Las Vegas Poker Player Vlogs

UPS recently laid off a bunch of people. He'd have to look somewhere else.

Implied volatility was 99% this week on PLTR because of the earnings release. Afterward I wished I hadn't written the calls.

I thought his game was better suited for 2/5 but he probably wasn't rolled for it.

I think he did operation uptick because his relationship with Molly was in trouble and he was desperately trying to save it. It would explain why he had extra motivation all of a sudden. Then she left him and he leaves town for weeks shortly after playing 5-10.

He did have some interest in playing 2-5 though and mentioned even doing it as a pro in the past before he came to Vegas.

And of course if you could make more doing it why wouldn’t you play 5-10?

Operation Uptick:

https://youtu.be/DKPGowFIT1Y?si=TLtsPDPN...

Does Prev post on here more than once a week? It seems like he walks a wavering line between defending the Rice TroopÂ’s actions and very mild criticism of Rice.

ItÂ’s whatever, but the use of infidels and the overall tone of this post show an unbalanced mind in my opinion with the classic us against the world mentality.

Overall, I need to thank a lot of people in this thread for pointing out the absurdity of the hamster wheel existence. I see that it is comforting to a person and seems like something is getting done but a person is really going nowhere.

I truly do mean what I say in that last bit, some of the discussion and criticism on here has made me re-examine my life and IÂ’ve found it lacking.

I can relate to what Rice and Myrna do with the living in hotels and having to maintain a daily nut to stay in action and IÂ’ve thankfully been out of that game for two years now. I empathize with Rice because it is a tough life to shake once started, and trying to recapture the magic of some of those first few sessions is a tough task.

Overall, Tim is a lost cause but I do hope Rice gets some help and eventually wakes up that he is wasting the vast majority of the prime of his life, and that he actually spends time shot taking at higher limits where he can play less hours and make more money.

*Fingers crossed for Rice eventually waking up or some good friends waking him upÂ…

in my case , i got kicked out of college and my internship at 19 because of immigration paperwork , i also got offered a job by a sports book manager when i was 22 but couldnt take it for same reason(kinda ironic that at 47 i still cant be a casino card dealer because I can't get a sheriff's card(casino card) for 6 more months.

I had a chance to go back to school at 30 (or take a casino job) but by that time my roll was in the low 6 figures so i felt no need to do either.

but yeah , living on a short roll sucks and applying for jobs now is tough as well as i have a pretty empty resume other than just gambling for profit for 27+ years now.

So yeah , not excusing all my **** ups and my low roll but I have had fun and am now sorta paying for being too reckless and hedonistic.

My problem with Rice is that yes , he has all this freedom of time, and honestly too much of it is also not good, but I dont feel like he enjoys it , but then again , maybe he does in his mind.

IÂ’m not sure he enjoys it either, I think itÂ’s something else altogether. IÂ’ve heard other posters like two years back say it might even be a gambling addiction for Rice and I wonder sometimes about that, or if itÂ’s OCD or a spectrum based thing which leads to obsession.

I know that I suffer from some of that and without being aware of what I am doing I get swept away at times. At a minimum he is not taking advantage of time he has, not playing up to potential and does not have a formulated plan to make the most money possible.

ItÂ’s like him and Tim and are just hobbyists and doing the poker thing for lols and do not view it as a serious way to make money. Or, they derive hedonistic pleasure from it even on a base level and pursue it for that thrill. I do not know and I am at a loss at times thinking on it.

All I know is some of your contributions, Foatie’s and many others have made me take a long look at the mirror and realize some of my past missteps and realize why I was pursuing a “dream” before that I had no real plan to eventually come close to achieving it.

When I played, I had edge within reason but I degenned a lot of winnings in the pit, and eventually I even tried to pivot to slots and was too under rolled to take realistic shots at that to start. ItÂ’s a rough game but thereÂ’s definitely money in there for those that are more disciplined. Sadly, that is not any of the big three discussed here for the past year, Pman, Trooper, and Rice.

I even wonder if this is some kind of identity issue with the three of them right now and they associate themselves with being these professional gamblers and they just canÂ’t stop the pursuit of a dream that is unreachable because of the thick layers of delusion that have been built upÂ….

I donÂ’t know, IÂ’m sad for Rice and Pman, but I wonÂ’t stop reading this thread because there is some frustrated expressions of truth posted on here that I canÂ’t ignore..

Also, LOL at RidePolaris and the troll studies, sorry pal, the majority of the rest of the thread is correct IMO about criticism being needed for delusional public figures who sanitize their comments on YouTube.

Rice keeps running bad and crying in his last video, oh boy i feel we are gonna get a nice blowup/meltdown coming soon if this downswing continues.

I’m surprised we haven’t had a Rice parody video yet. You know, someone putting on a fake beard and throwing up three fingers…maybe scarfing down a can of sardines.

Rice is so miserable about his bad beats but he only loses $100 in this "horrible day" because he plays as tight as a clam. I can't imagine how boring poker must be to swing as little as he does and eke out $10/hr from rakeback and waking up with AA against drunk recs who open to $50 once a day.

On a side note-- I have never seen Rice happier than when that guy at the end of the video said that Trooper was done but Rice was taking over for him.

Myrna, I wasn’t trying to knock you at all my previous comments, just pointing out I can relate to the grind of maintaining status to receive comps. I have nothing but respect for your hustle and openness.

"I only stack people with 50 dollar stacks"

"When I have a good hand I either get no action or someone has a better one"

While he may be running bad in some cases these things are true for every mega nit after a while. Short stackers will get pot committed or throw it in bc they don't care but nobody who knows you is giving you any real action unless they have a monster draw or monster hand. It's not rocket science. So yes when a guy with 50 bucks calls 12 with kj offsuit he's not folding for the last of his money when it comes king or jack high. But the guy with 300 bucks giving action has a big hand against the vagrant who hasn't played a hand in 90 minutes.

