When Trooper first got Big Berkey, he had a huge Man Crush on it.

He was fawning all over it, couldn't stop talking about it.

Love was in the air.

Trooper still occasionally gives Big Berkey a shout-out.

Big Berkey is the R2-D2 of Trooper's existence.

It's just too bad that Big Berkey can't teach Trooper how to play poker

I like how he thanks everyone in his vlog for buying all of his stuff. And then says how he loves his fans. Are there actually people shelling out money for that crap?

Only time will tell. Cant wait to see how this story ends. It really is like the Truman Show. Do you think we'll still be watching Trooper vlogs in 5 or 10 years? What will he be doing then? How will the all time final trooper vlog end?

Funny thing is if trooper actually got honest with himself about his poker abilities and decided to get coaching or just commit to learning and studying to improve he could actually generate some interesting poker content for the vlog.

With the increasingly saturated vlog market and the decline in quality of his own content he really should just go to every other day and dedicate the freed up time to poker study. He'd end up with higher quality random crap since it would be less diluted and he'd have a new journey to document.

Seems pretty clear he won't get past thinking there's nothing for him to learn though I guess.


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Yes. He gets 10K to 15K views per video. There is a large portion of his audience that doesn't read or even look at the comments section and just takes EVERYTHING he says at face value. These are probably people who have no idea about poker strategy and consider it the same as blackjack or any other table game in a casino.

These people think he is some amazing poker playing professional who is so cool to afford Starbucks multiple times a day and have his own channel on YouTube and have his own clothing line that even includes MUGS! Wow!

Those people look up to him and buy his shirts. Some of them feel bad for him for trying so hard and getting unlucky so often. Ignorance is bliss

So tilting that in Daniels video the Twerking party was out of focus yet the close-ups of Greg Raymer were crystal clear every time

He might have done this but now that someone else mentioned it in this evil gambling forum, it isn't his own idea so he can never do this or else the trolls win!

He has 28.5k subs. If 1% of them buy something and he makes $5 per sale, then that's almost $1500. Even if 0.5% of his subs buy 1 thing each, then it still should be +EV for him.

This is very accurate. Well said ducks

I found the twerking party a very lame and desperate way to try and get empty views to his vlog. I think people got saturated with his daily vlogs being so long (keep it around 10-12 minutes max instead of 17+ minutes ) and getting to be repetitive (sorry but even the life of a high stakes grinder becomes just a job at some point).

People think he is kinda hokey and annoying with his journaling and constant mentioning of veganism. I actually think he approaches life extremely well but he is horrible at making it seem interesting to the camera. I think his vlog doesn't have a clear goal or focus so it seems kind of pointless. Plus, even with a professional editor, the visual presentation is much further from Neistat quality than Neeme. The editor might be a pro but I'm not sure what sort of cameras DNegs uses in getting the raw footage for the editor.

Daniel's gone 6 vlogs without hitting 70K views on a video after several strong vlogs and 3 100K+ videos. To be honest, he comes across as scripted and fake even though I think he's genuinely a nice and real guy. He just can't present it well into the camera. He's somewhat cocky but if I had his money and poker success, I would feel reason to be that way too to a degree.

His twerking video (with twerk party in the title and a screenshot of 2 female butts) got under 40K views in a day while Neeme's poker video (with a screen shot of pocket aces) got over 50K views.

Someone please give Negreanu a better vlog consultant/manager.

Someone corrected me earlier that he gets closer to $10 per shirt and I think they are right.

The shirt business is easy money for any of the poker vloggers. I think Neeme's simple design is probably a better product though since it can be worn without seeming like a degenerate or a teenager. I can see Neeme turning that into a brand while Trooper has nothing brand-able on his shirts and their appeal is too narrow.

Favorable can mean SO MANY things and be applied in so many situations. It doesn't even have to be poker and I feel that Neeme will be able to expand his reach and vlog beyond the niche poker market into sell help, motivational guru, luxury lifestyle, or whatever other mass appeal direction he chooses to take his vlog and image.

