First, still no answer on WHY Trooper was late and no apology to PokerKraut or PokerKraut's or his own fans for tanking the weight loss challenge and being ridiculously late for the final weigh in. On Twitter he claims it's between him and Kraut and that it's been handled but he is actually still blaming Kraut somehow for this whole debacle. SMH. Trooper is DELUSIONAL!
Now, his challenge in principle is a good idea. Yes, I'm actually praising Trooper after all the bashing because doing a short term ladder climb up in stakes is GREAT for the vlog even if it is completely stupid for his bankroll and his poker game. It's definitely more fun to watch the vlog results if you know there are consequences (positive or negative) to a win versus a loss. It's been years of win $200, lose $300, win $66, lose $85, win $457, lose $963...whatever. There is no running total or progress reports or graphs or charts or anything that happens after he reports his results. There's no reward or penalty so the win or lose becomes arbitrary. (Although some good fans have made a tracking in the past of his results FOR HIM - Trooper is so f*ckin' lazy - there is nothing for his YouTube fans.)
But now you know if he wins to get up $1000 total, he's moving up in stakes and SOMETHING NEW HAPPENS (for the first time in years - minus Aruba and Austria).
As great of an idea as this is, it would have been better 2 years ago when he started vlogging in Vegas. How cool would it have been if someone started a vlog where they play 1/2nl and if they book a win, move up to 1/3nl, and then 2/5nl, and then 5/10nl and if they lose they drop down a level? Wait, didn't ANDREW NEEME do EXACTLY this a few months ago when he started his vlog. Good job taking 5 months to copy Neeme's idea after Neeme DOUBLED your subs from scratch.
Will this challenge work? Well, it's very short term and there's a possibility that Timmy gets super lucky (oh no, he doesn't believe in luck - which I'm sure is a lie because losers like him are always superstitious to explain why bad things happen to them) and moves up to 2/5nl and then set over sets someone to move up to 5/10nl. Heck he might run hot and win a session or two at 5/10nl. That would be super exciting for the vlog.
But if he fails, it will be depressing to see him knocked down a peg. Hopefully he will keep doing this challenge again and again even if he busts the $2000.
It would make more sense to put a time deadline on the ladder steps so if he gets stuck at level 2 (2/5nl), he can pocket that profit and start again going from 1/2nl up to 2/5nl. Maybe add a step of 1/3nl going between 1/2nl and 2/5nl.
And he needs an end goal at the 5/10nl level because he can't sustain that more than a few sessions and will definitely go busto so mayve if he can hold his own for some time, he considers the mission complete and starts at step 1 again.
I would love it if he ended up at Neeme's table at 2/5nl or 5/10nl and got hand analyzed by Neeme