Matthew Staples is back on the podcast! In this episode, Matthew discusses how he has grown his Twitch and how his life and poker game have changed with his Twitch success. You’ll hear all about his weight loss bet with Jaime Staples and how it helped him improve his mental clarity for playing poker on long streams. Also, you’ll hear how to create a strategy for avoiding burnout whilst growing your Twitch and YouTube audience.

Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Matthew in this episode: 

• How Matthew’s Twitch streaming started to boom
• Why Matt is studying harder than ever to play high stakes poker
• The weight loss bet and journey, how eating less energised Matthew’s streaming
• How to ride the Twitch grind and avoiding burnout
• Advice on making a unique stream and how to play multiple tables
• Ideas to grow a poker-based YouTube channel

Timestamps:

• 0:00 – Introduction
• 0:15 – Welcoming Matthew to the episode
• 1:15 – The good and bad of 2020
• 6:00 – Poker game evolution
• 8:45 – WPT & Largest Twitch Score
• 10:45 – How Matthew grew his streaming career
• 14:05 – Weight loss bet with Jaime Staples
• 26:30 – Being Twitch “famous” and planning for the future
• 31:15 – Avoiding Twitch burnout and taking breaks
• 34:30 – Discussing Phil Hellmuth’s success and exploring opportunities
• 42:05 – How Matt makes a unique stream & playing multiple tables
• 50:00 – Having Jaime Staples as a brother
• 51:40 – Poker State of the Union
• 53:40 – YouTube strategy
• 59:30 – Hitting 100k on Twitch
• 1:02:00 – Prop bets
• 1:03:50 – Favourite win
• 1:05:00 – Gap between playing poker and streaming
• 1:08:50 – Being sponsored
• 1:10:00 – Poker idols
• 1:12:00 – Aliases and partypoker changes
• 1:19:15 – Favourite movies
• 1:20:50 – Long term plans
• 1:24:20 – Playing against Jaime Staples
• 1:28:00 – Discovering why you’re playing bad
• 1:30:20 – Bankroll strategy, Influence and Favourite Tournaments
• 1:34:00 – Dating life and lining up stream schedules
• 1:41:00 – Final thoughts and wrapping up the stream

Episode Resources:

• Matthew Staples Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matthew_stapless/
• Matthew Staples Twitter: https://twitter.com/MattStaplesPKR
• Matthew Staples Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/mattstaples/
• Matthew Staples YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbGNlQJQxhjod8BN7DQdi_A

Podcast Links:

• Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/jeffgrosspoker/
• partypoker: https://www.partypoker.com/
• Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jeff-gross-the-flow-show/id1463609319
• Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6Yp1jHCaqvYsLtS7lNCGAA
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/jeffgrosspoker/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeffGrossPoker