Poker Twitch Discussion

Play to your own strength. Whether poker or any other game, the best advice I've heard from streamers, to other new streamers, is to 'be yourself.'

For one, being yourself is going to be the easiest. You don't have to prepare material or rehearse. You'll never be at a loss for words, run out of script or look like you are 'changing.' You'll never have to worry about getting tired of acting, worry about losing viewers if you want to change, etc.

So, the hard part - what if 'you' are not entertaining? You won't know that for a while. It takes a long time to get a stream off the ground. It takes approximately a year, conventional wisdom, for someone to either find an audience or know that what they are doing just won't bring an audience in. If you are super active in social media and pimping yourself then you can shorten that time some.

If 'you' aren't entertaining, but are determined to make streaming work, then you may find it easier to actively try to change yourself than to write a script. Truth is, most of us aren't consummate actors and between playing, editing, streaming, uploading etc. you won't have time to write scripts.

Ask yourself this though - are you a poker player first and streamer second or do you want to be a streamer first? Part of the reason that JCarver is so successful is that he thinks of himself as a streamer/broadcaster first. He's been working on that aspect of himself for years. He says it himself all the time, he's not a poker pro and he isn't playing to make rent. He's a streamer and poker is just his content. If that isn't you, then stop sweating the viewer count and put streaming into proper perspective - it's just an extra thing that doesn't really relate to your main interest, poker.

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