Marle Cordeiro’s poker vlog is a polarizing mix of dark humor, poker lifestyle commentary, and hand analysis.
The 27-year-old cash game 🗝 player has undeniably grabbed the attention of the poker community since launching the vlog in September, finding both fans and 🗝 detractors of her satirical style.
The vlog takes us through Marle’s adventures on the Las Vegas cash game scene, often taking 🗝 turns between twisted comedy and strategy discussion.
Let’s take a look at this new YouTube sensation:
Who is Marle Cordeiro?
Marle Cordeiro introduces 🗝 herself as a full-time cash game player, who moved to Las Vegas for a fresh start and to be closer 🗝 to her father. She started playing in localR$1/$2 games as a part-time hobby and is now pursuing the poker dream 🗝 of grinding full time.
She’s also now going after her longtime goal of creating a poker vlog, and her YouTube channel 🗝 has grown to over 20k subscribers in just 3 months.
Marle’s “Looking For a Poker Pro Boyfriend” entry sparked much discussion 🗝 in the poker media and on Twitter:
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Marle’s Vlog Blows Up
We haven’t really seen anything quite like what Marle 🗝 is doing in the world of poker vlogs, and in the last three months she’s appeared on Friday Night Poker 🗝 (on PokerGO), Live at the Bike, and as a guest on several poker podcasts.
She’s been the subject of controversy in 🗝 the poker community, with the vlog really starting to gain traction after catching the attention of Joey Ingram.
Some of poker’s 🗝 biggest names have weighed in with opinions on Cordeiro’s content, with much of that sentiment coming in response to this 🗝 tweet from Ingram. The video in the tweet features a skit from the vlog that sees Corderio begging on the 🗝 street, getting a job as a stripper and soliciting men at a casino in an effort to get money to 🗝 play poker:
We have a new female poker vlogger on YouTube that people have been loving since she started. Her intros 🗝 are some of the most OOL I’ve seen lol. We are podcasting together this week I’ve talked with some people 🗝 that are upset about the angle she is taking, what do you all think? pic.twitter/HQ9Eov1DPZ — Joey Ingram (@Joeingram1) November 🗝 6, 2024
Ingram’s tweet invited a wide range of responses in the poker community, with Jamie Kerstetter and Justin Bonomo among 🗝 those who chimed in:
Pretty sure I staked her in the aria nightly for a bathroom quickie last year — Jamie 🗝 Kerstetter (@JamieKerstetter) November 6, 2024
It’s obviously satire, but to what end? As far as I can tell, the joke in 🗝 the first half of the video is, “Wouldn’t it be funny if I were as pathetic as a homeless person 🗝 / stripper / sex worker?” Meh. — Justin Bonomo (@JustinBonomo) November 6, 2024
Obviously a great vlogger and LoL at anyone 🗝 ‘upset’ by this. — Chachy (@chachyonfire) November 6, 2024
I have been trying to figure out why I dislike this video. 🗝 I think it’s because… If you did a video like this about women in poker it would end your career.
But 🗝 she did this video and it will jump start hers. — Melissa Burr (@burrrrrberry) November 8, 2024
A typical entry from 🗝 Marle features a comedic introduction, but also plenty of hand analysis and introspection about life as a cash game grinder. 🗝 She’s currently climbing the stakes ladder and mostly playing in Las Vegas, with occasional travel for games in Los Angeles, 🗝 Reno and Arizona.
She’s also establishing herself as a unique female personality in the game, and while not all of the 🗝 feedback for Marle’s vlog has been positive, she’s definitely finding ways to stand out in a world saturated with poker 🗝 content.
Even Daniel Negreanu has seen the vlog, as we find out from this clip from Cordeiro’s session on Friday Night 🗝 Poker:
Kelly Minkin Weighs In
That Halloween session from Friday Night Poker is one of the most memorable from 2024 and features 🗝 Marle mixing it up in a couple of hands with Kelly Minkin, one of poker’s most successful and popular female 🗝 players.
Kelly stopped by for an episode of Joey Ingram’s podcast shortly after the session and the topic of Marle Cordeiro 🗝 came up. The two discuss Marle’s vlog for several minutes, with Kelly expressing mixed feelings:
Kelly praises the vlog for being 🗝 funny and well-made, but also questions whether the content is detrimental to female poker players.
“The women that are well-respected poker 🗝 players worked hard for that,” Kelly says in the podcast. “And so it seems regressive to joke about it. I’m 🗝 not saying it’s not funny, or I’m upset with her; I question whether she understands where that route is going 🗝 to take her.”
Marle Fires Back
By episode 8 of the vlog Marle is well aware of her critics and fires back 🗝 at some of the negative feedback from Kelly Minkin, Justin Bonomo, and even Joe Ingram, who she felt was trying 🗝 to instigate a feud between Minkin and Cordeiro with some of the discussion from the podcast.
In this entry, Cordeiro contends 🗝 that her content isn’t intended to be detrimental toward female players, but rather is a commentary on the way female 🗝 poker players are perceived:
“I can’t remember the last time that people were talking about women in poker as much as 🗝 they are now,” Marle says. “One of my most popular videos was; I created this fictional, exaggerated sketch of me 🗝 going around trying to get a poker stake, and various ways of me trying to get money to play poker.”
“Since 🗝 I started playing poker, that has been the stereotype that I’ve been faced with,” Marle continues. “That for so long 🗝 women have had to fight against the stereotype in poker, and in most industries. That if we are crushing, especially 🗝 at a high level, playing high stakes, that it’s assumed that we got there by means other than our talent, 🗝 or moving up the ranks, or studying.”
“The only thing I was trying to accomplish with those sketches was to create 🗝 this kind of exaggerated, satirical version of what everyone thinks women in poker do. My hope was that you would 🗝 see those kind of exaggerated, ridiculous skits and kind of laugh at the fact that this is what people think 🗝 women do. It’s absurd.”
Marle has since appeared on an episode of Joey’s podcast and continues to produce content for the 🗝 vlog. It will certainly be interesting to follow Marle’s journey as a poker player and content creator, and see if 🗝 she finds longevity as one of the game’s prominent female players.
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