Mate, really enjoy your content, and personally, I've gone off watching the other guys you mentioned. It's nice to watch a guy closer to reality for most of us. Keep doing you, it works 👍

hey Alex, I had the same baseball dream to, same results lol,.you may never get up to brad Owen status but you have something that I enjoy watching, you and Valdez are carving out a niche in poker vlogging. keep up the good work.

Love the relatability of the small stakes!

AcJc should be all in on the flop

Thanks for sharing about your baseball dreams. Those were the same dreams I had except my baseball. Heroes were Willie Mayes and Juan Marichal. I played with a bunch of minor-league players and quickly realized I was the least talented on the team also.But had a great time playing with good players. Oh, by the way … enjoy your blog and playing against you. LOL

Great intro for letting us into your life a bit. You’ll be even better man. Think big and rep Sacramento wherever you go in life.

You post and do this for your own personal growth. if it takes off hey, that's good. But you enjoy the game and keep going with it. Keep grinding and the views will come with consistent uploads. It took Ben Deach 5 years to reach 30k subs (i've been following him since the beginning)

I wouldn't be too quick to sell yourself short brother. You've made me burst out laughing way more times than Owen has and I've watched a lot more of his videos. I really appreciate your dry humour and snips (I feel like Brad tries to be funny, and you have a more natural way about it). I also appreciate that you're quick and to the point with your thought process. I watched your new school poker vid and you easily earned the sub from that opening rant alone, let alone the poker. There are a lot of us out there that have the same viewpoint as you, you're just a lot better at putting it together in words and humour. Please don't aspire to be anything different! Poker needs people like you!

Just stumbled on your channel and I’m glad I did. Super relatable play. Love that you play low stakes cause that’s where I’m at and love seeing the journey. You have a fan in me

Funny how you mentioned Jeff Kent, grew up playing with his son who is now playing for A&M, Jeff’s really cool but you couldn’t get words out of him at all. During games he’d put head phones on so no one would talk to him 😭

You may never be poker "famous" but I thoroughly enjoy your content. I only play tournaments at the cap but love your channel. Keep doin you my guy. 💪🏿💜👽🤘🏿

Hey mate, just found this channel! Really nice video. You have great potential! Keep it up

Way to gett'em love the c-bet bluff and using your table image to your advantage. In the rockets hand , you gotta go with your gut and your reads of players you've played with.... but that seemed like a pretty tight fold. He could have easily had A(h) Q(x) K-K or K(h)-Q. 4-1 to call is definitely undervalued when you have Aces over 4s Enjoy your content and hope you continue grinding

Nice introduction. Self awareness is a good thing. Your honesty will make more people root for you. Including me.

Very nice hands this month bro keep it going. Very nice hand played with 99.

I’m with ya bro d2 player played with yanks for few years and love poker like u do. All the best buddy

I'm currently working up my poker kitty so I can afford a set up and do the same. A little San Antonio based, low stakes poker channel. You're an inspiration

Rock 'n roll, good sir. Much respect.

What’s your thought process on bailing at 2

Lol crazy I had same baseball journey seems very common the baseball/poker journey there's something to it for sure

With KJ of hearts. Perfect check back on the turn. Perfect sizing to get paid on the river. Smallish pot, but getting $30 of extra value…..adds up over thousands of hands

Nice work. Keep it up!

Did you play on the Sweets when Jarren did? He actually stayed with one of my high school buddies when he was in Walla Walla. Keep up the grind brother.

That fold on the 1st hand hurts me. I'm never folding there but I'm not just calling cuz it turns your hand face up. Hey gl man Experience is everything in poker. Playing online will make you a much better player. 10c25c is tougher than any stake at the casinos near me

mo famous, mo problems right! another good vlog.

In my opinion, I think it was very possible that you might have the winning hand. He had position over you and possibly had q, j in the River or ace queen. You said he would let you know if he had a hand so I’m profiling him as somewhat tight. For 100 on the River , I probably would have called. He probably didn’t put you on over pair so he ruled out flushes and 4s on your part thinking his hand was better and decided to go for value on the River. Or he was slow playing pocket queens and tried to make it cheap for you to call. Either way you had first account of how that player plays. It was a 50/50 call I think. Anyway as always, I look forward to your videos.

On Q-4-4 flop I would size up to like 75. No Q-x hand will fold to that sizing and it helps to grow the pot. 40 is too small

hello alex this is my first time commenting on your channel. i have played hold em for over twenty years and my current home is thunder valley casino. anyway, my question to you is how do u know? in the aces hand where u folded because u believed your opponent had a flush ===how do you know? one of the things i ask people when we go over hands, is what do you think your opponents have and vice versa. in this hand you were only thinking of what u thought he had but what do you think he thought u had? this is very important!! if he thought u had ace-king would he bet his queen in position? i would, especially heads up!! also, he knows that a four or flush in that scenario favors him more so than you. i say this because i feel you should have called this guy because u had aces. u simply beat all of his potential two pair hands. just because its scary doesnt mean it has to be. keep in mind he doesnt know that u dont the flush unless u tell him. and how did u that by checking the turn and river. sometimes, against certain players, u should play poker police or keep betting until he lets u know u r in trouble!! anyway, keep up the good work with the channel and maybe i see u at thunder. i will be the only player wearing a kc chiefs hat.

