Ranges! Ranges! Trooper does not need no stink'n ranges. He soul reads!

New video from the Bellagio 2/5 poker.
One more video to come then we are going on the road to a secret destination stay tuned to find out where.

Thank you! I show all important pots, good, bad or ugly. I don't always make the correct decision, but luckily the Youtube commenters will tell me to fold when I am beat afterwards.

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he's mad at a guy for thinking about calling? lol wtf. does trooper even look at the cards after flop and re evaluate?

Watching your cards and not knowing anything else that is going on is pretty boring. Put in an overlay and or comeback later and add some voice over of your thoughts on the hands and the action etc..

Will do still new to this I will google overlays and try to get one in the next video.

Just some input on the designs: the grey "We are out" solid design. The white however has some very always font placement. Just my 2c.

I bet the guy with K10 was absolutely stunned to see troopers J10. I bet he was expecting either nuts (or close), or busted draw.

There is improvement.

I'm no video poker expert, but I have to ask -- you have AA88K and you held only the two 8s and dropped the second pair (AA) and the K. Why not just drop the K and keep the two pair?

Your camera angle at the poker table is good, I can both see your peek at the cards as well as just barely able to read the community cards. Seat 5 is good for your style of filming.

As someone else said, it would be a touch more compelling if you augmented the raw video with graphics, or an overlay. For my channel I add basic graphics with my video editor which can also do some very basic overlay stuff. There are several options. And/or inner-cut with you talking about the hand we are watching and your thought process -- not just -- "its a miracle I flopped top two pair AGAIN, whatever shall I do?" -- but perhaps how you chose a bet sizing based on your position and relative stack sizing to your opponents, etc perhaps even what you thought your opponent's holdings were.

Good interview with the street performer.

Good progress, keep up the good work!

Thanks for the comments. I always drop the 2 pair my thinking is instead of 1 card to come I get 3 cards to at least improve to a 3 of a kind. Chances to improve to a full house is slimmer I might be wrong but that is what I am thinking. I will try to find or design an overlay dont know how hard it is but i will look for one as for me talking I can do that but my voice is not the greatest. I am trying to keep the videos around 10 minutes if i can I am an ok poker player I just play my cards and I try to get a feel for what my opponents might be holding and go accordingly. But yea the street performer was great she has a great personality and was more then willing to do a short interview.

I recall him having a similar loss a ways back. This is probably bigger. Either way I believe the other loss was +/- 200 of this one.

Operation Uptick isn't over yet! There's still a chance to run it up.

I was thinking about this before watching the most recent vid, and the best thing that could happen to Trooper is to bust his Operation Uptick roll. Think about it. He is making absolutely nothing from poker during Operation Uptick. Perhaps his willingness to do this indicates that he doesn't need income from poker to survive, although I'm a bit skeptical of that. Imagine if Trooper played breakeven at 2/5 for months without busting his roll. Then what? Essentially he would be going months without income from poker.

BTW, Trooper after you bust your roll, feel free to use the above as an excuse. IE it was in your best interest to bust the roll. You have a good way of spinning failure into success.

If you never learn to play poker well, you won't move up either.

Yep. Wynn 1/3 is soft as butter. Still not sure if Trooper would be profitable there. Anyways, if I did an operation uptick it would probably look more like Grind 1/2 --> Wynn 1/3 --> Bellagio 2/5 --> Wynn 2/5 --> Bellagio 5/T

Trooper seemed oblivious to the fact that villain may think Trooper would double barrel air but not triple barrel air or that Trooper would play an 8 like this (rivered trips).

I said it before and I will say it again. Get a job and quit poker forever. Trooper you are not a winning player and are not willing to do what it takes to become one.

That was a palm to face moment. Trooper is a sad and pathetic man. He's been a real underachiever throughout his life. I will give him his props on building his vlog though. That is his one success and if it continues to grow is the one thing that could make him a success.

As Squid Face says, Trooper likes to dick around.

would have been interesting to see trooper playing 5/10. definitely would have been great for the vlog, probably not as great for his bankroll though.

5/10 is never going to happen. For trooper to even think about playing 5/10 for this uptick challenge just shows how delusional he is. With horrible fundamentals and mental game he will never make it past 2/5.

I think the Red Rock is pretty close to 400 feet so the Drone was higher then that wasn't it? But hey what do I know I couldn't even afford a drone like his...what's it like 1,200?


Back to Back losses wow we all knew that was coming.

