(*1*)A penchant for low stakes, some savvy play on the desk, and a deep understanding of YouTube manufacturing and analytics just lately helped the Wolfgang Poker channel attain greater than 1 million subscribers.
Alexander “Wolfgang” Seibt started the account in 2002, however using YouTube Shorts and catering to those that desire some lower-limit poker has helped vault the channel to the top amongst poker vloggers and streamers. The channel grew to become the primary to achieve the seven-figure subscriber mark.
“We have been on a speed run over the past few months and we just recently hit a million subscribers, which is surreal to say,” Seibt stated final week to mark the event.
YouTube Poker Chart Topper
For the feat of incomes these subscriber numbers, Seibt obtained a commemorative plaque from YouTube, which he confirmed off whereas detailing his rise to vlogging success. He had initially hoped to make $300 to freeroll his native on line casino money sport buy-in, and ended up far surpassing his expectations.
“I had no idea that the journey would take me this far. It’s honestly just crazy to say that we’ve hit a million subscribers.”
Click right here to learn extra about Alex ‘Wolfgang’ Seibt.
YouTube started rewarding content material creators who utilized the Shorts characteristic extra in an effort to compete with TikTookay. These movies are only one minute or much less in size, and with low-stakes poker arms, Wolfgang was in a position to seize an growing viewers over the past 12 months. As a end result, lots of his fellow vloggers have additionally turned to shorts to spice up their numbers.
Wolfgang Poker now tops the YouTube subscriber numbers of different poker vlogging heavyweights akin to Daniel Negreanu (783,000), Brad Owen (701,000), Doug Polk (400,000), Ethan ‘Rampage’ Yau (270,000), the NextGen Poker guys (206,000), Andrew Neeme (192,000), Jonathan Little (174,000), Joey Ingram (153,000), Mariano Grandoli (147,000), Jeff Gross (118,000), Bart Hanson (91,000), Lex Ozias (58,000), Jeff Boski (56,000), and Johnnie ‘Vibes’ Moreno (55,000). (Note: These numbers don’t depend different platforms akin to Twitch, the place numerous on-line poker streamers have additionally developed big followings.)
Wolfgang additionally has greater than double the YouTube subscriber depend of a few of the hottest poker excursions and on line casino money sport streams, akin to World Poker Tour (565,000), PokerGO (514,000), Hustler Casino Live (301,000), GGPoker (261,000), Bally Live Poker (218,000), Triton Poker (203,000), CelebrationPoker Live (176,000), and The Lodge Live (152,000).
In truth, the one poker YouTube channel with extra subscribers than Wolfgang is on-line poker large PokerStars, with 1.72 million. Keep in thoughts that PokerStars is alleged to have greater than 50 million registered customers general, and has posted practically 4,000 movies to their account since beginning in 2009. Seibt, in the meantime, hit 1 million subscribers on lower than 500 movies, beginning ten years later.
As a former editor of a preferred YouTuber, Seibt introduced a deep manufacturing background to the operation. The Dallas, Texas based mostly professional initially went viral with a video displaying him win a $1,000 pot with pocket kings. The hand attracted greater than 100 million views throughout all Wolfgang’s media channels, and he’s since totaled practically 600 million views general.
In his current video, Seibt and his editor Lucas took a take a look at a few of the channel’s current traits, which included greater than 88 million views in per week and 194 million within the final 90 days.
Some Play, But A Lot Of Work
While poker vlogging could seem like enjoyable, the complete manufacturing includes loads of work. The course of is far more than simply rolling right into a on line casino and enjoying poker.
Wolfgang shoots b-roll (additional footage) and property photographs when he’s away from the desk, takes notes on particular person arms, and far more. He needed to rent a full-time editor, with Seibt heading to casinos and card rooms a number of instances per week. He additionally makes use of two telephones and a video digicam to seize the motion and the scene. It could also be plenty of work, however the effort seems to be resonating with viewers.
With a capability to draw a more moderen, youthful viewers to poker, Wolfgang has attracted advertisers past YouTube and lots of card rooms additionally now pay to have him play at their amenities. As he reaches a million subscribers, Seibt is happy to be working exhausting at one thing he loves.
“The money mixed with the freedom mixed with me not having to work a normal job is always enticing,” Seibt instructed Card Player.
