Twitching it up - easywithaces.

[KermitsDream]

My good friend Danny has asked me to get involved on here as I've got involved in what seems like the most current trend in online poker. After giving up my SNE chase before it really got going this year due to the introduction of higher buy in Spin&Gos, I've decided to get involved in a new little project. Building a bankroll from a small invest via twitch.

Twitch is a site where originally gamers were streaming their gameplay whilst interacting with anyone who chose to watch via chat. More recently, some poker players have got involved. You can find my channel here: http://www.twitch.tv/easywithaces

I do have a blog which as recorded my progress so far, but from this point if anyway shows any interest I will continue to cross post the updates there and in here. You can read how I've got on so far here: https://easywithaces.wordpress.com

Some of you might recognise my screen name from a PG&C thread I did here last year, but I'm still going to put up some of the frequently asked questions with answers.

Are these your normal games your streaming? No I usually play 18 mans with a $45 abi. With the buy ins ranging generally from $30 to $200.

Do you play poker full time? Yes I've played full time for the past 3 years, coming into my 4th now.

Is this real money? Indeed.

Why do you live in Malta? Because Ireland is cold and Maltas climate is awesome <3

How many tables do you play? I only share 3 tables on screen but generally have around 16 whilst playing on the stream.

What is your end goal? Not entirely sure, I won't play 18 mans on screen for several reasons. So if I choose to go back to them in the coming weeks/months it'll be the end of the stream.

Why are you costing yourself money playing these games? Obviously playing my normal games nets me a lot more money. But I thought it'd be interesting to do a new little project and see how I can get on. How long I do it for remains to be seen.

I think that covers a decent portion of the questions I get asked very regularly. Feel free to ask anything else in here and I'll try my best to answer. I'm going to commit to the stream until at least the end of March then I'll decide how I feel about it and if it's worth keeping up for any longer.

The most fun day to tune in is definitely a Friday by the way. Trying to get a different guest on each week, whilst dressed in a 3 piece suit drinking beers. Last week we had our very own Jono Crute on the stream. Was really good fun and hope to have him on again.

That's all for now. Hopefully interests a few people. Good luck.

[noname1255]

if i could give you a bit of hopefully constructive criticism it would be sngs are boring as hell to watch
i like the idea of you building a roll with the stream it could grow together but everybody loves mtts and the hope of getting that big score that you dont get with sngs.
i know your an sng player but its not like you wouldnt have an edge playing small mtts.
people love the thought of the old BINK!! ,actually grinding out a bankroll not so much.

[colm_leche]

Thanks for Kermitting to this. I am green with envy.

[Boylo91]

Thanks for Kermitting to this. I am green with envy.

Well played sir

[KermitsDream]

if i could give you a bit of hopefully constructive criticism it would be sngs are boring as hell to watch
i like the idea of you building a roll with the stream it could grow together but everybody loves mtts and the hope of getting that big score that you dont get with sngs.
i know your an sng player but its not like you wouldnt have an edge playing small mtts.
people love the thought of the old BINK!! ,actually grinding out a bankroll not so much.

I agree with that somewhat, which is one of the reasons I chose to play 180s over the monotonous 18 man grind. They have 50+ buy ins for the win and there is the chance for numerous final tables within one session. I think people outside the poker community are just fascinated by the idea of actually making money from playing poker and that is going to be the majority for viewers on twitch. So showing them it is possible to get into poker without a huge investment was another idea behind the bankroll challenge. I will gradually move to Mtts if I stick to it for a while however, but with the recorded progress in the blogs people can read back for themselves to see I started with a small bankroll.

Thanks for Kermitting to this. I am green with envy.

OiOi.

[KermitsDream]

So it turns out I didn't exactly pick a fantastic time to start this. I randomly came home for the week today and it turns out my Dads internet is not good enough to stream with. I might be able to change the settings or something but I'm not great when it comes to computers.

If anyone has any questions I'll still answer but guess pretty much on hold to next week.

[ClogBogger]

maybe consider mixing in some of the micro turbo mtts with the 180s? Should add some of that bink factor to the sessions while not overexposing your roll. The level of play should also provide a little bit of comedy value and some talking points for the stream.

[BrianN]

I actually think the turbo 180s are a great game type for the stream. Having constant all ins, flips etc makes it more entertaining imo than slower games. Ive only caught a small amount of your streams but they seem pretty good. Even got the bug myself to go back donating to the $2.50 180 man community.

If people are interested in checking out other streamers the most entertaining I've found so far are bigdogpckt55 and PokerStaples.

[KermitsDream]

maybe consider mixing in some of the micro turbo mtts with the 180s? Should add some of that bink factor to the sessions while not overexposing your roll. The level of play should also provide a little bit of comedy value and some talking points for the stream.

Ya I do mix in the occasional mtt at the moment and the plan is to gradually play more of them for sure.

