March Poker Mania Profiles: Meet Michigan's Andrew Neeme
If you're a poker player and have ever been on YouTube, chances are you've watched or come across a vlog by BetMGM March Poker Mania Michigan host Andrew Neeme. One of the pioneers of poker vlogging, Michigan's Neeme has hundreds of poker videos that each rack up tens or hundreds of thousands of views.
One video in particular, of a cash game session where Neeme flops quads and gets check-raised, has gotten over 620,000 views to make it Neeme's most-watched video. Another video where Neeme gets raised while holding pocket aces has garnered 514,000 views.
In addition to running a YouTube channel with over 175,000 subscribers, Neeme is famous for hosting live meet-up games in Las Vegas and other parts of the country, allowing fans and regular viewers to play pots against himself, Brad Owen and other popular poker content creators.
Most recently, Neeme teamed up with Owen and Upswing Poker's Doug Polk in investing in the Lodge Poker Club in Austin, one of the most popular rooms in the booming Texas poker scene.
"The idea came up that wouldn’t it be cool if instead of going [to other venues], what if we just had our own cardroom and we could just set up shop," Neeme recently told PokerNews on the PokerNews Podcast. "Instead of promoting other people’s things, the thing would sort of point inward and we could have a say in how the room is run and all these benefits that would come with ownership."
As a March Poker Mania host, Neeme will host the MetMGM Poker Cash Game Meetup at MGM Grand Detroit on March 23 and a college basketball hangout at the BetMGM Sports Lounge on March 24 before streaming several events on his YouTube channel throughout the week.