Just looking at Neeme's shirt store versus Trooper's you can see a major difference in presentation/professionalism. And to Trooper's credit, I don't think that Neeme is the genius behind his shop. I feel like his girlfriend (who probably shops for clothes way more than Neeme) helped with making the shirts and shop seem like an apparel store should. It would be helpful if Trooper had someone who could help him with stuff but you gotta be nice to people and have friends for that.

More incredible insights. You are the best vlog commentator on this thread. Spot on analysis

No. It is not accurate. Mrducks has a boner for all things negative regarding trooper. I watch his vlogs, I cheer for the guy, and want to see him succeed. Would I buy his stuff? No. Would I buy him a coffee? Maybe. Do I think he has great poker strategy? Not necessarily. But his vids are showing his life, warts and all. And I enjoy it.
Look at these posts here. Just negative post after negative post. If trooper did exactly what you suggest you'd still rip him. And if you say anything positive about him you're called a sock account.
Get a life, ducks. You want the guy to fail, we get it. Your bankroll on negativity is unlimited. You must feel a real sense of tingling pride when the guy mentions you indirectly in his vlogs. Go buy yourself a "The Forum Insult is the Juice" t-shirt
Anyways, ride my nuts.

Just like the way he left Florida.

He will place his last $2,000 in his sock and drive into the night.

Looks like he still has plenty of motivation to do the vlogs because he really hates the idea of having to get even a part time job.

So if his roll is so big why not play 2-5? What was the point of operation uptick? I know fans were bugging him to play 2-5 but was he trying to impress a girl? He just suddenly seems less motivated now.

The comparison is useless unless you split it by stakes. Otherwise you can just watch operation uptick for virtually all of his biggest wins (2/5 games) and his biggest loss I believe (5/T). However, if you went through the historical 1/2 data you would find he has only a handful of big wins at 1/2 but lots of big losses.

I don't know what makes you think he's going to change. He has character flaws that you can't just turn off overnight. These are flaws that he would first have to recognize and then work towards fixing. I don't think he'll even recognize his flaws much less work to try to fix them.

Ehhh, if he became a good poker player his vlog would be boring just like everyone elses. The trainwreck factor is the most interesting thing about Trooper's vlog.

I think it was just something he found interesting.

Not comparable since Daniel produces daily vlogs and Neeme doesn't.

You have to pay into the system with social security so I'm not sure how much he has done this with his waiting jobs here and there. I'm sure he doesn't report his tips so he probably pays very little taxes.

It seems that him getting a serving job would pay him the same as his vlogging thing but he wouldn't have to work 7 days a week and would have some personal privacy.

He has quit plenty of things in life so far and dropping the vlog when he gets tired of it would be no major surprise. He would downgrade his life to lower his expenses and would get some job just to get by.

If Trooper took the help he was offered here he would have gotten free coaching and free help here with his game and he would be much better off today. There were plenty of positive posts at the time and I thought people looked excited that he was offered so much help after he went broke as a 1-2 NL pro.

Thanks for registering an account just to write that. It will probably get deleted soon but that made me laugh. It's a good response and better than the typical hating on the hater (aka me) that gets posted in this thread.

LOL at the bolded stuff above and I mean that from the point of view that it's a clever remark and NOT laughing at you. I would by a t-shirt that says "My bankroll on negativity is unlimited".

Too easy. Sometimes it's just too damn easy.

Seems like the most miserable people ITT are actually the people supporting Trooper.

Vlogs were released on the same day. I don't know how to find what time the vlog was released exactly, as factoring that would make it a more accurate comparison, but with Daniel having way more subs and pimping out his girlfriend and her friends for views while Andrew releases a normal poker focused vlog, it is VERY comparable.

If you can't compare Daniel to Andrew in this super niche sub category of vlogs on YouTube, who can you compare Daniel to?

The funniest thing about this is it's clear you have been reading this thread.

Btw, when are you going to play 2-5? You've been losing subs and moving back down to 1-2 isn't going to help.

No, it's not comparable. If Neeme released vlogs every single day then each individual vlog would receive less views.

Neeme coming with the quality wsop content. Sometimes his stuff is so good I think "maybe I'll start some sort of vlog" then I slap the millennial part of me and remind myself no one wants to watch that.

This will probably be quoted 6 months from now when I inevitably contradict myself