Poker vloggers let their audiences ride shotgun on their journey but keeping up to date on them can be a bit of a challenge. Each week, PocketFives brings you a selection of the very best so you can watch them all in a single session. Andrew Neeme is Looking for Some Horses to Back You… Continue reading This Week in VLOGS: Neeme, Vaughan, and a GTO Guest Spot

Poker vloggers let their audiences ride shotgun on their journey but keeping up to date on them can be a bit of a challenge. Each week, PocketFives brings you a selection of the very best so you can watch them all in a single session. Marle Cordeiro Wants Five Minutes of Your Time In case… Continue reading THIS WEEK IN VLOGS: 5 Minutes with Marle, Brad Goes to Hollywood

Poker vloggers let their audiences ride shotgun on their journey but keeping up to date on them can be a bit of a challenge. Each week, PocketFives brings you a selection of the very best so you can watch them all in a single session. Andrew Neeme Doesn’t Know What He’s Doing Andrew Neeme, who… Continue reading THIS WEEK IN VLOGS: Neeme in Calgary, Burton a Hero, Savage Top 5

Andrew Neeme has never won a World Series of Poker bracelet, a World Poker Tour title, a European Poker Tour title and he’s most likely not going to be playing in the Super High Roller Bowl anytime soon. Yet he walks into poker room these days he inevitably runs into a fan.

“It wasn’t always easy. When I first moved out here in 2012, I played for like six months. I moved to L.A. and didn’t have good bankroll management, expenses were a lot higher and I ended up going broke and I moved back in with my parents. That was especially brutal.”

Celebrity in the poker world is hard to define. The line between the level of Daniel Negreanu and Phil Hellmuth and then everyone else doesn’t exist the way it did before Black Friday. There are celebrities in poker and vloggers are part of a niche group that draws its own fanbase. This draw is proving… Continue reading VLOG / TURN / RIVER: Vloggers Still Hoping for Endorsement Windfall

His bag has gone missing. Not the frivolous one that includes unnecessary stuff like clothes or toiletries. The real important items are AWOL – like backup batteries and chargers. Also his laptop.

For many who do it, working on a vlog is a labor of love. Potentially, once a vlogger reaches a certain plateau they will able to monetize their work by signing up with YouTube and applying to the YouTube Partnership Program. And maybe that’s the end goal. But for many of today’s top poker vloggers,… Continue reading VLOG / TURN / RIVER: Growing a Vlog Audience Requires Commitment

When it comes to storytelling, former underground poker dealer turned entrepreneurial vlogger Tim ‘TheTrooper97’ Watts, has no shortage of material. “I had a gun literally six inches from my chest.” If you ask Watts to tell you a story, he’s going to tell you a good one.

The notion of vlogging isn’t completely new, with some of the world’s most popular vloggers, like Casey Neistat, having turned the camera on themselves for the better part of this decade. But when it comes to vlogging in poker, it’s still a little bit of the Wild West. The growing genre is finding many previously… Continue reading VLOG / TURN / RIVER: Negreanu, Polk Among Big Names on Vlog Train

The average life of a live poker pro is hours consumed on the felt followed by whatever downtime is spent at home. For Andrew Pieper, the felt is his home. The 26-year-old is living a voluntary life without a permanent residence. Pieper values the utility and money saved over the material possessions that associate with… Continue reading VLOG / TURN / RIVER: Andrew Pieper Happy Without a Home

You have a passion for poker and video. What better to combine the two than starting your own vlog? Playing poker is the easy part. Just find a casino near you. The hard end of the equation is finding the right equipment to film, produce, and edit the vlogs. All vloggers in the “Vlog, Turn,… Continue reading VLOG / TURN / RIVER: Learn About the Tools of the Trade

Matt Vaughan brings a technical side to the poker vlogging game. The former healthcare software employee started his vlog in January 2017, two months after leaving his job in Wisconsin. Vaughan works three jobs in his new home in Baltimore, MD. He plays, teaches, and vlogs poker.

Let’s say that after seeing a few of the latest wave of poker vlogs you’re thinking to yourself, “Hey, I can do that!” Indeed you can and we’re here to help. Before you rack up thousands of views and spend hundreds of hours editing, you’d better take a look at some of the basics of what… Continue reading VLOG / TURN / RIVER: A Primer on Starting Your Own Poker Vlog

You might have noticed somebody in your regular game sitting there with a camera – or two – in front of them. You may also have seen that player walk away from the table and start talking into one of those cameras. It’s all part of a grassroots movement that has beginnings from far outside… Continue reading VLOG / TURN / RIVER: Inside the World of Poker Vlogging