Las Vegas Poker Player Vlogs

Started watching Ryan Depaulo this Series. Guy is hilarious.

Sad to see no Neeme vlogs, but I guess he’s busy with his Texas operations.

Neeme is back in Detroit, dealing with a family emergency. He tweeted recently about his father being in hospital (or maybe it was on Instagram).

To quote myself, here is the Tweet I mentioned:

Took less than 2 weeks for Rice to declare himself the best Omaha tournament dealer in the room before then saying he struggles reading low hands in Omaha.

Although my Harvard education hasn't opened as many door as I had hoped, I've never gotten turned down for a job for not being sufficiently pro-genocide. Don't believe everything you hear on cable news folks. 🙄

You are actually supposed to stack the pot, not necessarily split the pot evenly in the center, on all 8/b games.....regardless if there is a low or not. "It is not up to the dealer to 'interpret' the board via chips"

I dealt 8/b for a long time years ago, and play a bunch of O8

Only day 13 of 50 and people are questioning his authority, he can laugh this off now but when it happens 6, 7, 8 ..... times he might blow up. lol

If he is going to start stacking the pot when it looks like a low might come or is already there, he has to get the action started first.

Reading the low is easy, just know what the nut low and 2nd nut low is before showdown then look for those.

Koshka, I think you wrongly assume his vlogs are solely geared toward poker players, and regular poker players at that. Much of his audience watches for content on casino and player promotions, etc and not just poker theory or hand analysis. Assuming every viewer understands split pot games, or even just hold'em, is incorrect. It might be elementary for you, but you're not the only viewer.

I would love nothing more than a reasonable reply that you get this, and not some snarky comment, but I don't hold my breath.

for a moment i thought his "childhood friend" was back in the thread

I'm glad Rice is sticking with dealing and putting in lots of hours but he needs to be able to admit when he's wrong or did something wrong.

He said "I didn't see him check " and hangs on to the fact that technically he's right bc he didn't see 2 players check.

But he didn't see 2 players check bc he wasn't paying attention to the action like he should have been.

When players tell him he's wrong ,they mean he's wrong bc the players did in fact check.

At any new job you're going to make mistakes and not know every single procedure at that work place. As long as you don't repeat mistakes and learn from them it's not a big deal.

I don't think Rice has got his first paycheck yet, cause there's no way in hell they're gonna get that right, and then, let the fireworks begin.

So if I say to someone that doesn’t understand split pot games that in order for a low to be possible, there needs to be three unique low cards on board, that’s not clear enough?

I’ll need to give scenarios out as well?

That’s like me explaining that in a best of five series, if team A is up 3-0 3-1 or 3-2, team B cannot win the series.

this is what I know: I have a masters degree. I am very good at my job. I am a problem solver, I take on escalated issues and clean up after the customer service department screws everything up, the vice president recently said "your team is doing a great job, our liability costs for the quarter are down $500K from a year ago" and my annual raise was like 60 cents. I have a crappy house and the housing market nationwide is practically impossible to relocate. the different careers available that pay over $60k are almost nonexistent.
there are almost unlimited job openings available that don't pay half a livable wage.

I made some dumb career and education choices 15-20 years ago and it is unrealistic to start over or go back to school.
that being said, at age 40 with 3 kids, a dog and a garden, I'm at the happiest point in my life.
just some rambling, probably meaningless. but our country is built for the super rich and to keep people poor, no matter who sits in the WH. I'm at the bottom part of the middle. I don't have much hope of improving, but I guess I've learned to be comfortable and happy as much as I can

If you are addressing an audience that does not play poker whatsoever, then yes, it is helpful to explain what is going on with a scenario so they understand, at least partially. Thank you for the reasonable reply.

Great vlog from Jpards. From down low to up top. lol
That is what a sun run looks like in a tournament.

How did you determine that Rice's audience does not play poker whatsoever? While his viewership is unlikely to be as poker centric as Andrew Neeme or Brad Owen viewers, that doesn't mean that they have zero awareness about poker concepts.

What Rice does goes well beyond just explaining. He repeats the same point over and over again, just with slight variations in wording and with multiple examples, often even using props and silly diagrams.

As has been pointed out before, he does this because he assumes he is the smartest person in the world and that he needs to dumb himself down for everyone. He does it with every subject, so it has nothing to do with his audience being poker savvy or not.

In this instance it would have been enough to just say that there needs to be 3 low cards on the board and 2 in your hand. Anyone with even the slightest understanding of how poker operates will then know that there must be at least 1 low card on the flop, and at least 2 low cards by the turn.

I doubt Rice has ever admitted to being wrong about anything.

Also, I've played tournaments in many casinos where cards are dealt to the stacks, regardless of whether the player is seated or not. If the player is not seated by the time the last card is dealt then their cards are mucked by the dealer. No idea if this is what they do at Orleans or not, just saying it's not a crazy ass thing like Rice assumes.

The Tournament Staff told Rice they were breaking a table, and they would be full. Two of the players (seats 7 and 9) arrived with their stacks before he started dealing. Seat 5 and their stack did not arrive at the table before the hand was already dealt. Players move their stacks on table changes.

Ok that's different. So he dealt a hand with just 2 players? If he knew other players would be arriving momentarily surely it would make sense to wait a few seconds?

this is TDA rules, they do it everywhere.
sounds like Rice hasn't played a lot of tournaments and is probably unaware of this.
cash games are not as rigid.

yeah he should have dealt to seat 5 of the floor told him the seat was being filled. table breaks are not a break

I was interviewed on a podcast about 10 years ago about how I learned to play PLO8.

I told them that Rice's book Super Systems was the best resource.

The limited edition book came with a signed spoon.

I sold the spoon at a Christie's auction for $1.25 million.

My Yale education and contacts allowed me to launch an online poker network in 2001.

If any Ivy grads want to look into online the gambling industry, pm me.

(The most recent Yale Club Las Vegas meetup at Paris was interesting, although they let a couple of Harvard grads in as well)

So you have gotten a job since last October?