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Originally Posted by Hellmuth was right
Even trooper is starting to get boring I used to watch his vlogs just to see when he was going to go broke. Now that he hasn't had a job in over a year and hasn't had a winning month since like April and still not broke it's obvious he's getting money from somewhere else. the suspense of his vlogs is completely gone now there is literally zero reason to watch his vlogs anymore.
I checked on this and he had a couple small winning months (ie up $564 in May and up $915 in August) but his losses were much bigger (down $1591 in June, down $2572 in July). He's actually breakeven going all the way back to the end of March. So that's nearly 6 full months of breakeven poker!
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Originally Posted by Hellmuth was right
I would start watching more if he blows up big or somehow hits a big score like a bbj and starts gambling huge.
Or if he starts having meltdowns again.
But right now- nothing big happening, no meltdowns, there's just really no reason to watch. I might catch about one vlog a week now.
Your points are very valid. His journey is no more interesting now than the journey of a guy working a regular 9 to 5 job. I think a lot of us tuned in to see him make it as a poker player. Then after finally realizing that he would never make it as a poker player we tuned in to watch the train wreck. However, now there is no poker success and there is no train wreck. His life is as mundane as any other joe schmoe with a desk job.
If Trooper made millions selling t-shirts that would be great for him, and would provide some new content for the vlog. However, that's not what I tuned in for. If it was, then I would watch Casey Neistat's vlogs and dozens of other vloggers. I tuned in to see the lifestyle of a guy trying to make his living as a poker player, not the lifestyle of a guy that makes his living selling tshirts who plays poker as a hobby.
He still updates his results every vlog, which gives the illusion that this is still a story about a poker grinder but those results are completely meaningless..ie they don't impact his life in any way. He has spent nearly 2 full months trying to win money to buy a motorized skateboard ffs for the amount of money that a 2/5 grinder could win in a single session. (btw, he's down $30 on that challenge for anyone that cares).
He said he has a couple things in the pipeline which will make the vlog interesting. Hopefully that's the case but I don't think it will satisfy those that tuned in to watch the life of a poker grinder. It would be nice if a new vlogger came in and filled that void of being a guy that posts daily vlogs about trying to make it as a poker player. Maybe Trooper is just one of a kind though and can't be replaced but that seems hard to imagine.