I actually think the turbo 180s are a great game type for the stream. Having constant all ins, flips etc makes it more entertaining imo than slower games. Ive only caught a small amount of your streams but they seem pretty good. Even got the bug myself to go back donating to the $2.50 180 man community.

If people are interested in checking out other streamers the most entertaining I've found so far are bigdogpckt55 and PokerStaples.

Thanks for the kind words. I've known Jaime for years and he's the one that encouraged me to get involved. Him and bigdog and at complete different ends of the spectrum in terms of how they offer entertainment. There's nobody that couldn't tune in to Jaime, but some might find bigdog a bit vulgar at times. But I have to say he's probably my favorite person to watch. He's definitely been passed by somewhat in terms of strategy but it's just worth watching it for those precious times when he loses it with an opponent and goes after him.



I grinded a small bit yesterday but with the internet not good enough to stream I feel a bit like I'm wasting my time playing 2s just for the sake of rebuilding the roll. To make it more interesting for tomorrow I've booked a bet with a friend that I can make $500 in a 24 hour period with just 2s. We were talking about what price would be fair, and in my head I was thinking I wouldn't accept less than 10 to 1. So when he offered 20 to 1 I snapped it off. Obviously the risk reward for him isn't the best so we just booked my $20 vs his $400. So at least I have some incentive to grind a decent amount of hours tomorrow. If I'm not close after 12 hours or so I won't push to the end though.

[BrianN]

Sick night for the streamers last night with Jaime Staples winning the big 109 and JCarver final tabling the super tuesday!

[KermitsDream]

Sick night for the streamers last night with Jaime Staples winning the big 109 and JCarver final tabling the super tuesday!

Hadn't got the heart to stay up for Jcarvers stream. Plus I don't enjoy it that much. But Jaimes reaction to winning was priceless. Just such a genuine lad and delighted for him.

[BrianN]

Hadn't got the heart to stay up for Jcarvers stream. Plus I don't enjoy it that much. But Jaimes reaction to winning was priceless. Just such a genuine lad and delighted for him.

Yeah I didn't stay up for his either. Assassinato was streaming and made the final 2 tables of it as well.

Jaime definitely looked overwhelmed when he won. With DPeters most likely watching the stream as well u could tell he didn't want to overdo a celebration when he won in that way. He's straight back on the grind already today like a boss.

[KermitsDream]

Going to cross post the majority of the last post my blog.


I had great plans for this week at home. A lot of which had to do with streaming for a lot of hours. However, Ireland’s internet (or at least that in my Mum and also my Dads house) had other ideas. I couldn’t even really watch Twitch streams this week, never mind actually streaming myself.

That has got to be slower than dial up. Considering I have 100mb download in Malta and the stream doesn’t always run completely smoothly we stood zero chance here. So that was somewhat frustrating. I needed to find some motivation to grind $2.50 180s off stream, because after the unfortunate events of last week I wanted to get the bankroll back to a healthier state. In the end I booked a bet at 20/1 (my $20 vs $400) that I could make $500 in a 24 hour period playing just 2s. When I booked it, I genuinely wasn’t sure who got the better end of the deal. However, after talking to people who are smarter than me, the general consensus was I’d got quite a decent deal. I still wasn’t a favorite to win it on any given day. However it seemed the correct price was somewhere in the region of 7 to 10/1.

So it went alright to say the least. I could have even wrapped it up in the first two hours. I think I had seven 10th to 18ths. Plus I lost 3 heads ups. I felt somewhat bad winning it about 5 hours into what could have ended up a 24 hour grind. The guy I bet felt somewhat hustled. But I obviously just ran absurdly well. It was nice setting up the tables the way I like having them rather than catering to the stream. Also just 25 tabling without talking felt like a breeze in comparison to 16 and chatting away. Can see from my overall 2s graph since this challenge started that I really just heater-ed it up unfortunately for my buddy Tyler.

I was wondering whether I should use the extra $400 I won as part of the bankroll challenge. However it didn’t really within the spirits of it. A little bit more on the degen side, and not how you should actually go about building a bankroll. So without that bonus it still leaves us at a healthy $1188. I’ve decided I’m not going to grind anymore until I’m back in Malta. I don’t want to have a huge day in 3rs or something and for it not to be live. I’ll be rocking the leprechaun suit on Sunday in celebration of Paddys Day on Tuesday. Plus the fact I’m going to miss the suit grizzy this Friday. Throw in the fact that the 9m Sunday Million is on and it all seems perfectly fitting. My microphone has also finally arrived in Malta so hopefully we’ll be good to go. This is the overall challenge graph below.

Going to wrap this up be giving a big shout out to Jaime Staples. Even with my 3rd world internet I tuned in like thousands other to watch them beautiful reg cheeks take down the Big 109 live on stream for $19k and change. Watching his genuine reaction to winning and how overwhelmed he was reminded me of why we all got into poker. For our love of the game. He’s going to absolute take off in the next few months. For now he’s still offering coaching for $100 and you can contact him @ pokerstaples@gmail.com. I would imagine supply and demand could cause a hike in price in the coming months so get iiiiit. Anyway Jaime is on course to take over the world let alone twitch. And he deserves every little bit of success he gets. Watch this space.

