Popular Vlogger Mariano Posts Staggering Seven-Figure 2025 Poker Results
Poker vlogger Mariano Grandoli, who grinded the low-stakes games not long ago, shared staggering seven-figure cash game results from 2025 in a yearly wrap video on YouTube.
The Hustler Casino Live regular who now plays mostly high-stakes games had a polar opposite year compared to his pal and fellow vlogger Ethan "Rampage" Yau. Rampage, at one point last year, said he was losing around $850 per hour playing poker. That differs greatly from Mariano's run at the poker table across limited hours.
Poker Vlogger's Results Even Better Than 2024
Mariano shared a video one year ago on his YouTube channel, which now has over 200,000 subscribers, to reveal his 2024 profits. The results were quite stunning considering how little time he spent playing poker — just 485 hours, or about 12 weeks of work for the average American. Despite the limited hours, he won $486,200 at the poker tables, or about $1,000 per hour.
Those were pedestrian numbers compared to his 2025 results, which he said reached $1,257,000 in 557 hours across 92 sessions. That comes out to an hourly wage of $2,256.73. Not bad work if you can find it.
"This was the best year I've ever had," Grandoli said. "I won $1.25 million. This is a number that I'm super, super happy with and not something that I ever expected to accomplish, especially when this channel started as a $1/$3 and $1/$2 vlog."
Mariano launched his YouTube channel in February 2019. He bought in for $300 in a $1/$3 game at San Manuel's poker room in Southern California in his very first video. Since then, he went on a meteoric rise up the stakes and has played in numerous six-figure buy-in games on Hustler Casino Live and Poker at the Lodge. Not only that, he's been one of the top performers in those games, although he did have a rocky patch in the middle of 2025 on HCL.
The vlogger also announced in his video some news about his "passion project," a band he plays in called Dear Delta. Grandoli, the drummer in the band he describes as being "inspired by the depths of 2000s emo and the raw edge of punk rock," said the group will be dropping a new album this year.
Grandoli also had some vlogging success in 2025. His YouTube channel, which ended 2024 with around 170,000 subscribers, grew by approximately 15% in 2025.
