Flopping Quads

Part-time gamer. Recreational Poker Player. ♠️♥️♣️♦️🍪🍪 Vibing🎶 in good vibes and bad vibes. ☯️

[Flopping Quads @wood_floppy]

My first 3D print is the COD that I hold, a little late but looks real good!... Also amazed by MakerWorld's Image to 3D feature! Thank you for the 3D print workshop at OnionDAO, look forward to other tech workshops!#poker #pokercoaching @oniondao_ @DegeneracyNFT @JonathanLittle

[Liv Boeree @Liv_Boeree]

what in the ever loving fuck

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I'm in. @oniondao June 2026 — Chicago. https://t.co/0Y9eFDRD6B https://t.co/J504ARHdDa

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@tritonpoker why mot me

[Dustin Iannotti @dustini]

I'm about to alienate the entire poker industry with what I'm going to say.

But someone needs to point out that we've been telling the wrong story for 20 years.

The evidence is undeniable. The solution is uncomfortable.

The poker content industry is creatively bankrupt and

I'm done pretending otherwise.

While other games turn niche audiences into a global phenomenon, we're recycling formulas for the same shrinking pool of viewers.

Wrestling is scripted. Chess is silent. Golf is slow.

All three are Netflix sensations worth hundreds of millions.

Poker—where people literally risk their life savings while engaging in psychological warfare—can barely crack 250K YouTube views.

This shouldn't be possible. But it is.

The Queen's Gambit made more people care about chess in 8 weeks than poker content has made people care about poker in 8 years.

Chess set sales: +1000%
New online players: +5 MILLION
Chess school applications: DOUBLED

From a FICTIONAL story about a game where two people sit in complete silence staring down at a board and occasionally move tiny wooden objects.

Have we already forgotten?

Twenty years ago, poker exploded because of a story. Not a hand.

A nobody accountant with a perfect last name…

Facing off against a guy whose picture belongs in the dictionary next to "poker player"...

An unlit cigarette hanging from his mouth...

The coolest, coldest motherfucker ripped straight out of a Scorsese movie.

And the underdog prevails.

THAT'S storytelling. THAT'S what captivated millions.

Then we lost our way.

Poker suffered a decade-long drought after Black Friday. TV coverage dried up. Online sites vanished overnight. The industry was on life support.
What brought it back? Not strategy videos. Not hand breakdowns.

It was personalities. Stories. Characters. Influencers who understood that poker without people is just math.

We've been here before. We know what works. Yet we're drifting back into the same trap.

While poker content creators play musical chairs, recycling the same 250,000 existing YouTube viewers, Formula 1 converted 20 million non-fans into rabid followers.

99% of gambling content is created for the 1% who already play.

While sites battle over the same shrinking player pool, they're ignoring the 300M potential fans hungry for real human drama.

What do Formula 1, chess, and professional wrestling have that poker doesn't?

It's not bigger audiences. It's not more drama.

It's one specific storytelling approach that poker content creators actively avoid:

They focus on PEOPLE first, activity second.

They build CHARACTERS, not just champions.

They create EMOTION, not just education.

Meanwhile, poker sites pour millions into new features and UI improvements, while investing next to nothing in original, impactful content.

They'd rather spend $3M optimizing their lobby than $1M on a story that could bring in a million new players.

Short-term metrics over long-term vision.
Quick conversions over cultural relevance.
Features over feelings.

Everyone criticizes @RealKidPoker and @phil_hellmuth - But they are in the arena, trying different things to actively participate in growing the game.

Name someone who’s done more to bring new fans to poker…I’ll wait.

Meanwhile, we've convinced ourselves that a stream's 37th close-up of some math wizard calling a 3-bet with J7 suited is "revolutionary content."

Even the shows considered "industry standard" – Hustler Casino Live and High Stakes Poker – make the same fundamental error:

Selecting hands based on POT SIZE rather than NARRATIVE VALUE.
High stakes should be part of the storytelling – not the ONLY story.

We need to be the change we want to see in poker storytelling.

I'm putting these principles into practice through my work on @Mister_Keating's channel.

Not to self-promote. But to prove it can be done.

We're crafting narrative arcs across multiple hands.
We're revealing the psychological warfare.
We're turning poker sessions into cinematic experiences.

The future belongs to storytellers who understand that gambling at high stakes is dramatic CONTEXT, not compelling CONTENT by itself.

I'm tired of hearing "When is Rounders 2 coming out?"

We don't need Rounders 2.

We need creators and businesses with a stake in this beautiful game to come together and make content that breaks beyond anything Rounders ever did.

We need to aim higher than recycling nostalgia. We need to create NEW classics.

Here's what happens if we succeed:

Poker becomes cultural currency again.
New players flood into the game.
Sites and casinos thrive with fresh blood.
A generation of storytellers finds their canvas.

And if we fail?

We continue the slow, uncomfortable decline. We keep talking to the same shrinking audience. We become chess before The Queen's Gambit – a niche game for a dedicated few.

And for the executives reading this thread right now, calculating ROI:

While your competitors chase micro-conversions, imagine owning the next cultural sensation.

