Probably costs about the same as paying for a messy divorce, raising two kids from age 0-18 and having a big mortgage..

Ive only been watching Troopers VLog since January or February.... Does he really not play any WSOP events?

He wasn't allowed to last year because he was a dealer at a Caesars property. The year before he played in the Colossus.

Also he went broke around this time in each of the last two years so he simply couldn't afford to put up the money to play in the events. And he rarely plays in tournaments anyway. He did talk about playing in the WSOP sit and gos but didn't do it (he did come to Vegas to do that around 6-7 years ago though).

Well the increased rake will cut significantly into his $4 an hour winrate (or whatever his puny winrate is, assuming he is even a winner) so he has that to deal with now. But he still doesn't need to work on his game.

If nothing else, Trooper is a reminder that a much better life choice for 99% of us is to get a 40 hour a week job doing something we like and play poker as a hobby on the weekends..

Troop said he was going to sleep in his car again on his way back. I suspect that is not first time he has done that besides being caught off guard by the snow storm.

Not to be a snob, but I have never slept in my car. Anyone else? I guess that is part and parcel of being a pro gambler.

Maybe a car is safer than Motel 6

Stu, I feel like over half of my USA#1 public education revolved around reading comprehension and I became an adult and realized 80% of people I interact with badly struggle with reading comprehension. It's freaking incredible and it's the cause of like 3/4s of the back n forths on the internet; just people misread and misreplying to post and then the back n forth to clear it up. So annoying.

I've slept for extended naps in my car during long road trips or super busy times in college, 2-3 hours at a time. One time I've also been drunk at a friends place (just after college) went outside to get something from my car for bed, locked myself out of the house and just slept the rest of the night in the car until someone got up to go to work at like 7am and unlocked the front door.

Trooper needs another holiday

It's also long past when he would have a chance to get a dealing job for WSOP so that ship has sailed this year.

He definitely leads an outside the box lifestyle but he seems to be making it work. He has a stable youtube income which will probably grow, I expect his tshirt venture will be profitable and he has been winning at poker since last fall. Not the life for most but it seems to be what he wants and how he likes to spend his time. I have to think that once youtube income stabilized into covering his nut it took the pressure off of his poker game which improved as a result.

Did you like how I used 3 different ways to write out a fraction?

Anyway what I really wanted to say on your original point before that dude sidetracked me was: I agree.

Surprised nobody mentioned how Trooper checked his option with AQ in the bb. Dude really knows how to win the minimum when he has big hands and knows how to play huge pots with relatively marginal holdings.

Isn't the reason you haven't slept in your car because the casinos always comp you free rooms? I've never slept in a car either, but I did sleep on the sidewalk in front of the Church of Scientology one night in Austin, TX.

Sleeping in cars seems to be quite common in poker, although I think most of the perpetrators are degens not poker pros. I used to play 5/T with a guy that would have like $8k on the table and then would go sleep in his truck with his bankroll. He said he would sleep with his gun in his hand so that's good I suppose.

Watching his life fail makes me want to get a job.

No he doesn't. One of the few smart decisions he makes.

Just one Uber correct? And it was possibly free.

I would hope so. It's the WORLD SERIES OF POKER BABY! So much potential for content that he has completely failed to capture the past 2 years.

lol

Yeah, the real dream for Trooper should be to work 2 months out of the year and then do whatever he wants the rest of the year. This is more than doable but he is too lazy and proud (proud of what exactly lol)

Anybody know exactly how much Troop makes from youtube? Did he ever say? Obviously it's decent enough money for him to keep pumping out vids everyday like an assembly line worker.

I really thought when he did the operation uptick and started playing 2/5 that he was on the path to turning things around and start moving up to bigger and better things. He should have stayed at 2/5 and kept grinding that.

Of course he gets all cocky thinking he can survive off poker doing this Trooper across America thing which has been a complete disaster.

I got sidetracked with the nonsense that was today's vlog in general (poor planning, still paying to stay at a Hyatt Place in Pittsburgh so he can chase a high hand promotion... er, I mean chase the fish chasing the promotion etc.)

However the checking his option with AQ and speed checking it down to the river bet was pretty much the highlight of the vlog. When you show hands like that and then give the recap he gave of what happened during his session it makes me want to tell him to cut all that stuff out as an editor. Just cut it out. You'd be better off showing 3-4 hands you snap folded and then cutting to talking about the +/-.

I will give Trooper this credit: his decision making/choices are making for some drama and conversation topics and that is at least interesting. Sometimes in entertainment it's better to be interesting and talked-about than to be quality/good content.

Troop always shows his stats when he's winning but pulls the "I don't have time/I'll do it later" narrative when he gets clobbered LoL.

It is interesting that every time he has success he seems to run from it. His biggest success since moving to Vegas was in the MGM 100 hour challenge where he made $5k in 2 weeks (and potentially improved his game in the process). However, not only has he not participated in any more hourly challenges but he also hasn't been playing at MGM. In the past when he would take a shot at 2/5 and score a big win he would go back to 1/2 and wouldn't return to 2/5 for months. He had success at 2/5 during Operation Uptick and rather than building on that he immediately leaves Vegas. He claims to have had great success grinding Single Table SNGs during the WSOP and yet since moving to Vegas has not played them at all.

What this means exactly, I'm not sure. I think in the back of his mind he doesn't think he can reproduce these results. Perhaps he doesn't think he can actually beat Vegas 2/5. So he takes these "wins" where he can get them and then moves on to try to get new wins rather than potentially tarnishing the wins he already has.

I have a hunch Trooper is a huge tell at the table.

Dream Crusher:

Stu and I were talking about TBC.

I remember a video alittle after the 100 hour challenge when he got told to not video record hands at the MGM. He went on one of his rants saying that he will never play at the MGM Grand again.

In my opinion, MGM Grand is a great room full of players spewing chips at night(hint hint). When I played there months ago there was a drunk guy that came from the club that was bluffing on every hand and just kept shoving in chips. I just called him down with top pair top kicker and picked up some easy money and a nice win.

I also remember a night where Trooper hit for 1300K here. Its pretty sad that he had to boycott this casino.

1.3K?

1.3k I mean. If I have the ability to win that much, I'd have a sleeping bag under the table.

Trooper and PokerKraut both made an appearance in this vlog. I found this particular statement interesting though. It sounds like Trooper probably scolded him for coming up to him in the poker room.