By Staff
On September 16th Hustler Casino Live announced its YouTube channel had been “suspended” and the show would air on Twitch – for about a week.
“We had an issue with our YouTube channel where we’re suspended for a week (we did nothing wrong and we can’t get in touch with anyone)”
“Watch us here this week: https://www.twitch.tv/hustlercasinolivepoker“
“We’ll be back on YouTube next week hopefully…”
The three shows aired on HCL’s Twitch channel (this past week), which currently has 2,000 subscribers, racked up a combined total of approximately 23,000 views. It’s not clear how much revenue the show’s producers (Ryan Feldman and Nick Vertucci) lost as a result of the questionable suspension.
On Monday, HCL contributor Dana Craven posted on X (formerly Twitter), the show was back on HCL’s YouTube channel – which currently has over 360,000 subscribers.
“After a week-long “timeout,” Hustler Casino Live is back on YouTube with the fourth installment of their epic signature event: Super High Stakes Week (SHSW4). On Monday, September 23rd, 2024, the week-long-event will kick off with Max Pain Monday at 4pm PST followed by the first episode of SHSW4 – starting at 8:30 pm PST.”
Read the report here.
Hustler Casino Live, which launched just over 3-years ago, is known for loose-action play, presented in a high-stakes poker drama format, which leads to additional coverage of the show’s most controversial “Reality TV-style” characters.
Some have suggested high-stakes poker shows have a history of not being on the up and up, insinuating players aren’t really playing at the stakes displayed, have “pieces” of each other, and some hands are staged for views.
There have been hands on HCL that one could make the case, were staged to draw attention to the show, but HCL producers adamantly deny this has ever occurred on their show.
The fact it’s been alleged, speaks volumes for the exciting action displayed each week.
Its viewers, judging by the show’s overwhelming success, can’t seem to get enough of the drama and “non-GTO” play.
In addition to the “insane” action, HCL is also famous, or “infamous”, for one of the biggest cheating scandals in poker history.
This coming Sunday (Sept 29) will mark the 2-year anniversary of the controversial “J-4 hand”, a hand that took place between high-stakes pro Garrett Adelstein and amateur Robbi Jade Lew.
The scandal, picked up by high-profile MSM outlets, including the L.A. Times and DailyMail, thrust poker’s dark side into the spotlight.
Despite HCL announcing in a press release: “Cybersecurity, Private Investigation Firms and Hustler Casino Found No Evidence of Wrongdoing in Controversial J4 Hand”, one of poker’s most trusted experts, Doug Polk, concluded “Most people are idiots” and there’s a “90%” chance cheating occured.
A follow up survey by Polk revealed an overwhelming majority of the “poker community” agreed.
One thing is for certain, HCL is a tremendous success no matter the route it took to the top.
Did Robbi Jade Lew cheat?
Was “J-4” click-bait?