[KermitsDream]

I thought when clicked them pictures they'd open up to the imgur link. Can check out same post on my blog where can see pictures better @ https://easywithaces.wordpress.com/2...me-sweet-home/ and if have any questions I'll get back to them here.

[KermitsDream]

http://www.twitch.tv/easywithaces

Just going on for a few hours in my suit made famous by Kevins deep run @ EPT and having a few drinks...

[BrianN]

Guess it was going to happen to someone eventually!

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showpost.php?p=47265025&postcount=45

[KK82]

Yeah, I came home from work today and checked the twitch listings. Saw BigDog only had 37 viewers, so presumed he was only starting up or something. Clicked onto his stream and it was just a dark empty room. Just as I was about to switch off, he came into the room. I presumed he was about to fire up a session... And boy did he fire up a session!
Was pretty hilarious watching the chat go wild as he started browsing. One of the funnier things I've seen. He even started getting the tissues out before he cut the stream.
He's banned from Twitch at the moment now. Hopefully he gets back on though as he's one of the more entertaining streamers.

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[colm_leche]

Yeah, I came home from work today and checked the twitch listings. Saw BigDog only had 37 viewers, so presumed he was only starting up or something. Clicked onto his stream and it was just a dark empty room. Just as I was about to switch off, he came into the room. I presumed he was about to fire up a session... And boy did he fire up a session!
Was pretty hilarious watching the chat go wild as he started browsing. One of the funnier things I've seen. He even started getting the tissues out before he cut the stream.
He's banned from Twitch at the moment now. Hopefully he gets back on though as he's one of the more entertaining streamers.

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They say hindsight is 20:20, but maybe TWITCHING is an unfortunate choice of verb ...

[Strewelpeter]

Fuck him

He defended himself calling the video 'bonds
age' and 'simulated dominant sex' the title of the pic says
Chloroformed and forced. The guy is a fantasy rapist and he's trying to deny that in his pathetic effort to laugh it off.
Rape ain't ever funny.

[KK82]

Fuck him

He defended himself calling the video 'bonds
age' and 'simulated dominant sex' the title of the pic says
Chloroformed and forced. The guy is a fantasy rapist and he's trying to deny that in his pathetic effort to laugh it off.
Rape ain't ever funny.

Yeah, looks pretty awful to be fair, but just in his defence, he was just clicking on random untitled thumbnails, so wouldn't have actively sought that out/may not have even noticed the title.

[Closed_Account]

Fuck him

He defended himself calling the video 'bonds
age' and 'simulated dominant sex' the title of the pic says
Chloroformed and forced. The guy is a fantasy rapist and he's trying to deny that in his pathetic effort to laugh it off.
Rape ain't ever funny.

Huh? Many women fantasise about rape, it is not an entirely unusual fantasy in terms of both male and female sexuality.

[Flushdraw]

Fuck him

He defended himself calling the video 'bonds
age' and 'simulated dominant sex' the title of the pic says
Chloroformed and forced. The guy is a fantasy rapist and he's trying to deny that in his pathetic effort to laugh it off.
Rape ain't ever funny.

I think you're missing the point of his porn searching. He didn't stick in on for a chuckle

[Solskjaer]

Cliffs on this thread ? has rape/porn/twitching from 1st glance.

[mugsy]

Yeah, I came home from work today and checked the twitch listings. Saw BigDog only had 37 viewers, so presumed he was only starting up or something. Clicked onto his stream and it was just a dark empty room. Just as I was about to switch off, he came into the room. I presumed he was about to fire up a session... And boy did he fire up a session!
Was pretty hilarious watching the chat go wild as he started browsing. One of the funnier things I've seen. He even started getting the tissues out before he cut the stream.
He's banned from Twitch at the moment now. Hopefully he gets back on though as he's one of the more entertaining streamers.

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so you watched a guy beating off on cam. thats pretty gay bro

[Flushdraw]

Cliffs on this thread ? has rape/porn/twitching from 1st glance.

Thread is nothing to do with the incident. aside form they both use twitch.

bigdog is a regular, popular guy that plays poker while streaming live (well ~5 min delay). Seemingly he came in, sat down at the laptop not realising he was twitching (not even sure if that's what it's called) and started browsing some porn sites and watching some stuff while everyone who was watching could see him in action. As you can see from KK's screenshot, the setup is about 80% of the screen shows his laptop display, while you can see him in a box in the top right hand corner.

He's a bit trailer trash in the first place, so it's no surprise that he probably does this on a regular basis, just not usually when broadcasting!

[CHDad]

Quiet day eh.

[KK82]

so you watched a guy beating off on cam. thats pretty gay bro

It's only gay if you reciprocate.

Couldn't see anything anyway.