Las Vegas Poker Player Vlogs

This could work for all the vloggers going the other direction. Every 1% sold, the logo gets bigger.

i think we just found rice's pathway to fame

Her family must be proud.

Great to see these dealer videos have pumped up Diesel’s daily views, very happy for him. I haven’t been watching most of them because they are so boring and I watch videos every day from the Diesel of meatpacking.

Didn’t Lynne used to post full nudes on Twitter, inflation is ruining everything nowadays hychachachacha.

That's a gross hoe.

Pman is preparing for the WSOP ME. It's this work ethic and drive that has gotten him where he is in the poker world.

He is on a mission to turn $1000 into 100k online.

seems achievable. I wish him success

i am not the brightest but streaming a challenge like this does not seem like a great idea to me. I would think a large percentage of the audience would be opponents. I know if I were one I would record every stream. I have found that knowing an opponents exact thought process tends to be very lucrative

Brilliant. He should have done this from the beginning instead of wallowing in failure.

it's only not a great idea if there's a thought process to begin with

Perhaps we are reading it wrong, it’s 100,000 -> 1,000 challenge.

I'm not a pman hater. He seems like a decent dude with some delusion about whats really sustainable as a life style. But as soft as wsop probably is certainly nl50 is a tough game for your skill level right? There's a lot of learning benefits to making your way through the levels. I only play nl10 and soon nl25, but I learned a ton grinding through NL2 and nl5. Mostly I learned how much I actually suck. Pman I think if you've never truly beaten a stake for a significant sample you need to move down. If I'm wrong and you have beaten nl25 then disregard

I think pman will crush this challenge. He seemed like a smart bloke the one time I met him at the Piranha Club.

In the spring of 2022, a little over 2 years ago, Mr. Urbanic made a prop bet with a friend of a friend who was a high-stakes poker player. The challenge was to turn $120 into $1,000 (i.e., win $880) in 3 months playing 10NL online. James put up $500 to win $5,000. That's right. The person making this bet with James gave him 10-1 odds.

James estimated his win rate at 6-8 bb/100 and calculated that he would likely have to play between 250,000 and 400,000 hands to achieve his goal. He said he was usually 8-tabling and would switch to Blitz tables if it got down to the wire. However, he was not allowed to move up or down in stakes, and if he lost 12 buy-ins, he was done.

Those who were following his journey closely questioned both his win rate and his ability to grind out that many hands in 90 days when he had never put in anywhere close to that volume previously. Some suggested that this prop bet was ill-advised and that he should try to negotiate a buyout. As always, he scoffed at such criticism and advice.

How did that turn out—does anyone remember?

In the first month he was up a few hundred dollars. Then the downswing began. Maybe it was variance, maybe there was some tilt, maybe his fundamentals were flawed. Maybe the competition was just better than him. He managed to go from $320 or so to $40 before he threw in the towel (i.e., conceded the bet and paid the $500). Shortly thereafter, he left Vegas and moved to Florida.

Do I think he can turn $1,000 into $100,000? I have no idea—especially since he hasn't specified a time frame for doing so. It sounds like an ambitious goal for a crusher, and we have no evidence that Mr. Urbanic has been crushing online poker since he returned to Vegas. I think it's more likely he will turn $1,000 into $160 and give up on this particular challenge. But what do I know? Maybe he will surprise us all.

Anyone who wonders why people here are critical of Pman should go back and read his blog: https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/174/p.... So many posters gave him so much good advice—for months, if not years. Yet very little has changed.

Ah, Pman! Ah, Humanity!

first time hearing about this bet. Not at all surprised he failed the challenge. This next challenge he's on is infinitely more difficult, and it's pretty obvious to everyone on the planet except for Pman that he is a losing 50NL player. This kid is so delusional.

I hope everyone is proud of themselves. He was such a positive force and will be greatly missed.

How it started:

"I've gotten a lot of great feedback on the two + two forums."

How it's going

I call

I'm sorry he was not able to find the echo chamber he was looking for.

to be fair, while it may have started with good intentions, a lot of people were actively rooting for his failures towards the end

p42 was a good one

"hey pman, no one wants a job."
"it's my life and I do what I want!"

He doesn’t know it yet, but we are the fuel that will propel him into the pinnacle of poker!

PMan knows what he has to do - now the grind begins