Originally Posted by
Dan Druff
Regarding the radio show, it's not a "delusion" that it gets thousands of listeners. It does. Even YouTube, which wasn't a listening option until late 2023, gets around 500 views per episode, and most of the people listen elsewhere. It's just mostly a different crowd than the forum.
I have a smaller audience than some other poker/gambling podcasts out there, but it's a big enough audience to where I deem it worth doing. If it were 50 listeners, I would have quit many years ago.
If you take a look at my Twitter, you'll see that I recently helped someone who got stiffed out of $87k by Bovada. This was an issue which impacted only a small group of people, but my highlighting of the matter on Twitter got 90,000 views in about 24 hours, and Bovada changed course and paid the guy. This was after about 5 weeks of refusing to pay him and refusing to even let him talk to a manager, where he was basically shut down and told "tough luck". I got him paid $87k within a day. Same thing with that girl Mandi who was almost stiffed out of $240k by Ignition in late 2022. They shut her down, until I made a big deal about it, and again they paid her within a day.
Why am I telling you guys this? Because obviously I do have a social media following and influence in the industry. When I choose to bring up a matter, I can bring public attention to it and get things resolved. People who lack that following or standing in the industry come to me for help, because often their attempts to bring attention to the matter fail. And I'm glad to help them, because I don't like seeing people get ripped off.
I could be perfectly happy shutting down this forum, or even just eliminating this section, and just continuing to do my thing on social media, which is where the action is nowadays.
I don't shut it down because I'm trying to hold together this community, even with the social criticism and sometimes ostracism that comes with some of the content I allow here.
But again, if you think I'm keeping this forum up just to stroke my ego to a few old right wing men showing me admiration, you're always welcome to go elsewhere.
For those who appreciate the effort I put into this forum and site, thank you, and I appreciate you back.