Imagine poker's Drive to Survive moment – 20M new fans, 53% viewership increases.

The long-term math isn't complicated. The courage to be first is rare.

We've spent 20 years showing cards.
It's time to show character.

We've spent two decades explaining how to play.
Now let's show why people NEED to watch.

The storytelling must finally match the stakes.

Poker content needs an entirely new narrative.

I plan to write it.

This is a call to the entire industry to join me.

Challenge yourself.
Challenge the status quo.

We need to move at the speed of attention.
Or the attention will disappear.

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@chamath Amount of normies depends on the buy-in amount? Or maybe a long tail of prize distribution could attract normies but that kills some excitement

[HIDEO_KOJIMA @HIDEO_KOJIMA_EN]

There’s no end to the things I love about this movie, but here are a few moments that really got me. Cyclone runs a barbershop. Even in the dark fortress, Shin keeps his sunglasses on and speeds through narrow corridors on a bike. The eating scenes are properly shown (that pork looks amazing). Chan Lok-kwan turns a “Hi-Eight” chocolate from the candy store into a mask (we all did that back in the day). Sammo Hung gets in on the action, too. And of course, everyone’s a heavy smoker.

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@jazzgouldwilson Thank you for writing your great review, I definitely feel the homesick part!

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@NickVertucciNV make it different

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@MariaHo Was it an enjoyable process? Must be a lot of head to head plays with the greatest HORSE players

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@nikairball PLO is crazy, hope you are doing fine

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@rampagepoker @WPT @Milk_Sheep1

[Rampage @rampagepoker]

Giveaway time! Super excited about this trip and I get to giveaway a cabin to @WPT Voyage to one lucky follower!

The cabin includes a package worth $4,000 for 2 people and there’s a golf tourney on the voyage :)

Follow the steps below to enter, you have until Feb 11th

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@DougPolkVids Get a smaller house

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@scott_seiver is this 8 games? looks like more than 8 in those game cards

[Phil Galfond @PhilGalfond]

The Confident Man

The confident man is shaped over a lifetime, beginning at its very inception.

Year after year, layer after layer, his experiences, along with the opinions and accepted truths of those around him, seep into his consciousness, sculpting the thick lenses through which he views the world.

His fears, insecurities, and the biases inherent to the human condition fog these lenses further.

Yet, in the face of all this confusion, the confident man has a remarkable ability to get to the truth, as he believes it to be.

He is bombarded with inputs…

• A video of unverifiable information.
• The assertive written opinion of an intellectual he respects.
• A conversation with his friends.
• 14th-hand facts — originating from a poorly performed research study, grossly misinterpreted in a magazine article, and contorted through a game of social media telephone.

Presented with a daily buffet of information and influence, the confident man is undeterred.

He fearlessly consumes and digests the vast spread and, with astonishing speed, produces a viewpoint of his very own.

This viewpoint emerges compact, tinged by a subset of facts – the most prevalent and palatable ones he’s encountered.

Of course, the confident man shares his freshly formed opinion, and this is where the true magic happens…

With his opinion on record, he no longer has the luxury of curiosity.

Those who challenge his stance force him to defend himself.

He hunts for evidence in support of his truth — the truth — efficiently discarding anything unhelpful to this mission.

Intelligent people validate him; idiots and evil people debate him with laughably flawed arguments.

The sincere bring forth supporting evidence.

The dishonest or misguided share fake news in a futile attempt to prove him wrong.

Some who he previously deemed smart and honest have their true colors revealed.

Unsurprisingly, this process emboldens the confident man.

His thoughts, still in their intellectual infancy, are swiftly encased in amber, preserving their youthful form in a rigid, unchangeable state.

A hardened cog in the very same marketing machine that shaped his own beliefs, his 15th-hand facts and unshakeable views prejudice anyone they come into contact with.

And so it continues.

The certainty.

The polarization.

The disgust.

The hate.

Though the outcome is undoubtedly negative, the confident man means well.

He believes he’s forming and sharing his views thoughtfully. He’s trying, sometimes desperately, to help.

You and I, the observers, can see the truth.

That he, merely a human being, up against a world of powerful yet nearly invisible influence and trickery, cannot see reality as clearly as he believes he’s able.

This is how he and another confident man, born with the same level of intellect and kindness, each grazed by slightly different surroundings, can become so certain of opposing viewpoints that they fail to even comprehend how the other could be so stupid.

Or worse, so evil.

For the confident man, encountering and disagreeing with another is an inevitability, as, unfortunately, he exists as a member of confident mankind.

Billions of people, all inhabiting one planet.

Each and every one of them, merely a human being, up against a world of powerful yet nearly invisible influence and trickery, duped into actually believing their version of reality is authentic.

An entire species of delusionists.

While some manage it better than others, no amount of knowledge can cure them of the reality-distorting genetic condition with which they’ve each been born.

It is inescapable.

To cease forming opinions and beliefs is not an option for the confident man, nor is seeing the world as it truly exists.

There is only one thing he can do.

Only one hope to curb his delusion and the damage it perpetuates:

Be less confident.

[Karen Jerzyk @KJerzykPhoto]

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