To have a downswing, you need to be a winning player in the first place...

@rempseaheinamies9414

5 ай бұрын

Nope, you just need to have some money and then lose it like airball.

I wouldn’t call this a downswing, I would call it a horrible losing player continuing to lose

@jarrodfulton

9 ай бұрын

Dude has never had an upswing

@jalama334

9 ай бұрын

It’s not a downswing when you don’t have an established win rate at this level game. Little hint Nik you slowly move up in stakes after establishing solid win rates on many many hours and hands played. He never established himself as a winner on a solid sample size I bet at 10/20 let alone 25/50 or 100/200 + Silver spoon mentality Then to be dumb enough to boast about his losing streak makes him even more the victim and others abuse him even more

@matkop6828

9 ай бұрын

Big idiot

@OneOut1

9 ай бұрын

​​@@jarrodfultonwhen a producer is producing it's stupid to rub his loses in his face. It's just a down swing dumbass and we all know downswings eventually turn to upswings if the money holds out.

@jarrodfulton

9 ай бұрын

@@OneOut1 dang, u must be airballs number 1 fan....

I'm not a poker player, but my read on Airball is that he probably had some early success due to his willingness to pile ridiculous sums of money into the middle. However, people caught on to what he was doing, and now these crazy bluffs and unorthodox plays are -EV. Curious to see what thoughtful poker players think about Airball.

@user-gx2yy1df6f

9 ай бұрын

good point, eric perrson is another one who throws his stack around, (kinda like " throwing your weight around") it,s gotta be hard calling a half million dollar bet.

@JASON19000

9 ай бұрын

Definitely he probably dominated low levels where his huge bankroll made it a lot easier to punt buy ins

@user-gx2yy1df6f

9 ай бұрын

exactly! great insight . @@JASON19000

@philphil9347

9 ай бұрын

Thoughtful players think he isn't good. He played Berkey hu and lost $1m and still thinks he was the better player. Betting on its own doesn't accomplish wins. His name and reputation has literally got airball in it. Now what he should do is study theory, nit it up, get called with all his value bets and make back some of the millions.

@blue4life175

9 ай бұрын

Ask Berkey he’ll tell you. 😬

Any video watching Nick airball lose is an instant click

@krisdiaz2277

6 ай бұрын

Lol explains why this random makes videos about him.. how is this guy judging how someone plays poker? Nik is far from the best but he's out there playing..not making videos on a losing poker player for clout

He is so rude to other players that it makes this fun to watch. Also, they are on to his bs plays.

@drocpdp

9 ай бұрын

I hate when he touches other players' chips. Personal space violation, man!

Airball has bought into his own hype.

Is it really a 'downswing' when you just go and donate your money over and over?

@1312Mork2

9 ай бұрын

Nah its called winrate

@user-ty2wy2hq6o

8 ай бұрын

Facts….

@rempseaheinamies9414

5 ай бұрын

Sure is. Perpetual downswing.

One of the issues people who bluff a lot run into is they believe they are being bluffed way more than they are

@CH-bp3bj

7 ай бұрын

Yes! The compulsive liar who doesn't trust anyone.

@trademodejames

7 ай бұрын

this is facts

Nick Airball is an amazing player to have at your table

@pennywise4843

7 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

@rempseaheinamies9414

5 ай бұрын

Everyone's favorite stacker.

I'm a simple man. I see Nik doing something crazy, I click the like button.

@martinworld7214

8 ай бұрын

you are a boring man , you see something that has been done to death & you copy it .

Something tells me Rob isn't going to be on Airball's Christmas card list this year.

"Daddy, can I have a few more millions fwom my twust fund, pwease?"

@rempseaheinamies9414

5 ай бұрын

He is going to need pwetty pweases soon. :)

When you have a shirt that says "poker is my philanthropy" 😂

@zacharydean9479

9 ай бұрын

That Part 👏

his clothes are getting more average every stream.. starting by wearing the gucci and prada and in this most recent photo a tee he got from Ross

@Yourfavoritedealer

9 ай бұрын

Your right I bet he’s down to his like couple million thinking he will get it back. It’s actually sad.

This vid popped up on my recommended, and I didn’t even realize I had subbed to your channel sometime ago. More content please. This is good stuff.

@ElitePokerCoaching

9 ай бұрын

Thanks! Will do!

This isn't a downswing, this is just a bad player. He's involved in hands he should never have seen the flop with. I Love players that refuse to fold, even when they know they're beat.

@rempseaheinamies9414

5 ай бұрын

Still a downswing when he is losing and it is so lovely.

