A Day In The Life of The Maven
I have to admit, I usually find these poker player “lifestyle” type videos pretty cool and stumbled accross a new one today about David “The Maven” Chicotsky. If it wasn’t for his video training site, or the fact that I for some odd reason keep in the loop with what is going on with online players I probably would have no idea who this guy is. Regardless, David put together this video as most likely a marketing ploy to promote his training services or there is some connection with the new Victory Poker site which recently launched (as he is one of their pros shown on their homepage) on the Everleaf Network (yea, you’ve probably never heard of it because its one of the worst networks).
Firstly you can watch the video here (sorry, it doesn’t have an embed option), then read my review of it after.
Anyway, I digress… so here is my breakdown/coles notes of the video. The video starts off with David playing several tournaments on various poker sites at his home in Las Vegas including Absolute Poker for some odd reason. I guess he doesn’t mind trusting his money with sites known to cheat players. After playing for what appears to be a short period of time (I guess he busted out early or let his masseuse continue playing for him) he hits the gym to pump some iron get his body beach ready for pools. After this he heads over to Chop, the guy from the hit TV show King of Cars to get hustled into buying an over priced benz. Since this is a day in the life of The Maven, does that mean he buys an $80k car everyday? This is followed by him going to get an overpriced lunch at some Japanese restaurant. Once he finishes up there he heads to a poker degen session (where broke people go to try and strike it rich by becoming good at gambling) to promote his training. After he finishes up there where it looks like some guy who can’t afford to pay for his training is offering him sexual favours as he leaves to learn, he heads over to his life coach??? WTF is a life coach and who pays someone to tell them how to run their life? The life coach himself looks kind of insane and probably could use his own life coach, though he seems to be doing pretty good at ripping off morons. Next stop, he heads over to Antonio Esfandiari’s crib for what looks like a Victory Poker party. I have to admit Antonio is a pimp and his condo is full of smoking girls. Though aside from Antonio you really have to ask if these girls would even talk to most of these guys if they didn’t have bucket loads of money. For example, Andrew Robl (good2cu online) has to be one of the most akward people I have seen being interviewed before. The video ends off with “The Maven” heading to some party get together of like 7 people at the Palms. He sees some asian escort that he hired after a party at the Playboy Mansion, and the video ends off with him hiring her for her services again.
Ok, now that I am done ripping on this video, let me explain why I am hating on it so much. First off, sure, a lot of it is probably true of what he does on a daily basis, but the question is, how much of that stuff is complete BS to try and make him look cool. The car thing is just in there to show off a lot of the things though they do probably happen regularily, I can’t see him doing this every single day. Most of the big online poker tournaments are at night, so when is he sitting home for those 13 hour sessions to grind those games out. To become an online player of the year you have to be putting in some serious sessions I would think on a daily basis. Everybody knows the life of a poker player is far from glamourous. You really have to put in long sessions at your computer or a poker table to make the money to pay for the flashy lifestyle. I know many poker players that do quite well for themselves ($1 mil + per year) and even they spend a ton of time at their computers and rarely get out that much. And these are people with large social circles and lots of friends, not just people who’s only friends are other poker players. Finally, that last part with the asian girl looked sooooo staged. I am not trying to say that he couldn’t pick her up (I am pretty sure he used to have some smoking blonde girlfriend – not sure what happened to that) but don’t do retarded things like that just to try and make yourself look “cool” for a video. I really don’t see him as the type of guy that is out pulling girls home everyday. Sure, you are probably doing this because it is what you think people want to be / it looks cool, but just be yourself, the dorky looking kid that is really good at poker, and stop trying to pretend you are something you are not.
On another note, here is a good remake of The Maven’s video…
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