So when he flops a set or top two and he's getting action it's not bc he's some tricky poker expert - it's bc even 1/2 droolers have a real hand to go with,in many cases a better hand.

He's also great at leaving out key details of hands.

"I had top 2 someone had a straight" type stuff could be him playing a hand fine or him playing a hand horribly. But people who think they're a lot better at poker than they really are tend to just summarize hands this way. There's a big difference between having j10 on 910j 6 ways where some OMC suddenly springs to life with kq and having 109 10 9 3 board where a guy calls flop ans turn with 68 and puts in half his stack before he rivers a 7.

He's also just not in a good mental state for poker right now. When you go in expecting to lose you're always gonna see monsters under the bed. You're gonna make bad folds and you're gonna blast people off of hands when you have the near lock on the hand.

Aside from the fact you need to live the way he's living when you make 10 bucks an hour,another problem with such a piddly win rate is even if you just have a little negative variance you're toast.

I don't comment on Diesel's youtube videos lol.

This thread is just overly negative so people thjnk I'm a white knight when in reality I have a pretty neutral view on him.

Majority of the people in this thread are good peoples, just like Diesel is. We are all flawed in our own ways and trying our best.

I'm just here to discuss las vegas poker vloggers.

99% of break even to small losing players would likely become winning players by just folding pre.

I think Diesel likely short buys so he plays more passively and doesn't isolate as much so he gets into these trouble spots.

I think one skill that Diesel has that Trooper, P-man and bikeking lack is not going on monkey tilt once they get coolered or fake coolered in a hand.

Diesel will probably never accept that he has leaks in his game, so he's probably actually doing the right thing playing in games with weaker players where he can still be a winning player even with his leaks.

Hahahah
Wow I didn't hear about this hand.

Hahahahah.

"I has two pair derp."

True on the tilt. Which would be nice if he was actually good at poker.

People can punt so much money on tilt or in the pit.

With that said hed probably be better off is he just flat sucked at poker like Pman bc he long ago would have quit and found something more productive to do.

He's eeked out just enough of a living to smugly pat himself on the back for being a "pro" who thinks he's just running bad. It can't possibly be his win rate is tiny,games are getting harder,rake is getting higher etc as be he has absolutely zero room for anything to go wrong at all.

I mean I've had some absolutely horrendous sessions (one timing in plo) where I lose all 10 all ins in a night or something like that go 2 for 12 whatever.And sometimes all of them were perfectly fine and I can't control the cards. But somewhere in that night I could have played a hand better. Maybe not even in any of the all ins. Maybe just some 100 dollar pot. No matter what I did I was going to get mangled that night but it could have been slightly less bad and I Try and learn from that.

But not once does Diesel who makes cheeseburger money ever say what hand could I have played better? Where could I have stolen a few pots etc? It is just welp I had 2 pair nothing I could do. Welp I was ahead on that all in and lost nothing I could do. He just thinks he plays perfect poker and cries about run-outs.

I actually respect full time poker players that can play 40+ hours a week and not get fatigued and start making mistakes.

For me after 5 hours I start getting fatigued and all it takes is a split second lapse in judgement to wipe out your profits.

For me I rarely play more than 5 hour sessions for this reason, I can't imagine having to do it day in and day out and relying on it to pay your bills.

Diesel is likely part of 1% of 1/3 players that relies on poker to pay their bills, alot of that is because winning players move up, and also because 99% of people would not want to live the standard of life that he does.

I don't believe that the people that make $30/hour in 1/3 would have even close to the same win rate if they started playing 2000 hours a year. Those players are likely very good players but I think only a few select people can crush a game while also increasing their volume by that much.

You are not winning $30/hour in 1/3 playing 2,000 hours a year unless you are a crusher in poker imo and 99.9% would just move up to higher stakes at that point.

I think the most he could handle is working part time in a job without driving other people crazy or him getting triggered so he would probably never be able to pay his bills working a normal job.

He is pretty unemployable imo, I don't think he can hold down jobs so in a weird way he's actually doing well for himself.

Some people are just not fit to be a productive member of society, and I think he's one of them.

When you see Diesel types they are usually living with their parents in their basement for life. Intelligence isn't the issue, they just have weird social issues preventing them from holding down jobs.

He found his one niche that allows him to fend for himself and pay his bills and be independent.

I haven’t played with him in probably 7 years but I don’t remember him short stacking. I think he bought in for$300.

just watched their latest sprkli vlog.

I have to admit, I feel a little happy for the chubby guy at the end of that vid.
They have been working hard, and they got their reward of almost selling out. Its nice to see.
sincerely

walking around with a coffee and playing 2 hours of poker while falling asleep to youtube videos and claiming the busiest guy in vegas, now that was hard to take. But this, so far, ok

I mean they seem happy and things are going good, but are they actually making 4 or 5k net profit a month to be split between them, I highly doubt it, and if that was the case, they would be set to go over the cap for cottage.

Then a chunk to Uncle Sam.

I'll say one thing for Rice, he can at least claim to be a poker pro, even if he is living a pitiful existence, unlike a clip I seen from a 'world record holder' the other day who claimed to have been a poker pro.

In a recent YouTube comment section, Rice was asked if he'll be dealing the WSOP this Summer, and Rice replied with an emphatic NO!

Rice said he might try to deal one of the other Summer series.

I'm thinking he might have read the WSOP employment application section about grooming requirements.
That, or Rice realizes he has no chance of succeeding 'working for the man'.

It's too bad Rice won't try to deal at the WSOP, because that would of had some epic hilarity for his viewers.