Poker vlogging has grown up. The format Andrew Neeme started in a Las Vegas card room in 2016 now runs on million-subscriber channels, full-time editors and daily uploads through the World Series of Poker. The best poker vloggers in 2026 are Wolfgang Poker, Brad Owen, Daniel Negreanu, Ethan "Rampage" Yau, Andrew Neeme, Mariano Grandoli and Lexy Gavin-Mather. Between them they cover $1/$2 cash games, bracelet runs, high-stakes streams and the daily reality of playing professionally.
The audience has consolidated around a small group. A few of the names that defined the first wave have stopped filming altogether, and this list reflects who is actually posting now.
What Makes a Poker Vlog Worth Watching?
A vlog is a video blog, and a poker vlog is a running record of a player's sessions, filmed by the player. The strongest channels do three things consistently: they show the losing sessions alongside the winning ones, they explain the reasoning behind a decision instead of only showing the result, and they upload on a schedule the audience can rely on.
Production quality helps. Honesty about results is what builds the subscriber count.
Across the best channels, you'll typically find:
- Live cash game sessions, from $1/$2 up to high stakes
- Tournament runs, including full World Series campaigns
- Hand breakdowns explaining the thinking in real time
- Travel and behind-the-scenes footage from the circuit
- Meet-up games, where viewers play alongside the vlogger
1 – Wolfgang Poker
Alexander "Wolfgang" Seibt runs the biggest vlog in poker. He built the channel filming $1/$2 at his local casino, became the first poker vlogger to pass one million YouTube subscribers, and has since gone beyond 1.5 million subscribers and a billion total views.
Seibt worked as an editor for another YouTuber before turning to poker, and the production background shows. He was also early to YouTube Shorts, using sub-60-second hands with on-screen graphics to reach an audience well outside the poker world. Several other vloggers followed him into the format.
The channel has grown with him. Seibt now plays high stakes on streams including Hustler Casino Live and at Las Vegas card rooms, though the low-stakes everyman approach that built the audience is still the core of the channel.
2 – Brad Owen
Brad Owen posted "Poker Vlog Episode 1" in December 2016, filming a $1/$2 game at Red Rock in Las Vegas. It was a real session from a real grinder, and that framing became his calling card.
Nearly a decade later the channel sits at around 798,000 subscribers, more than 237 million views and over 400 videos. Owen is a co-owner of The Lodge Card Club in Texas alongside Neeme and Doug Polk, and his recorded live tournament earnings stand at $1,249,112.
What separates his vlogs is the explanation. Owen talks through why he took a line, not simply whether it worked, which is why the channel functions as a learning resource as well as entertainment. He's also widened his range: a recent vlog followed him to a final table in a mixed-game TORSE event at the 2026 World Series.
3 – Daniel Negreanu
Negreanu is the most decorated player on this list and one of the best poker players of all time, with more than $50 million in live tournament earnings. He won his eighth bracelet in July 2026, taking the $100,000 PLO High Roller for $2.2 million.
His vlogs run seasonally. Every summer he documents his WSOP campaign with near-daily episodes covering his preparation, the events he enters, hand breakdowns and whatever controversy the series has produced that day. For anyone who can't be in Las Vegas, it's the fastest way to follow the series through the eyes of someone in it.
The channel now carries more than 865,000 subscribers and 151 million views, supported by streaming sessions and his podcast between series. Production is polished, and Negreanu has a team behind him, but the daily WSOP grind is still the draw.
4 – Ethan "Rampage" Yau
Yau started filming in 2018 in New England card rooms and built a following of more than 350,000 subscribers on an unusually honest premise: he shows the punts. His willingness to fire a big bluff and leave the camera rolling when it fails is the reason the channel took off, and it draws steady criticism from his own viewers.