Threw away $8 million of his families trust just to look like a fool on stream? Genius

@Ihave10billionsubs

9 ай бұрын

I can't imagine how embarrassed his parents/grandparents must be. They worked so hard for the money most of their lives just to see this idiot blowing it left and right on stupidity. Unbelievable.

@Juntahh

9 ай бұрын

And still going !!!

@JeffZuccMusk

9 ай бұрын

That's poker baby

@cosmosgato

9 ай бұрын

Yes!: this is a sad clown bus

@user-ty2wy2hq6o

8 ай бұрын

Facts…..

In a game where there's only 4 streets of decisions to make, it's kinda hard to make 5 mistakes in one hand. That was pretty incredible.

He’s just reaping the karma he sowed. I’ve never seen another poker player talk more trash to his opponent after stacking them. The worst table etiquette I’ve ever seen.

@loganlasvegas

7 ай бұрын

He’s actually a really good sport when he loses, but the absolute worst winner. Fortunately he doesn’t win much.

@kitsune090

7 ай бұрын

​@@loganlasvegasso he is a good loser and a bad winner? lol

The big question everyone would love to have answered is where the f*** does Airball come up with $8 million liquid to blow on poker? We know it ain’t “investment banking” because 25 yo investment bankers ain’t making that kind of money and young investment bankers ain’t leaving promising, lucrative careers in order to donk of millions of dollars on the felt.

@chadwellington2524

8 ай бұрын

His parent must be very very rich if he can blow 8 million and they dont care..To be able to blow 8 million and not care you have to be worth what at least 200 million

@yapisaiah5307

7 ай бұрын

definitely more. if i had 200k and find out my son blew 8k ill be pissed as fuck. Maybe it would be like they made 8M in a month so losing 8M over a span of a year just feels like normal expenses lol@@chadwellington2524

@rempseaheinamies9414

5 ай бұрын

parents

JJ hand is a work of art

It’s just so hilarious that each hand started off the way they did before the cards were even dealt 😂 To be fair, this type of stuff gets him paid off in pretty wild spots too.

Downswing??? 0:38 Poppycock!!! Nik Airball is a charitable organization dedicated to keeping the game of high stakes poker in the LA area alive and well! 🤗

Listening to the commentators on HCL try to be nice is very entertaining

airball the anti-hero, makes the stream more enjoyable for sure

Praising the fish is very important in poker. This keeps them coming back with their money. You can praise directly or by giving attention. Good job everyone keeping the fish live.

I just came to read the comments. Come one guys, lighten up on him. Without him sponsoring the big game streams they could very well go away. In any singular poker session if you look at the distribution of winners and losers it's always roughly the same. In a full table game with 9, you will have 2-3 winners for the session, 1-2 break even players, and the rest are losing. The top 3-5 spots in these big games each session will vary and be filled with the good players. Those good players will sometimes break even, and every now and then lose. But those good players will change their game selection if they don't always have a line up of fish to fry like Nick. The game needs him.

NICE VID GLAD YOU BACK

subscribed. editing is on point.

Funny the opening line from Airball on the first clip he’s quoting never underestimate how stupid people can be. Perfect.

Notice that some players who stick it to fish airball are no longer playing for HCL: Stanley, Rampage, Bill Klein but also Huss and Tom Dwan (who got fish Wesley). Doug Polk said that he is not wanted at HCL by the "inner circle"- you can guess who that is

@lloydchristmas1086

9 ай бұрын

I thought Airball and Doug are friends? I dont understand why Hustler is giving Airball so much pull...the dude is a total narcissist annoying douche.

@charlesmartiniii1405

9 ай бұрын

Surprised Mariano is still getting invited. Its really a bunch of trashy degens. And that has its own appeal, but It doesn't hold a candle to legendary shows like the million dollar game, or the big game

A Very Wise Man Told Me, And I Listen To Him, "A Fool And His Money Were Lucky To Meet In The First Place!"

I showed this video to my 10 year old daughter, who's now been studying poker for about 6 months. Her reaction was: 'I'd love to play him, I'm sure I could win lots of his money'. hahah. Ohh man, I laughed for some time. Thanks Rob, great content as always!

@likemostthings

9 ай бұрын

lololol!!

@michaelfsolis

9 ай бұрын

@christopherpaolino9607he’s teacher her a game dude relax.

@jojoanisse2650

9 ай бұрын

Keeping your daughter away from a card deck would be wise lol

@Yourfavoritedealer

9 ай бұрын

@christopherpaolino9607poker is just a fun game for 99.9999% of the population nothing with showing your kid a fun game. I played poker with friends and family starting at 11 I didn’t become a addict.

