Not strictly poker related, but this blew all over internet - one of the most popular Twitch.tv streamers, Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris, played online blackjack earlier this week, using a betting site that features live dealers. In the very last hand of his betting spree he decided to place a maximum bet of $5,000, going with a simple "all-in or nothing".
The stream was peaking at around 45,000 viewers when the key hand happened and ended the stream shortly after it was over. It's been a real roller-coaster for Sodapoppin, who's been playing live blackjack for last 2 weeks on Twitch.tv - his streaming numbers went up by huge margin during that time, to the point his stream single-handedly put Blackjack as the top 3 most popular game watched on Twitch.tv during his streaming sessions. However, we are not sure if that will still compensate all the cash he lost. Hopefully Morris learned his lesson and won't be trying to win the money back playing Blackjack.
Watch the video here (the mentioned hand starts at 2:10 mark):
i don't think he cares or mind, he's free-rolling. He's probably the one, or one of the people who's made the most money on twitch, remember a few years ago he reached 5k subs, and rumours was that he was banking 25k monthly of streaming with donations, sometimes much more. And has one of the sickest twitch deals. He's rolling in dough xD
think it's just an act, a good one, but an act. Why act like that, when one viewer have given him over 100.000 dollar in donation lol, and he'll make it back within a week of streaming lol
ofc he is acting... i mean for all the twitch streamers "reality TV" is basically the role model and how much of these reality shows are faked? 100%!
they make up stories and stuff all the time to get more viewers
not for me to judge how others want to spend their money, but holy crap. Here I was thinking i would need to be paid to watch this kind of thing. different strokes indeed
edit: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-31064770
son of oil baron theory fits occam's razor i suppose. though is it at all plausible the guy is actually a twitch marketing stunt? The story seems to have made waves in mainstream media, not bad for expenditure in the low 6 figures.
It wasnt just him that got 50k there was 1 more guy and another got 30k by the same guy
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traxamillion United States. May 22 2015 19:34. Posts 10468
Lol wtf 50k twitch donations? What am i doing actually grinding? Shoulda hopped on the bandwagon of streaming bullshit and acting like a tool a long time ago. I could see kids donating to their hero's or something. But what 18 yo+ male is gay enough to just give away his money to some other young male over the computer who has mildly entertained him? Weird
On May 22 2015 18:34 traxamillion wrote:
Lol wtf 50k twitch donations? What am i doing actually grinding? Shoulda hopped on the bandwagon of streaming bullshit and acting like a tool a long time ago. I could see kids donating to their hero's or something. But what 18 yo+ male is gay enough to just give away his money to some other young male over the computer who has mildly entertained him? Weird
for every lottery winning tool you do hear about.....
On May 22 2015 18:34 traxamillion wrote:
Lol wtf 50k twitch donations? What am i doing actually grinding? Shoulda hopped on the bandwagon of streaming bullshit and acting like a tool a long time ago. I could see kids donating to their hero's or something. But what 18 yo+ male is gay enough to just give away his money to some other young male over the computer who has mildly entertained him? Weird
supposedly an UAE prince of some sort, his breakfast probably costs more than 50k
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bigredhoss Cook Islands. May 22 2015 21:55. Posts 8648
but he kept giving more smaller ones, i think he's given around 100k, might have been reckful he gave 100k to, but i think he gave that to both, to lazy to check lol
On May 22 2015 18:34 traxamillion wrote:
Lol wtf 50k twitch donations? What am i doing actually grinding? Shoulda hopped on the bandwagon of streaming bullshit and acting like a tool a long time ago. I could see kids donating to their hero's or something. But what 18 yo+ male is gay enough to just give away his money to some other young male over the computer who has mildly entertained him? Weird
It gets pretty crazy when it's new expansions of wow, he's a Waracraft Hero or something, rly good to lol.
He would basically just sit, and comment and thank, or make jokes, every few seconds, struggling to keep up with all the donations and sub, just sitting there saying thanks and eat my dick for hours on end everyday!!
Sometimes they'd do these sub trains, where he'd get 50 subs in 20 minutes n stuff, common occurence lol
On May 22 2015 13:14 punix wrote:
ofc he is acting... i mean for all the twitch streamers "reality TV" is basically the role model and how much of these reality shows are faked? 100%!
they make up stories and stuff all the time to get more viewers
really? i don't think he's acting here although he is a childish drama queen
if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN
Hate the game not the player. If it was that easy to make money streaming on twitch everyone would be doing it. I've tried commentating myself playing games and poker and it really does become quite hard, you end up repeating yourself or saying nonsensical things
On May 23 2015 00:54 Rinny wrote:
Hate the game not the player. If it was that easy to make money streaming on twitch everyone would be doing it. I've tried commentating myself playing games and poker and it really does become quite hard, you end up repeating yourself or saying nonsensical things
yeah this.. if its so easy just go do it and become rich.
and regardless of what he makes I dont think he doesnt care about losing 5k especially when you have an A and the dealer shows a 6 lol
People that send him 100.000$, is that the same kind of people that send money to Nigeria scammers ?
