
Originally Posted by
2MuchFreeTime
Victor has become a schadenfreude exhibition at my house. I’m surprised that for the most part with him taking the reigns, and no more pretty girl….his viewership has returned basically, after the initial post Sarah drop off. There are times he has more live viewers than any of the poker streams. Anyways, he’s been losing massive lately, 1,800-3,000 a stream. Victor is suffering, imo from significant gambling addiction at this point. In my prior life, I was an addiction specialist and though I didn’t deal with gambling addiction….I know an addict when I see one. (What I’m saying here is just for fun of course.) What is most notable to me at this point? He’s playing Ultimate Texas hold ‘em, and hits a straight flush, his biggest hand in months, there is basically no reaction…my observation he is getting bigger highs from losing then winning. He’s in practical ecstasy at this point when he runs bad and loses. (A small piece of course, is running bad on stream probably affirms his losses to Sarah, as I’m sure he’s dumping thousands of stream as well). According to some studies, some later stage gambling addicts had higher dopamine releases when they went on epic losing streaks vs winning a large hand, although they still aren’t sure why, and it isn’t the case across the board, one thing is that generally it happens when the addiction is pretty progressed…..which leads me to this…
The money he’s gaming with. I looked up his, paid subscriptions on YouTube and his donations, as well as what social blade estimates. (He’s losing subscribers again, apparently, down 2k this month according to social blade) . Anyways, this appears to be his and Sarah’s full time job. While, I do think the YouTube paid subscribers, the donations, the regular ads money and Patreon are giving him decent money….I don’t see how it can be enough to sustain them. Maybe someone can enlighten me. But in the last 10 days, he’s down 16-20k on the handful of live streams I just checked. Not to mention the fact, he’s gambling off stream. Does anyone know if he has a deal with the casino? I assume, he might be getting some percentage of his losses returned although I don’t know I’d he’s high enough stakes for that. Of course, they allow him to film, and I’m not sure if he gets paid as a casino promoter for them or it’s just we let you film/you give us the advertising.
Which leads me to the next thing, he’s losing so much that his comments are full of people believing the casino is cheating him lol. Normally the top comments on the post. Obviously, there’s a 0% chance they are cheating him. But the fact his followers, are convinced that he’s being cheated has to be negative for the casino, and the games he’s playing.
I saw today he was playing a table game. I’d never heard of, at a different casino, than the El Cortez. It was painfully obvious that the maker of that game, likely paid him to go play it and advertise. Just from the way he titles the video. I’ll admit, I’m extremely curious what something like that pays.
Anyways, it’s late and maybe I’ll write a bit more thoughtfully later….but I have to wonder at what point this ends up bad for El Cortez and is -EV for them. He’s not nice to the dealers, his viewers seem to think the game is rigged against him and they are cheating him (which gives me a great chuckle ngl), people see how quickly you can lose large sums of money because of his two hand play/bet sizes which “sours” (it’s killing me to use that word here) them to wanting to play (not so appealing to lose 3k in 20 minutes, def doesn’t make people want to run on down and play). But also, it’s clear he had a gambling problem, is there any chance this could lead to issues for the casino? It’s from my understanding that everyone who works at a casino is given training to be aware of problem gamblers. If they are paying him to be a rep, and he’s knowingly exhibiting signs of gambling addiction,(let’s say this hypothetically leads to financial ruin) is there any liability they could possibly have? My gut feeling is this partnership isn’t going to last much longer, tbh.
So yeah, that’s my essay. I thought for some reason Victor was my own little schadenfreude corner, so it’s interesting to see others talk about Victor and his capt—-friend, Sarah.