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This epicness kicks off today! Can't wait! LFG!

Hey @benheck block out your schedule in May for the Golden State Pinball festival. It’s legit the best show around & we’re gonna have your first born, Mr. Paxton there. I’d love to have you there too buddy! Message me 🤘

Hey @ThatKevinSmith if you’re in town already for your show tomorrow let’s go play some pinball! Lots of cool spots around Sacramento!

Ever wonder why YOU should play @ACR_POKER ‘s $8,000,000 Venom? Well here’s why!! It’s like Christmas in January 🎄! (Oh also can you name the movie inspiration?? 🤣) GOOD LUCK TODAY EVERYONE! @WPN_CEO

I WON A $2650 VENOM TICKET ON THE ACR SHOW!!! Shout out to @ACR_POKER & @Fattrain for the epic show If you aren't tuning into this stream every Monday, Wednesday & Friday you're missing out They gave away over $150k this year on the show! (and it's free to watch & win)

I’ve realized my new kitten is just like my ex-girlfriends. Super adorable, pretty sassy, a little spicy, and always trying to sit on my face.

Huge shoutout to @placerspca who helped connect me with my new partner in crime today. I’d say we chose…. Wisely ❤️

I'm going to be streaming tonights league games on the @ACR_POKER Twitch channel as I'm also raising money to help @Dayjahvue thru her battle with cancer. Honestly, I'm at a loss for words to say, but she's been a part of our community for a long time and I want to help.

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This might be the poker tweet of the year 😂

What a gift for 4th of July! If you have the bankroll hop on in and smash @WPN_CEO on the felt! #EasyMoney 😎

The exclusive “2K Club” jacket is reserved for people who have donated at least 2000 subs to the @ACR_POKER Twitch community! Only 2 in existence so far and one person just received theirs! Glad you like it buddy 🤘🔥

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.

Today is my birthday…. 36yrs on this spinning piece of land. 2days ago managed to ship my first ever WSOP Ring at @PlaygroundPoker 💍 845 runners… Heads Up took around 2 and half hours, finished up at 6am!! An absolute battle. Thanks @pokerorg for the pic and reporting!

Episode #600 of the @ACR_POKER Show goes live in 30min! Twitch.tv/acr_pkr

Dear @AbstractChain Please consider us for the Streaming Program! We would love to join the family! Why us? 1) 10 Years experience streaming @Twitch 2) We stream crypto, gaming, poker & more 3) 10 Years creating videos @YouTube 4) We've got a Hype Community (comments) 5) We're the official streamer for @HeroesofHoldem_ which would be great to share with Abstract users 6) @cryptodan19 got us into Abstract & We know it's going to be the next big thing 7) We want to be a part of that future : ) 8) I've got my Pengu stacked up, and I'm ready to stream & stack that XP 9) I stream full time and love it everyday Fingers crossed you'll welcome us in!🤞

When the hell did ‘ion’ replace ‘I don’t’ I’m either getting old, or people are getting stupider. Probably both 🤷‍♂️