Hopefully he has good money managing skills. The recent $4k downswing would be brutal to anyone living a paycheck-to-paycheck type lifestyle.

Question: How many vloggers are like Trooper ?

PokerMonk is Negreanu-ish in a subtle way.

Frechette is kinda hit or miss for me. It's funny because to stereotype him by the way he looks I wouldn't think he'd be someone I'd get along with but he comes off as a genuinely nice friendly fun to be around guy. His poker commentary ranges from really good to OMG that's so terrible it's tilting me. He had one where he talked about AK in the fishiest way possible that drove me nuts.

I haven't seen his earnings graph for 2016. All I know is he used to give update videos and back then through like 700 hours of play in 2015 he was averaging around $20 an hour at 1/2

Trooper seems to play a ton of his hours at Bally's. They run a weekly freeroll there and have had either a weekly or monthly freeroll there for ages. I'm shocked that he has never played in one of these. Does he simply pass up the free EV or does he seriously not play enough hours?

The freeroll used to be 12 hours and is now 20 hours. How does he not hit that in a week if he puts in 3+ sessions in at Bally's?

Good point. Now its 20 hours a week and get a free entry to the Saturday 8pm $130 tourney with $7500 guarantee and 2k for 1st guarantee.

Why the hell doesn't he play? or he always busts and doesn't show it. Or just bad planning again.

I think it goes back to his poor execution syndrome. If he makes little adjustments in life (taking the free buy-in into the tournaments, eating at cheaper and healthier places, and storyboarding some vlogs) then he sees HUGE quality of life improvements (more money from poker, more money in the wallet and better health, and more subs and viewers for his channel.)

As corny as Negreanu comes off in his vlogs, the guy would be a perfect example for Trooper to get some piece of mind and set a path for his life. Sitting down everyday for 10-15 minutes to write down some goals and track his progress towards said goals, watching what he eats and hitting the gym, and taking some time to meditate or just reflect on life and be grateful would all put Trooper on a better path towards success while living in Vegas.

"If You Don't Know Where You're Going, How Will You Get There?"

Goals are important. Even Trooper succeeded when he set the goal to play the hours at MGM and was very successful.

How do you think it ends for him? His views now (albeit lower than October 2016) are still materially better than pre-neeme bump. And he seemed happy enough back then. Trooper was chugging along for months back with 5,000 subscribers. At absolute worst, he'll always be doing better than that, so I predict he'll remain unphased

We need operation uptick version 2.0

"I love how you teach your daughter life lessons in these vlogs. Such a good daddy!"

That comment on DNegs Vlog

He had extra money from the dealing job at LINQ and he was paying far less rent at Desort Manor. His bankroll would be much bigger today if he had stayed there (assuming that not much else would have changed).

He really lucked out with Neeme helping him, and lucked out by going on a massive heater. He did say something about being close to going broke and needing things to work out around the start of the 50 hours challenge.

It was 500 hours. But he stopped putting up those videos when his heater ended. At one point it got so bad that he was around $3-$4 an hour since coming to Vegas, and that was including his first 500 hours when he was winning.

For a while it seemed like he would go play 1-2 and lose $500 in session after seasion. That's when people started calling him a train wreck.

What's the deal with the lack of poker in his vlogs lately? Is it laziness? With his downswing is he paranoid about revealing his thought process? There is less poker than ever in his videos, which is ironic with the WSOP going on.

Definite laziness. He is putting the ABSOLUTE minimum effort in these days and its obvious

Maybe he should go back to being a nit instead of raising KToff from MP like he did in this last video.

I think it's a volitional strategy to further de-emphasize poker in the vlog, beyond his previous attempts of claiming it's not a poker vlog. He realizes he can't make a living at poker, but since his vlog is anchored around poker (whether he understands that or not), he's in a catch-22 - keep playing and losing to maintain the income from the vlog, or try to pivot away from poker while not losing his viewership.

If troop starts shooting heroin and banging hookers while sleeping out of his car minbuying at 1/2 then I'd start watching again. Does that mean I'm being hustled?

I honestly assume he must be nearing busto, especially if he tapped a big portion of his roll for his merchandise. Everyone says that shouldnt have cost him that much but he's a bad businessman and probably didnt research **** for vendors and overpaid on everything.

I just imagine he isnt playing as much because he's scared money now. If you clip the 2/5 upswing from his poker graph then he's really only up like 4500 for the year. We cant ignore the upswing because it IS money in the bank, but it could impact his confidence since he probably feels like a very very marginal winner at 1/2 which is his main game. Factor that in with living expenses and an arguably optimistic 2k/month earnings from youtube/whatever and he cant really have much more than a few buyins revolving at any point in time. My guess is he's just playing between paychecks from his alternate income sources.

Everyone used to flock to TBC's blog because he used to sleep on rooftops, get banned from casinos, Racist and homophobic rants, Martingale BJ and VBJ and run across the country every time he lost a bunch martingaling.

After seeing the same thing over and over and over it gets old tho.
The same will happen with Trooper.

You all been saying that for years and here we are

From June 2015 until Mid October of 2016 Trooper lost $8,174 playing poker. His 2016 hourly probably isn't too hot is it? His 2015 hourly is a lot worse than you thought.

No way he averages 7+ hrs per session. I doubt he is even logged into a game for 7 hours but if they put him on standby while he is away from the table he would need to be there for like 10 hours per session just to make 20 hours a week. He had a session recently where he played 1 orbit. ONE ORBIT!

The train wreck was sort of the draw at the beginning although I think most of us were rooting for him to rise from the train wreck and become successful. Instead it's been a steady dose of train wreck after train wreck.

He probably plays relatively tight range of hands but just doesn't know which ones he is supposed to be playing.

Steve you know so much about Trooper, how is it possible to be one of his biggest fanboys and one of his biggest trolls at the same time ?

Why doesn't Trooper play the WSOP? One lucky tournament and he could be good for a long time.

Does Trooper usually play the main event or no?

As a poker player you have 1 of 2 goals no?

Crush the cash games eventually at mid stakes or higher.

Bink a WSOP event.

Trooper has never played the main event. He used to grind WSOP SNGs many years ago. Aside from that I think the only WSOP event he played was the Colossus a couple years back and I believe a company staked him in that. He did try to play a $550 HU tournament at Golden Nugget this year which would have been huge for him if he won but he lost in round 1 as expected.