@user-jv2zh6jo1o

9 ай бұрын

Clearly a joke. Teaching a child poker would be so destructive to it's developing domamine pathways, if it's true you might as well teach her the oldest profession while your at it. She's going to need to fund a hardcore gambling addiction somehow.

Nik is the dream opponent. He hasn't played poker for very long, he has a ton of cash he's made outside of poker and he's literally learning how to play when he's playing high stakes. Sit back, play a nice solid game and collect Nik's money at the end of the night.

$8 million upswing is right around the corner

@georgewbushcenterforintell147

9 ай бұрын

Turn around Tuesday is next week

@blue4life175

9 ай бұрын

🤣

He's gonna wind up in the same 55-gal drum as Ryusuke...

@twiz1084

9 ай бұрын

We only have 45 gallon drums

I play 5/5 NL. 1k buy ins. I've gone on 10k downswings at the very most. And that was me playing completely tilted and running bad. However, losing 80 buy-ins or even 40 buy-ins over a short course of a few months you can't really say its a downswing. This is a player who simply is delusional of his skill or underestimates the variance and skill it takes too make it as a professional poker player. - A professional poker players thoughts.

@twiz1084

9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your thoughts. Very illuminating

@kellegyheadshot

7 ай бұрын

The variance of these games are very different than your average 5/5. They play loose and splashy to look good on TV, usually very deepstacked, while your game is most likely a nitfest 1-200 deep. Live low stakes cash is the ultimate smooth sailing format, basically every other poker game is multiple times swingier. That being said Airball is a whale lol

The look on Mariano’s face at 6:21 …. Like “ wtf bro? Jacks? Really……”. 😂 😂 well played Airbag, well played.

I've seen Nic make some brilliant plays but, as with all aggressive players, when things start to go wrong it can lead to a sudden and complete loss of confidence, or just turn into a losing streak that never ends as you second guess yourself until the game drives you insane.

If im down $800 I get nervous

@Level_No_Curve

9 ай бұрын

right down 800 in a night and i start getting irritated even though i can lose it and be just fine lol

0:48 hmmm indeed

The call pre w/ the K9o isn't completely terrible closing the action getting 5.5 to 1, imo. That said, ya gotta be very careful postflop and not torch $$ w/ 1 pair!

@KaliAndy2

9 ай бұрын

Yeah you can play the hand but have to play accordingly given this hand has huge reverse implied odds. Any straight can be losing to likely bigger straights. Flush need 4 on board and unlikely to get paid off. Hit top pair and multi way liiely losing to many better kings, sets or two pairs if get in bigger pots. Hard to get paid off big unless hit two pair vs AK exactly maybe KQ. Gotta keep pots smaller and use hand more as a bluff catcher. He is betting flop and turn on monotone board after multi way action like he needs protection. He is either crushed by ton of hands or needs to dodge hearts and aces. Keep it small and maybe call down if bad cards don't come. Betting just bloats pot with mediocre hand that can be nearly dead leading to tough decisions later. Compounding mistakes

@tjmurphy4807

9 ай бұрын

@KaliAndy2 Pretty much spot on. If i have his hand i peel flop, on turn i can probably get away, especially if villain has been playing more on the snug side like the commentator says. Ya want dudes like Airball at the table though for action and to punt when you have the stones!

Wow those bet sizings look like some free bar poker stuff 😂

At what point does he admit he's just not that good and quit? $10 Million? $20 Million?

More of a punt than a downswing

"Whatever comes, I know you're gonna bet, Doug Lee." -- Kido Pham

Poker is his philanthropy

Great production and commentary. BUT I really don't understand what the big deal is. I normally have $10MM laying around in my 3rd floor walk up apartment to blow on Poker.

very quiet. turn up volume Rob.

I hope air ball continues On his mood

According to hustler he’s about even at their casino I guess he plays else where also

It’s weird since the poker trackers say he’s slightly up on hustler

@mikewilliams3509

9 ай бұрын

Yea I don't get 8 mil down... Berkey got him for a mil but 7 more mil I haven't seen it

@mikewilliams3509

9 ай бұрын

But he has played tighter recently and ran away from the table when him and dwan ran that plo week

@Copypastedates

9 ай бұрын

Listen to vertucci podcast w him. Most of his losses come after hours or in private unstreamed games. The public only sees a fraction of airballs action. Probably less than 30%

At least his philanthropy is doing well. He’s always welcome to play at Hustlers. All the players love him.

Whats the music at the end 🔥

How does he get to him being on an 8 mil downswing? HCL poker tracker has him up 186,000 after 100 episodes?

@championchanph423

7 ай бұрын

It only shows the streamed games. Nik plays unstreamed games in HCL, too.

