"The most absurd hand you will ever see," Rob described Phil Ivey's famous all-in 5-bet on the flop against Paul Jackson.

The quads-in-quads hand between Toby Lewis and Andrew Robl has received almost 200,000 views.

The unique reaction of Yevgeny Timoshenko gives the distribution a special charm. Shock, with a tinge of outrage and disgust at the mathematical improbability?

Olivier Busquet's epic comeback against Sven Reichardt at the final table of the $100k Super High Roller has racked up nearly a million views.

Rob also recalled Ivan Freites' dirty angle shooting against Evgeniy Yanait.

Sara Shafak's elegant bluff.

Phil Hellmuth's total bad luck against amateur Ernest Wiggins.

All of these classic hands are well known to poker fans.

Rob Kuhn seemed to have struck gold, but then he encountered the harsh scowl of capitalism. He was forced to delete numerous videos. Those affected included clips from the WSOP and other series, copyrighted by PokerGO.

"Does ACR have a new strategy? Just spamming old hands they don't have rights to on Twitter?" DJ McKinnon asked under one of the deleted videos. ( Ed. – Rob Kuhn is one of the poker room's many ambassadors )

Rob's tweet views skyrocketed when he started posting videos

"Well, yeah, it's obvious your goal is to draw attention to the game," McKinnon attached a screenshot showing Rob adding his promo code for registering on ACR under one of the popular clips.

"I am an ambassador after all," Kun began to justify himself. "But I post the giveaways out of nostalgia and because they generate a lot of interest."

After that, Rob stopped abusing advertising, but it didn’t save him.

David Lappin added fuel to the fire with a humorous photo :

– The ACR ambassadors working out who gets to post which old PokerGO clip. 😜

"Hate to see it," PokerGo CEO Brent Hanks said ironically, accompanying a screenshot of a deleted video from another ACR ambassador, Jeff Boesky.

A little later, Brent explained the company's position in detail :

1.) PokerGO has become very chill with content, especially with friends of the brand(s). Which includes-
-players in our events
-sponsors obviously
-larger brands who far exceed our reach
-other

2.) Majority of folks take the professional approach and reach out, and we work out a fair content agreement.

3.) Others do nothing. Cockroaches. They rip content for their own personal gain and shill promo codes for another entity, while also claiming they are trying to “grow the game.”

4.) I would encourage all major operators who pay millions of dollars to produce their owned and operated content to jump on board and come after these content cockroaches.

Thank you for listening to my Ted Talk.

Rob Kuhn didn't like this retort and let it be known:

Fun fact,

Before I started posting nostalgic PokerGO clips you guys posted exactly ZERO old clips as of this year.

Since I started posting you guys have posted 13.

I could have just pulled the videos from my own youtube where you guys have given me permission to post.

I didn't though, 0 edits-watermark left in tact, millions of views for both pokergo and poker as a whole.

But sure let's gate keep people from watching poker or spreading any views to the game.

Basically the PokerGO motto anyway.

Fuck off with the gatekeeping bullshit.

"Yes Rob, we will f*** right off, as will you. The poker world is in a better place without you posting content."

"Hanks, how is the poker world better without people posting content? The hands Rob has been posting are largely lost to time, buried behind a paywall, hidden from the view of poker fans," JeffBNT asked in the comments. "It has been refreshing getting to revisit these hands. But please, define the logic."

"Nothing is hidden, Jeff," Hanks pointed out fairly. "He’s taking the majority from our YouTube channel which is 100% free."

Hanks demonstrated which reposts won't result in a copyright complaint:

Rob is also smart enough to know that THIS is a proper way to post content that he doesn’t own. Notice the content is clearly “From PokerGO.”

Actually wait, Rob definitely isn’t smart enough to know this.

Fucking civilians these days man 🤦‍♂️

Kuhn responded with something vague, something along the lines of, if there were a convenient technical option, he would have no problem tagging PokerGo, and then continued:

-Also, there is a huge POKERGO logo in the upper right corner, I think viewers will guess whose content this is.

In any case, I have already deleted all the PokerGO clips, I don’t want to take this matter to lawyers.

But for a CEO, you're behaving extremely unprofessionally. Damn copycats...

"Looks like I read you perfectly. It's not for nothing that I've always played by instinct. Try posting content for WPT or PokerStars ; I'm sure they'll appreciate your views on 'game development.' Clearly, you weren't pursuing any selfish goals. Good luck!"

“Nooooo,” replied WPTGold creative director and Lodge co-owner Thomas Keeling to the last sentence.

Kuhn posted a conversation with him in which Keeling asks him to remove videos related to WPT and Lodge.

This is the state of poker by the way

People will write infinite post on how to grow poker, what we need to do to bring people into the game etc

Then be upset when clips get views....on poker

The amount of people who have reached out or commented on those post saying it has sparked their interest in poker again has been wild to see

Do we not want to get views on poker?

Make it make sense.

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YouTuber and professional player Alex Duvall joined the discussion.

This is a very interesting subject and I think overall, brands like PokerGo are missing the mark. Like the world’s biggest creator sees it, distribution >>> control.

While I see the point about the shills and the recent overuse of clips, it’s also clearly a great opportunity.

Instead of going on the attack, why not just ask them to include a PokerGo link to a free trial? Win win. 🤝

Alex added a video to the post in which MrBeast speaks on a similar topic:

– "I won't say who, but a popular YouTuber with 20 million subscribers was saying the other day 'All these people keep reuploading my videos on TikTok.' And he sent me one of these TikToks with like 30 million views and I just called him and I was like, 'You f***ing dip****, you know how many people out of those 30 million had no idea who you were? How many views did that drive to your video? What are you going on about? You want to strike this?'"

Khun responded in support:

Well said.

I of course don't mind adding free promo to PokerGO either, none of that is a burden.

I think people think I'm doing this malciously, I'm not. I'm a huge fan of poker and watch everything.

When I see a few clips pop off, naturally I'm going to post more of the same clips, PokerGO wasn't posting nostalgic clips at the time so I didn't think there would be issues.

Idk if Doug has the same stance as Keeling, but overall more views=better for everyone.

Some aren't buying the "I'm just a fan posting poker vids" line..