Hustler Casino Live (HCL) YouTube channel is one of the biggest and most popular live-streaming poker channels on the internet. The channel is famous for bringing high-profile guests like Neymar, Mr.Beast, Ludwing, Alex Botez, Nik Airball, Ryan Garcia, Tom Dwan, Phil Ivey, etc. The channel has 361,000 subscribers and is breaking the record in live viewership when special streams happen.
HCL has also produced some of the biggest controversies in the poker community. One of the biggest scandals in poker was Robbi Jade Lew vs Garrett Adelstein hand, in which Robbi called Garrett’s semi-bluff, holding just jack high. The whole controversy happened about the same time as there were cheating scandals going on in chess.
At the moment, the most popular poker streaming channel was banned from streaming for unknown reasons, but there are speculations that advertisers YouTube doesn’t like, according to Ryan Feldman, who is the co-owner of Hustler Casino Live.
HCL posted about the incident on X, saying that the ban will be for only one week and that the stream will be live on their Twitch channel.
There are also concerns that this will disrupt the algorithm of their old videos and maybe cause more suspensions, as YouTube doesn’t like to promote gambling or that kind of business.
HCL Twitch channel has only around 700 followers, but it managed to get around 400 live viewers and be the most viewed Twitch channel in the poker category. This is certanly nice, but they will be looking to get back to their youtube audience and dominate with record breaking viewership there.
Is their youtube channel going to be ok without any further suspensions? We will have to wait and see, and maybe prepare that Twitch will be their main streaming platform in the future.