:D
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bigredhoss Cook Islands. May 23 2015 13:29. Posts 8648
i guess we'd have to ask his parents if they send money to Nigerian scammers
Truck-Crash Life
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chris United States. May 23 2015 15:22. Posts 5503
people seriously watch this? how shitty are their lives that they have to tune into this tool? i'd rather blow my brains out than watch him for 30 minutes
hurrr durrrr i'm a baby boomer and i prefer watching tools get paid millions to roleplay superheroes and wizards on my television box!! whats wrong with this generation of kids!! hurr durr
I wish one of your guys had children if I could kick them in the fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you can feel my pain because thats the pain I have waking up everyday -- Mike Tyson
On May 23 2015 10:51 VanDerMeyde wrote:
People that send him 100.000$, is that the same kind of people that send money to Nigeria scammers ?
they are called whales; same as in poker.
I wish one of your guys had children if I could kick them in the fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you can feel my pain because thats the pain I have waking up everyday -- Mike Tyson
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CrownRoyal United States. May 23 2015 18:54. Posts 11385
On May 23 2015 15:41 uiCk wrote:
hurrr durrrr i'm a baby boomer and i prefer watching tools get paid millions to roleplay superheroes and wizards on my television box!! whats wrong with this generation of kids!! hurr durr
On May 23 2015 15:41 uiCk wrote:
hurrr durrrr i'm a baby boomer and i prefer watching tools get paid millions to roleplay superheroes and wizards on my television box!! whats wrong with this generation of kids!! hurr durr
haha +1
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JohnnyBologna United States. May 24 2015 08:06. Posts 1401
50k donation... probably triggered some sort of domino effect upon the nerds as well.
' hey someone donated 50k lets pour our money into this guy, hes a god.'
Just do whats right
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Big_Rob_isback United States. May 24 2015 11:46. Posts 211
There is actually a South Park episode that deals with live commenting streams that kids do. An example is a new Call of Duty came out, and Kyle's little brother wanted to just sit like a vegetable and watch somebody stream and comment about playing the new game when Kyle just bought the game.
I think its a huge fad, at least I hope it is. It is kind of interesting for like a week. I mean how fucked up are kids getting when playing a game like WoW is called not participating in life, but then it turns into them just sitting there watching somebody stream playing WoW for hours ! Fucking crazy.
On May 24 2015 07:06 JohnnyBologna wrote:
50k donation... probably triggered some sort of domino effect upon the nerds as well.
' hey someone donated 50k lets pour our money into this guy, hes a god.'
well the rumors are that the high donations were faked, and other streamers were also in it and faked donations which gained them popularity and curious people would tune into their streams wondering who these guys were and how they got such high donations.
On May 24 2015 07:06 JohnnyBologna wrote:
50k donation... probably triggered some sort of domino effect upon the nerds as well.
' hey someone donated 50k lets pour our money into this guy, hes a god.'
well the rumors are that the high donations were faked, and other streamers were also in it and faked donations which gained them popularity and curious people would tune into their streams wondering who these guys were and how they got such high donations.
yeah iam quite certain that most super high money donations are faked.. just recently i watched summit1g (CSGO player) streaming some h1z1 (basically because i wanted to get an impression of h1z1) and some1 donated him 20k and he went crazy about it. little later that guy donated anohter 10k and kept donating at least 5 figures. summit got him in teamspeak and he said he is a pokerplayer from nl and that this is not a lot of money for him. after several days he was messaged that the donations were blocked by paypal for security reasons and he actually never got the money. summit talked back to the dutch guy and he said something that there are problems with moving that amount of money from his bank account (which is a super lol excuse.. you can easily move money in between bank accounts/paypal/e-wallets in europe. at least for some lower 5 figures maybe you will run into higher security checks when you reach the 6 figures).
You guys are just a little too harsh on the idea of streaming, lol. It's entertainment.. as simple as that. The more entertaining a broadcaster is the larger audience and successful they'll become. The donations these guys get are pretty crazy tho imo. Also if you're interested in a particular game (especially competitively) you are able to watch and learn from some of the best players if you check out their stream.
if poker is dangerous to them i would rank sports betting as a Kodiak grizzly bear who smells blood after you just threw a javelin into his cub - RaiNKhAN
its same shit as watching grown men kick a ball aound for two hours while 75 year old dudes comment on their play.
I wish one of your guys had children if I could kick them in the fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you can feel my pain because thats the pain I have waking up everyday -- Mike Tyson
also, what makes live content entrainement (twitch/youtube/streaming site) more apealing then conventional media is the direct interaction (chat) you have with the broadcaster. it might seem trivial, but it's the main reason twitch has such strong and loyal ($$$) following, and main reason why conventional media is trying hard to integrate social media on their programming; because they know the key is the interaction of the viewer with the content.
I wish one of your guys had children if I could kick them in the fucking head or stomp on their testicles so you can feel my pain because thats the pain I have waking up everyday -- Mike Tyson
To everyone who watches sports? Wtf is wrong with you? Why are you watching football when you can go out and play it? Idk, same logic.
Last edit: 24/05/2015 20:19
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TalentedTom Canada. May 25 2015 14:58. Posts 20070
On May 24 2015 19:19 Trav94 wrote:
To everyone who watches sports? Wtf is wrong with you? Why are you watching football when you can go out and play it? Idk, same logic.
cause its cold outside
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light not our darkness that most frightens us and as we let our own lights shine we unconsciously give other people permision to do the same
Not strictly poker related, but this blew all over internet - one of the most popular Twitch.tv streamers, Chance “Sodapoppin” Morris, played online blackjack earlier this week, using a betting site that features live dealers. In the very last hand of his betting spree he decided to place a maximum bet of $5,000, going with a simple "all-in or nothing".
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