Norcalpoker3? What happened to normal 1 and 2

Do you play at Thunder Valley?

If you want to grow your channel fast, chop up all your hands to single reels. That’s what’s being promoted across all platforms. 20 seconds ideally

Lex made the good at poker Marino category ? Lol

I like your vlogs

Wanted to come straight out. My kid was the same with baseball even though I hate the game myself. I just want to say, anybody who makes all League in high school is a legit player. Anybody who starts in college is a legit player. Especially in D1. My kid loved the game. And probably could have had a few years in the minors but that’s about it. Played his high school ball with 3 guys that have MLB playing time (2 still rostered). He saw what it would take and realized time to just start life instead. He wasn’t a school guy. He just wanted to play ball. Walked away from a starting spot at the JuCo. Basically, I’m saying that I have done the journey as a parent. Getting as far as you did is impressive. Long Beach is not an also ran program. They are legit. Anyways, the phrase “hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.” Is true in high school and before. But once you get past high school, everyone works hard. So it comes to just pure genetic ability. Visual acuity or lightning bolt for an arm with control. Sorry your journey ended before you wanted it but your dream ended way later than a lot of other players. Respect. Keep up with your vlog. You can absolutely be the next Neeme or Mariano. Although not rampage. Kind of like saying you want to be the next Johny manzeil. Anyways, keep it up. I watch and haven’t left your subscriber list. Just need to find you groove. It’s still young in your journey. Now to watch the rest of the video. 👍

Honestly I feel like you still had plenty of value at least calling after the river with the Aces, he may have had a flush but from my pov it seemed like it was low. But honestly I think you had him beat there

Your proft and loss screen has what sounds like a golf ball swing noise during the transition. You should have a baseball bat hit instead. Fits the theme?

I think that’s the wrong attitude to have. The attitude you should have is that you will succeed at whatever you attempt. Because you know you can. These guys have all found ways to add value with their personalities whether it’s humor, gamble, etc. Find a way to bring your personality more into your vlogs and keep doing what you’re doing and you’ll succeed. Good luck.

The fold with AA was terrible, you’re getting ~4:1 and you just need to be correct about 20% of the time for it to be a break even call.

With that mindset, you won’t get where you want to go. don’t think that way, you can really achieve anything. I think you compare yourself too much to others and just focus on yourself. You can get to their level, they started just like you did.

Great vlogs. I am going to send you an email. My background is baseball too and my story is somewhat similar to yours, but I'm a generation older than you! I'm a Brewers fan! I want to be a better poker player and I think you can help me. Thank you!

Were you really worried about being beat with the *second nut flush* ??!? Wtf

The website ignition is no good, many ppl do double team, cheating or 2 accounts to1 person. 1 raise,u call,the other1 pop reraise. They do this whenever 1 got AA,Kk or Ak, too much cheating., and the pay out is crypto not cash.

Day 1: AJ suited you open for $28. AA you open UTG for $15? And still get too many callers. My advice is don’t underplay AA even out of position.

_Oh Shịt_ 7:13

Those guys are no poker famous to the likes of Ivel, hellmuth and Negreanu. Just like most of us in the comments are no more famous to the likes of you. Keep up the good work bro

Protect your hand better. Your table neighbors can see your cards.

Hmm, you seem to sell yourself short. I know a lot of really good baseball players that couldn't even play at the JC level and only 2% make the D1 level...meaning you were better than 98% of high school players. Yeah, the jump to pro (at any level) is a huge one but seriously, it is an accomplishment to even compete at the D1 level for however long.

I wanna say that I started out watching rampage and Mariano but stopped watching them altogether because it just wasn’t interesting anymore. Right now you, Brandon and lex are my go to channels. I’m routing for you and I appreciate that you play smaller stakes.

No Doug Polk!

Just have a big bankroll then you will be fine!

I’d rather be lucky than famous.

what the rack at Capitol?

If you gave up on your baseball dream "after just one day" then you didn't deserve success. I wish you better luck with your poker career. Sidenote. You have that same sound I have. If I ever made a poker vlog it would probably sound very similar. I imagine once you've been doing it for awhile you loosen up and your vlog takes off. You might end up surprising yourself.

You lost me at Barry Bonds bro….

This kind of sounds like you just being insecure and trying to cope. Why wouldn’t you be able to reach a level of fame like the vloggers you mentioned? It’s one thing to not care to be famous or the best poker player. But to say it’s not possible sounds like ur just facing feelings of inadequacy. I don’t think your measure of success or worth should be tied to how famous you are. But with that being said, you should believe in yourself and it isn’t some pipedream like being succesful in baseball. One is an impossible to change physical limitation, while being an entertaining person is obtainable.

Your poker famous…. U have 2.2k followers… now you’re just bluffing all day!

Bro you speak too negatively of yourself. Think big and big things will happen!

If you wanna be famous just cheat on Livestream

Being famous is overrated. U get harassed in public all the time.

The Aces hand with the Q44 5J board... i think you're getting too good of a price, $105 to win $405. Almost 4:1. Villian is in position and with you giving up on turn, can have an array of hands he thinks hes going for value such as QJ, KQ, AQ with a heart. Perhaps he's putting you on AK with ace of hearts. At capitol, i rarely see 1/3rd pot value bets with essentially nutted hands.