The top poker streamers play from across the world. While most are already well-known professional poker players, a few faces on the scene built their fame through different avenues. Other streamers aim to offer help and guidance to their communities. Here are the most popular streamers in 2024.
Elias Gutierrez
Elias Gutierrez, also known as ZerosPoker, is the most loved and enjoyed poker streamer. This high-stakes Spanish poker player currently resides in Tokyo, Japan, and averages nearly 5,000 viewers per stream, awarding him the number one spot.
2019 marked the start of his content-creating journey on YouTube and Twitch streaming platforms, and in that short time, Gutierrez has seen his fair share of online success. April 2021 was his most notable win after bagging the SCOOP title in a live casino poker tournament on PokerStars — a purse worth almost $175k, using his username SinKarma. Gutierrez plays with several online clients, such as GGPoker and PokerStars.
Lex Veldhuis
Second on our list is a veteran in the online poker scene, Lex Veldhuis, known as LexVeldhuis, to his streaming community. Lex currently represents PokerStars but began his competitive journey as a professional StarCraft player.
After a meeting with fellow StarCraft player and online poker professional Bertrand “ElkY” Grospellier, Veldhuis decided to transition to poker and hasn’t looked back. With an average stream view count of around 3,300 and a monthly buy-in of $40k, it’s no surprise that Veldhuis has stayed with poker.
Veldhuis is one of the highest earners in the poker scene, with over $700,000 in live earnings and his largest score coming in 2009, when he bagged himself a 7th-place finish for the prize of $277k from a $40k buy-in. Most of Veldhuis’s winnings and fame come from his online poker exploits, generating over $3.3 million through his sponsor site, PokerStars.
Andrey Golubev
When it comes to Twitch poker streamers, one of the best has to be Andrey Golubev, known as DreadzTV. This being said, poker isn’t his main form of content. Previously a professional DOTA2 player, Golubev still spends a lot of his streaming schedule playing his former profession.
Lately, Golubev’s streaming schedule pattern has shifted. He now focuses more on poker, with a large proportion of this gameplay coming through the GGPoker skin PokerOK. With his different streaming choices, he reaches an average viewer count of 2,720.
Benjamin Rolle
As the founder of the poker training site Raise your Edge, Benjamin Rolle, or bencb789 as he is known, streams between two worlds, captivating both players and the industry. Using Twitch as his main streaming platform, Rolle showcases his immense poker skills online via the virtual felt, runs simulations, and provides training for beginners looking to sharpen their skills.
Originally from Austria, Rolle was once an anonymous player who used to crush high-stakes online tables under the handle bencb789.
Since revealing himself to the world, Rolle has a little over 100k in live earnings, but when it comes to online wins, he has earned millions, including almost taking home $1.2 million from winning a SCOOP super high-roller poker tournament in 2016. With an average viewer count of 2,600, Rolle continues to attract views from all over the online poker landscape.
Kevin Martin
Known for his quality poker playing and high energy at the table, Kevin Martin is a familiar face in the online poker world, bringing liveliness to his streams. Born and continuing to play in Canada, poker is Martin’s second career, being more widely known for his two appearances and one win on Canada’s version of Big Brother.
For now, Martin’s reality show life is behind Him, and he is focusing all his efforts on poker streaming, and for good reason. Martin continues to get more and more views with each stream, currently averaging 1,353 views. While Martin has focused a lot of his pursuits on online poker tables for GGPoker, he has not been slacking on the live felts either.
Regarding live earnings, he has earned over $360k, but his biggest claim to poker fame happened just before the global pandemic began when he went on a massive run in his home province of Alberta, Canada. Across 2018 and 2019, Martin reached the final table of nearly every game he registered in the Calgary poker series. Here, he racked up five wins for a combined purse total of more than $170,000 Canadian, equating to USD 135,000.
Online Poker Streaming Success
Poker continues to attract more and more viewers across different platforms, with Twitch being the most popular choice for many live streamers due to the vast outreach the platform delivers. Content creators are looking for other avenues to build their following on the virtual felt, from charismatic performances and reactions to training people so they can develop their skills. With the industry’s ever-increasing popularity, we will surely see more online poker streamers become rising stars soon.
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