Jake Cody Vlogs With SnapChat Glasses

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Mixing poker with social media is one of the biggest areas of interest just now, Twitch streaming and Twitter updates everywhere you look, and English pro Jake Cody has just taken things to the next level by wearing ‘Snapchat’ glasses to record the action as he took his £2/5 opponents to the cleaners at London’s Hippodrome Casino.

The latest technology, called ‘Spectacles’ by the newly re-branded instant photo and messaging service Snap Inc. combines a (rather gaudy) pair of sunglasses with little cameras embedded, Cody’s latest YouTube vlog (videoblog) revealing the moment he received them.

Vlogs are usually filmed on video cams (a la Trooper97) or smartphones, but the HD-look of Cody’s new toy seems set to change that soon – the sunglasses quite a common accessory for live poker pros anyway and the quality of Cody’s glasses very impressive.

Latest vlog! - Playing Poker at the Hippodrome in Londonhttps://t.co/PTv2yK0RKG

— Jake Cody (JakeCody) December 11, 2016

The young Englishman can usually be found playing big MTT’s, such as the soon-to-be-defunct/rebranded EPT events which shot him to fame and fortune back in 2010 – his 1st place in EPT Deauville worth an impressive €857,000 ($1,213,194) - and the young man has amassed over $4million in tournament winnings overall.

For his Snapchat vlog, however, he decided a smaller £2/5 game at the Hippodrome was a good testing ground for the innovative spectacles, which record around 10 seconds of video at a time, just enough to piece together a poker hand showing his own hole cards, and then edited to include cards, bets and commentary for an interesting and polished finished product.

With 7500 followers of his engaging YouTube vlogs, Cody is just the latest in a line of new ‘social media poker pros’ such as Andrew Neeme, Trooper97, Jamie Staples, Kevin Martin and the big Twitch guys like Doug Polk and Jason Somerville.

Vlog PILOT
Feedback and RTs appreciated :)https://t.co/34GIpNnKB7

— Jake Cody (@JakeCody) November 13, 2016

Being able to watch so many different poker styles, levels and approaches to the game and video-making is great for the fans – the poker insight just as useful as the other content is amusing and interesting.

At the moment it seems to be a race as to who can gather the biggest following in the new poker vlog world – I expect Cody’s goggles to put him in an ‘early lead’ but you can be sure the rest will be looking for their own unique angle in the weeks ahead.

As Cody stated himself this week on the 2+2 forum:

"YouTube is huge and I strongly believe the YouTube poker community is growing very fast and that can only be a good thing for poker. I think all the channels can help each other and it’s healthy competition.”