If and I mean a big if he has 15k-20k then yes that makes him look way worse but I think after everything he bought and these two losses hes more then likely sitting at 3-5k




Yep we might have another broke Desert video coming soon.

Yep this is what happens when you play a marginal hand like J10 with no pot control at all.

I can't believe he didn't just leave or game select like he always professes to do.

I was shocked he didn't go allin on the flop with top pair the dude doesn't believe in pot control at all.

Can we please at least change the name to 'Operation Downtick'..

True, but I do agree with Trooper that Villain should have snap called considering amount already in the pot..

The last 3 minutes of his latest video says it all...
He is rationalizing his losses with "short-term, high variance, shottaking".
If things go bad, they go bad... yeah solid reasoning.

I'm actually not one of the bashing trooper guys and like his vlog.
But he needs to change his mindset to successfully move up to 2/5.
With this mindset i'm actually impressed he's a small winner at 1/2.

The J10 hand he describes is ridiculous. What the **** does he think he beats and he bets the whole way oop? Top pair weak kicker OOP, this is like poker 101 here.

Also the AJ hand he showed early on, same thing. When the K comes on the turn, there is only QJ and 10J that he is beating, and again he is OOP and he bets the whole way.

I love his videos, I really do. He is entertaining and is a good guy in general. He maintains a positive attitude, I like him. But Jeez Troop. You are bleeding buy-ins with one pair hands out of position. Does he even ask himself what he is beating?


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90% of the players at this level are terrible, so of course they should be doing things differently. However, the issue here is that a simple tank call put Trooper on full life tilt. He's probably still on tilt as I type this message.

There was nothing unusual about his opponent tank calling in this spot. Nothing at all. In fact, based on how tilted Trooper sounded relaying the hand history, I fully expected the villain to flip over trip 8s. If a villain had tank called vs me in that spot with trip 8s, I would have said "nice hand" in as friendly of a way as possible and then moved on to the next hand. It really should not be a big deal at all.

BTW, wouldn't surprise me if Trooper had helicoptered his cards face up with a chip on them showing that he's such a boss holding the "goods" lol. There is definitely a greater than 90% chance that Trooper made snide comments and/or berated the player for tank calling. If anyone was at the table and knows otherwise, feel free to set the record straight but it would certainly be out of character for him to handle this with class.

While not advisable considering the small bankroll, there can be justification for triple barrelling in both the JT spot and the AJ spot for value. Trooper's losing image at the time is actually more reason to go for thin value (players are more likely to call him down light). In order to go for thin value like this though you must have a strong read that more than half the time you will get called by worse (it's not reasonable to expect to fold out better here) and a read that villain is unlikely to have/bluff a missed draw here. Trooper's reading ability is absolutely atrocious though. He just bases everything on live tells. Live tells are important in spots, but the vast majority of decisions should be made based on hand ranges (ie based on the action of the hands, the history with the villain, villain profile, etc).

I guess it depends how you define small winner, but it's still not totally clear whether he is a small winner at 1/2, a small loser, or breakeven. Considering he hit the bad beat jackpot I'm pretty sure he's up overall though.

Wondering where Troopers supporters have gone. He needs your "you can do it troop", go get him" you know, the basic enabling phrases.


That last vlog was sooo juicy I have watched it 3 times and let the ads play. I owe him some money for the entertainment

He already had a habit of playing like this at 1-2. Might have done it more often when he was losing for months (but that's just speculation on my part).

It's also why I disagree with people that say he plays like an OMC. OMC types are way more cautious than he is and much less likely to make those types of risky plays.

I wonder what Molly thinks of this and how long it would take for her to start doubting him, especially after reading the Youtube comments criticizing his play. Knowing that she is aware of what is going on could put more pressure on him.

AJ hand was actually good I think.

The J10 hand was questionable up to the river but the river is absolutely a shove because your hand is too strong to c/f for $150 when there is 420 in there and you are not going to bluff catch here because of the pot to stack ratio. Yes sometimes opponent will check back a better hand but it is better to bet than call off here. I guess if you have a lot of history with some guys they will just never bluff or go for thin value and you can fold but not against a random guy.

why is this relevant?
Maybe she sees he's bad at his "job", so what?
If he can sustain himself and they have a good time..

(comment edited after reviewing the film) There was $570 in the pot after villain bet $150 which means Trooper needs to be good over 20% of the time to call. Vs some villains you are not good 20% of the time. Seems like a good spot for ol' Trooper to use his sick live reads. He has reads that are 100% accurate ya know.

Again, I disagree.

A lot of players are going to check back all Tx hands here.