To become a millionaire, first be a billionaire and then lend money to Nik

Downswing = euphemism for "losing consistently".

It's more what the pros call the fish at the table

The interesting question is how a (former) accountant has this much of a bankroll?

@TomTopar

9 ай бұрын

accountant, books, handling the money, based on the job I'm just guessing you understand

The truth hurts when you watch it !!!

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤It's time for a Nik Airball intervention.

You really can make a video about anything now a days

That grotesque lump may have heard that professor but he certainly didn’t listen.

Where does he get his bank roll ?

Mariano was perplexed cause he should of fn bet, he would have got called by airball. He knew he adh

Why is Mariano range so wide??? and Nik's so tight? I am sorry but could you explain?

So the first awful hand Niik plays, why the hell wouldn't he consider leading the river when the flush comes in? I'm not saying it would have worked, but he didn't even consider it, after taking a horrible line from the start in this hand, including pre-flop???

@KaliAndy2

9 ай бұрын

He didn't have a single spade in his hand

K9o is one of those hands that always gets you in trouble.

In all fairness the JJ hand against Mariano kind of makes sense seeing as how there are many hands Mariano could’ve been bluffing with and he’s more than capable. Example any up and down draw any flush draw any naked AK potentially AK suited etc..though I must say that river was an ideal spot for nik to jam and get Mariano to fold but oh well he’s a bum next

How quickly he turned his pocket jacks over tells you how clueless he was

Funny thing is, if he would just start following preflop charts and underbluf and overfold postflop he would get at least half of his money back in no time.

So who are the players on HCL that win consistently?

@aaronsoto4622

9 ай бұрын

Dwan, Mariano, Andy, imo are probably all up on the show.

@JeffZuccMusk

9 ай бұрын

All the good players

Couldn't happen to a nicer guy. Hilarious how he acts like he's a great player when he claws back 0.001% of his losses.

Nik is obviously playing the heal role for HCL. He has thrown his money around staking players which has given him the power to act like he’s the boss over everyone! A heal playing a heal role!

I still do not think he is on a 8 million dollar downswing that cant be right .. someone has to hire a private i to see where his money came from

How to take lines that make poker difficult lol

They did him dirty with that pic

When he wins a hand and says “here you go bitch” and slurs insults at others in many other games I’ve seen him in. Nothing makes me happier than watching somebody lose his millions by being a bad player

turn your volume up dude. Always too quiet and need to [pump my Vol up

Airball runs a diversion. Plays bad on stream so he gets invited to juicy private games, then crushes. Kinda like RDP.

@blue4life175

9 ай бұрын

Like how he crushed Berkey? 🤔

There is no shock in this. I posted on Hustler and SFWhy 3 months ago that airball has huge blatant tells and it's no secret in the Vegas community what they are. He is literally a billboard and will continue to get battered.

Wish Garrett would come back to hcl and get rid of this clown

Imagine what roll is like if he can slide that far down and still play

@king_has_no_clothskul8635

7 ай бұрын

HE MIGHT BE A BILLIONAIRE WHO KNOWS?

Did Westside quit? The artist formerly known as Wes?

Does Nik Airball not realize he is literally garbage at Poker lol?

Couldn't happen to a nicer bloke 😮

its only a downswing if u are playing reasonably well and are still losing. Also it seems obvious that he didnt earn this kind of money so it might be nice to know how he came by it.

Mau-Riano not Merry-ano. Thanks.

@ijustwannaleaveacommentony6511

9 ай бұрын

maori christmas and hoppy both day

He still up at the Buffett

I don’t think he can beat 200 NL online..

He’s loaded 8 milly is just like buying happy meal to us normal people for him 🤑

Down swing? This is train, at full speed, derailing into a nuclear power plant

easy to analyze a player sitting behind a screen not sniffing these stakes

$800 call to win $4300 from the 3B. I don't see how this is bad. Is he not getting better than 5:1 pot odds? The graphic says he has 26% to win... Is this not an easy pot odds vs hand odds?? 🤔

He really a big fish 🐠. Everyone love to play with him.

how is it absurd? its expected

I feel like HCL is immoral in this situation. It's the first I've seen pros trick a whale into thinking he is a pro. They invite him onto podcasts and give him the illusion that he is a winning player. He even talks about what is good for the game and how to handle fish while being oblivious to the fact that the games run around him. It's a fucking shocking thing to see.

He needs to sub to upswing poker or solve 4,Y academy of poker .

The poker gods probably give me so much bad karma bc of how much I laugh at Nik Goofball.

Oh so he considers that a downswing? Yeah, he might be losing just because of variance.