The results have caught up with the audience. Yau has passed $3 million in live poker tournament cashes, holds two WSOP bracelets after beating Adrian Mateos heads-up for the WSOP Online Hybrid $5,000 Championship in 2026, and has added two World Poker Tour titles and five WSOP Circuit rings.
He announced a full commitment to tournament poker for 2026 and reached two final tables in the first four events of the PGT Kickoff series. He also remains a regular in streamed cash games.
5 – Andrew Neeme
Neeme invented the modern poker vlog. He began posting in October 2016, filming his life as a mid-stakes cash game player in Las Vegas, and the honesty of the format built an audience that every vlogger since has copied. He also popularised the meet-up game, announcing on social media where he'd be playing so viewers could join him.
Born in Michigan, Neeme worked in the music business before online poker took over, then moved to Las Vegas for the live cash games. He first played real-money live poker at the Hustler Casino in Los Angeles, a room he returned to on camera years later. He won Vlogger of the Year at the Global Poker Awards in 2018 and 2019.
He's now based in Austin and co-owns The Lodge Card Club. The channel, which sits at around 192,000 subscribers, went quiet for a long stretch while the card room took priority. He returned to vlogging in April 2026, with the first new episode filmed at the Bellagio.
6 – Mariano Grandoli
Mariano is one of the original YouTube vloggers and the most cinematic of them. Each episode is built as a story, narrated calmly over footage that mixes poker with travel, and the editing is closer to a documentary than a session recap.
His channel has grown past 200,000 subscribers, and he posts an annual results video breaking down his year at the tables. He climbed from low-stakes grinding to high-stakes streams, and is the biggest all-time winner on Hustler Casino Live, with a recorded net profit of roughly $2.86 million across more than 1,000 hours on the show.
For viewers who find most vlogs samey, Mariano's storytelling is the differentiator.
7 – Lexy Gavin-Mather
Gavin-Mather is a professional player, coach and author as well as a vlogger, and she films the parts of the grind most channels skip: mindset, study routines and the work of staying competitive as the games get tougher.
She has more than a decade of consistent World Series results, including a deep run in the 2018 Main Event, and around $890,000 in recorded live tournament earnings. Her biggest score came in the $25,000 Super Main Event at WSOP Paradise, and she was named Top Female Player of the Year in 2020.
She's also part of the WSOP's vlogger programme, which sends creators to international stops they might not otherwise play. That has taken her content beyond Las Vegas to series in Europe and the Caribbean.
What Happened to the Original Vlogging Class?
Several names that dominated poker vlogging in the early 2020s have moved on or moved sideways. If you're looking for them:
- Joey Ingram revived the Poker Life Podcast in 2024 and still lands major interviews, but his output arrives in bursts and the format is a podcast, not a vlog.
- Jeff Gross has shifted almost entirely to The Flow Show, an interview podcast now past 200 episodes covering poker players, founders and athletes.
- Kristy Arnett Moreno stepped away from poker vlogging to work as a writer and filmmaker. Her channel now hosts short films, and she's been writing a memoir.
- Johnnie "Vibes" Moreno has been largely inactive, with his channel sitting at around 55,000 subscribers.
The pattern is consistent. Vlogging at a competitive level takes filming, editing, thumbnails and a release schedule on top of playing, and the creators still standing are the ones who built teams around the channel.
Key Takeaways
- A poker vlog is a player-filmed video record of their own sessions, and the best ones show losses as readily as wins.
- Wolfgang Poker leads the field with over 1.5 million subscribers and more than a billion views.
- Brad Owen and Daniel Negreanu are the two other channels approaching or past 800,000 subscribers.
- Andrew Neeme created the format in 2016 and returned to posting in April 2026 after a long break.
- Ethan "Rampage" Yau, Mariano Grandoli and Lexy Gavin-Mather round out the current field, covering aggressive tournament play, cinematic storytelling and the study side of the game.
- Joey Ingram, Jeff Gross, Kristy Arnett Moreno and Johnnie Vibes have all moved away from regular poker vlogging.
