Slots streamers' passion for poker

For the past few weeks, it is not uncommon to see many online casino streamers indulging in another hobby, both live and online: poker! TeufeurS, Loopoo, Taour and the others, have taken a passion for the game of Texas Hold'em and are now sharing their sessions with their numerous viewers on their respective channels.

Taour and Seinhor, close links with poker

In the gambling industry, the different fields of activity cross over very quickly. From one discipline to another, there is only one step that streamers take with ease. But there are some for whom things come very naturally. This is the case for Seinhor. The Maltese resident discovered poker in 2007 before making it his profession for two years. After a long break, he decided in 2012 to train as a poker dealer and started working at the famous Aviation Club de France in Paris. In parallel to this activity, he started to share his sessions live on the Internet on Dailymotion and then launched himself as a full-time poker streamer before crossing the path of the game Clash Royale in 2016.

On Twitch, it was Belgian Taour who was one of the first to offer poker on his channel. Under the pseudonym Taour1030, he started streaming his online sessions in 2018, both tournaments and jackpot sit&go. A true poker enthusiast, Taour is a regular at the cash-game tables of Belgian casinos, including the Viage in Brussels, where he used to visit regularly until the health crisis. The Belgian extravagant occasionally offered poker streams during the lockdown before devoting himself almost exclusively to the online casino since his arrival in Malta at the end of 2020.

Kawaboumga, the professional apprentice

Having played Clash of Clans, Clash Royale and Fortnite, Kawaboumga is one of those who dropped everything to start playing on Twitch. Since the beginning of 2020, the young man has been alternating sessions on online casinos and long online poker games. It is thanks to this strategy game that the Bordeaux native has conquered a new audience, even allowing him to form a partnership for a few months with the number one French poker site Winamax. Now a Maltese resident, Kawaboumga has succeeded in combining online casino and poker on his channel since he has reached the level of YoH ViraL, the number one French poker streamer, in terms of audience on his poker sessions. The young man has also performed well in tournaments during his streams, increasing his legitimacy in the discipline.

TeufeurS and Loopoo, highstakes gamblers

It was through contact with professional poker player YoH ViraL that millionaires TeufeurS and Loopoo tried their hand at cards. Since arriving in Malta, TeufeurS has literally changed his life. The former truck driver has become a key figure in the Twitch slots scene and has surrounded himself with many entrepreneurs in the industry. In addition to his online casino sessions, the young man has started to stream his poker sessions, both online and live. He also made a vlog about a live tournament in Malta with YoH ViraL.

A gambler at heart, TeufeurS does not hesitate to play the most expensive games and to put his stack on the line quite often in sometimes improbable moves, to the delight of his viewers, eager for a show. Although a novice, the aggressive player achieved the feat of winning a World Series of Poker side tournament, a $210 bounty, on August 10, 2020, live on his Twitch channel.

The latest millionaire in the slots streamers clan, Loopoo has followed in the footsteps of his colleagues and has given in to the siren song of poker for only a few months. In contact with YoH ViraL and other streamers, a real passion was born for the young man who multiplies tournaments and cash-game games, online and live. Although he is a beginner, Loopoo does not hesitate to adopt an aggressive style and to stake very large sums of money, as he is already used to doing in his online casino sessions.

On February 28th, TeufeurS, Loopoo, Kawaboumga and YoH ViraL offered their respective viewers a multistream in which they played a tournament with a guaranteed prize pool of $10 million on the GGPoker site. A session that was a huge success with one of the best audiences for poker on Twitch.

The differences between online casino and poker

While it is easy to switch from one to the other, online casino and poker are two very different disciplines. Playing slots or roulette does not require any previous skill or work. It's just a game of luck where you hope to get lucky. Even if the player manages his bankroll correctly or makes the right mathematical decisions in blackjack and ultimate poker, the casino will still win in the long run.

This is not the case in poker: it is a game of strategy played not against the casino but against other players. The element of luck is present, of course, but it can be limited by learning the technique and adapting to one's opponents. With hard work, or intellectual ability, a player can become a long-term winner in any game format and at any financial limit. Nevertheless, and this is also the beauty of poker, a beginner player like Loopoo can on one hand or one game beat a professional player like YoH ViraL. Just like in the online casino, everyone has a chance!

The televised cash-game organised by YoH ViraL

Since the massive arrival of slot streamers in Malta, the bonds of friendship between your favorite streamers have naturally grown stronger. And there is no longer any need for a screen to indulge their passion. At the initiative of several of them, a private cash-game has been set up at the Dragonara Casino in Saint Julian's. Since the beginning of 2021, YoH ViraL and the coach of his platform SirFlo have been playing against the slot streamers TeufeurS, Loopoo, Taour, Ekanos, Kawaboumga, Seinhor etc. If at the beginning this game remained in the private domain, the participants started filming the game on their respective Twitch channels with their mobile phones.

But a week ago, YoH ViraL decided to call on his knowledge of the business to produce a real professional stream. Director, graphic designer, technical means..., the teams of the world vice-champion set up a televised table with revealed cards and slightly delayed broadcasting. It was a rather unprecedented highstakes cash-game game that we witnessed, featuring colorful characters, not hesitating to trash-talk each other and to send the chips to the middle without restraint. A great show for the thousands of viewers present simultaneously on the different Twitch channels of the players. After a premature interruption due to the positive COVID-19 test of one of the participants and the closure of the casinos in Malta, YoH Viral promised to do it again as soon as possible. To the delight of the audience, who were seduced by the format and the unfiltered show.