people you'll know the depths they go through to save a penny

You can hate them, criticize them, judge them, but one thing that they have is a huge amount of money in their bank account.

Have you seen the show extreme cheapskates?

They probably have mental illness truthfully but people's aversion to spending does not usually correlate to the amount in their bank account.

So you seeing rice pinching pennies and being bothered by losing as a sign he doesn't have alot saved up is a bad read imo.

Except he havent been close to playing 40 hours a week consistently for the past 10 years. He has several years where he have slacked on hours,and have long periods of time where he doesent play at all for example his 2 month "christmas holiday" living for free at his parents house. He also takes long breaks all the time, mainly because he cant handle playing if he is not winning having meltdowns if he loses one buyin.

Besides that- of course i have met cheap people that have money, the difference is just that Rice isnt cheap he is way beyond that choosing to live like a homeless bum in almost every way possible. The only thing remaining is to live on the streets or in free cabins in the woods because expences is getting too tight for him.

This is the same guy that has said multiple times that he makes more than he needs. He has no desire to play 2-5, get better at 1-3 or play more hours to make more money.

But he's gonna somehow have a six figure dividend portfolio?

Oh that old chestnut!

It's the whole "it's not a lie if he believes it" thing. That might make for good comedy in TV shows like Seinfeld, but in the real world it's still lying; even if he's lying to himself, first and foremost.

He’s only been playing “full time” for like the last 3 years, this being his 4th I believe, he was on and off playing and playing during school before that. He made the video he had 10k hours total not that long ago, I bet the most hours he could have would be like 12k hours of playing total.

Judging from the fact he had to pay for some stuff for him going to school and one of his full time years that account for like 1/6 of his total play he saved up 2k, I think it’s completely unrealistic that he saved up 100k ever from poker when even if you say he has 12k hours now, that means he only spent 30-40k total in those other 10 or so years of him playing poker, again most of those years he wasn’t playing a whole lot

He made a post saying his best year from poker was 22,700 I believe, this was before last year which he either said or has been speculated was not a very good year. If he spent 1500 a month that means his best year ever, and 1 of 3 or 4 total years of playing full time which account for a large part of his total hours played, he would’ve saved: 4,700. Also need to account for the fact he doesn’t play 12 months a year he takes a month or two off. The numbers don’t check out at all, unless he inherited money. He’s said from poker is his best hourly so I really find it hard to believe he was able to save any more from any of the jobs he’s had either

Based on things Diesel has said:

He doesn't look or care what the price fluctuations of the stocks are that he owns, only the dividend payouts, since he is never going to sell them.

Since he will never sell them, he doesn't really have access to that amount of money, because selling them would negate the dividend income.

He may or may not of said exactly that, I think something along those lines.

Exactly this, well put.

I know I pile on/clown Rice ITT lately, but while some of his defenders think the way he lives is endearing, I think it's an extremely sad case that this guy has nobody in his life to help him see the errors in the path that he's sliding down.

Your friends and family reserve the right to tell you when you're ****ing up, because they believe in you and want you to do better. The mania that set in his mind can probably be rooted back to having no one close to him that wants to see him do better.

The cope/defense mechanism that sets in is a Me against the world effect, where the hero thinks, "I must be superior to everyone else in the world, that's why people don't understand me and why I can't forge close bonds with people." And they never learn the truth about their ways until it's past the point of no return.

This is why he has a Trooper hero complex.

I mean we are all speculating if he has 6 figures or not based on him saying he got a 3k dividend payment last year.

If he wasn't playing poker he probably at one point had a regular job, and if he was living at home his expenses would be even less.

All I'm saying is he would need to save up an average of 8k a year for the past 10 years to have his hypothetical 6 figure portfolio which is not an impossible number.

I doubt he paid for his own schooling, but if he wasn't playing poker he probably at one point had a regular job and he likely saved 90% of what he was making if he was living with his parents.

In the end, we don't know for sure, everyone's speculating. It's just not that much of a stretch to me that he has saved up that much. For others the way he lives is proof he doesn't have that much saved up but for me it's proof that he's able to save up money more easily than others.

All of this. Prev, I know it’s hard to digest diesel videos but he puts all the info out there, just in a backwards way and you have to do the math yourself. He already said he played 1600 hours in 2023, and made between $5-11/hour.

Foatie, I tend to agree with you I don’t think he has a 100k plus in dividend stocks but I think he has some mid-five figure amount and it did not come from poker. If he doesn’t have any dividends, I can see him being so ghoulish that he is doing all this to live as cheaply as possible until his parents pass away. He would probably justify being a ghoul in the stupidest possible way too.

Diesel also doesn’t look at the market because I think he would jump off the Strat after seeing the prices of all those non-dividend stocks he supposedly sold because they were performing “too well” in 2021/2022.

The mid-range of 8-17k a year is the disability amount. Dude needs an intervention from someone who legit cares about him.

His Hamster Hero complex is equally dangerous. Seven billion people on the planet and you willingly choose to idolize THAT GUY?

This is the point thats least talked about.

“He is a winning player”. If you profit $12,000 playing 1-2/1-3 you are losing in life. Young women/men making $25,000 working full-time at Mcdonalds, CVS, Burger King, Publix, Smiths, Walmart, ..etc. Are kicking your ass and thats sad.

If you went to the weekly meetings at Ricardo's, you could hear Roy expound on his poker expertise.

That's more or less what Buffet has said. Stock price doesn't matter much as long as the company is doing well.

Was that the total dividends? Altria, aka Philip Morris, is paying 9.5% a year in dividends. I would think his portfolio pays at least 4%. But if he meant 3k was a single quarterly payment from a single stock, then he's got some money.

Most likely Diesel’s parents are almost weird as him and incredibly warped. They would rather cut fat checks than deal with his problems.

Under a new California law, fast food employees working at the Taco Bell in Baker, California or McDonald's in Needles, California will be earning $20 per hour in 2024 onward - more than nomad poker players.

Yes, but that don't have that sweet #pokerlife

Poker life is just a two hour drive away! Plus all the mcnuggets he can pocket. He could reheat them on his car dashboard, desert heat is free

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