He has a poorly written blog. Can’t imagine how odd a blog from him would be.

Rampage isn't a bad player. Its way more likely that someone with his personality goes far in this game than someone who wants to play 1/3 or 2/5 for a year to develop solid poker fundamentals. You can't learn how to bluff correctly (ie. where the pain points are) without punting off in a couple of situations where it was never going to work. Sure, he could probably use some combo/blocker/math/solver work to realise the true EV of certain spots and then take/pass on them as appropriate.

In any event, given he presumably had most of himself for his WSOP bracelet, clearly crushed 1/3 and 2/5 last year, plus made $50k from YouTube.. I dont think he cares either way.

Easy to quantify someone as "not bad," but clearly he's playing in games that require him to be "good," both in relative and absolute sense.

Just like most young people who found success with mostly talents alone (and lots of positive variance), they think everything can be solved without hard work. Can't really blame them either.

But he's getting a pretty good reality check that winning in higher stakes actually require some real commitment to the game. If there's a future bet on whether Rampage would be around in mid- to high-stake poker in 3 years, I would take the under.

And I think he can actually make it in poker with such great head-start, but I don't think this is where he sees himself in few years. I would be disappointed if he didn't pivot out of poker.

Whereas Trooper would happily rinse and repeat what Rampage has done for eternity.

Well, to be less ambiguous; I believe he would be a winning player in an average 5/10 lineup.

But, without going too deep in to strat, people generally lack the mental framework to correctly assess whether bluffs are correct or not. A player capable of some spew who can then learn to correctly control it will do very well.

his main problem is calling too much not bluffing

I'm not sure about that.

Check out the 1:07 mark to the 1:50 mark

Rampage is down about in his last 3 sessions (all $5/10 I presume)

https://youtu.be/z3QofqZFOrU?t=67

Wow Rampage is down unlike three sessions the annual salary of Trooper.

Rampage can mitigate his buy ins with merch and YT revenue. His channel is 10-20x bigger than others out there doing the same thing. He'll be more successful in the long run because his wins will be bigger and his following is large for merch/paid influencer opportunities.

If he pulls 35-40k from his channel and merch, why bother wasting time at 1/3 this year? It's tournament season.

This Vlog demonstrates how Rampage does so well at $2/5 and below.
Rampage bullies and bluffs his way to a nice big profitable $2/5 session.
It's harder to do that at $5/10 and above.

https://youtu.be/z3QofqZFOrU

Yeah, I think Rampage would run over most 2/5 tables and that's where he should be playing but with the vlog you've got to keep moving up stakes to at least 5/10 and taking shots to keep the excitement up.

RDP is the most entertaining vlogger ainec.

All facts. His bit about his trophies and the attic had me dying. Did anyone catch the line about "not begging on Patreon" in his new rap/commercial insert?

Boski is my favorite, but I like many.

Really don't understand Brad Owen's massive appeal.

I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like RDP IRL, but love his vlogs. I just wish he would post them more often.

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I also played at bellagio yesterday with none other than vlogger extraordinaire andrew neeme. Wish i wouldve seen ole trooper but didnt see him. He got the best of me for like 100$ or something, so congratulations to andrew.

Interesting: Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme Meet Up Game, August 20th at 6pm,
at Resorts World Las Vegas Poker Room.

August 20th is a Friday.

The comments to this vlog are brutal... True, but brutal.

I missed that, which one was it?

+1 and Joey the mush is a nice side kick

This. 5/10 is a weird no-mans land that is a mix of sort of dullard players who have worked their way up slowly from 2/5 to be marginally profitable at 5/10 and pretty sharp people with modest poker experience. But once you get to 10/20 and bigger everyone is pretty smart and with the exception of the occasional whale everyone knows the game decently. That's not to say you can't beat them (you can) but you have to be good on a lot of axis - know the game well, smart, observant, mentally stable etc. to get a high win rate.

Rampage seems decently smart, but he does not know the game well and does not seem stable. I think 2/5 is probably where he's break-even. If he would reduce VP$IP on every street (he both bets/raises and calls too much and folds too little) he could probably win at 5/10.

If McKinsey and Co. or Boston Consulting Group management consultants did a time and motion analysis of Trooper's management of his time and the way he handles the activities that make up his day, they would probably give him very high scores when it comes to efficiency and synergy.

Almost ever single activity that Trooper engages in synergistically contribute to the overall purpose as well as efficiently empower each other in a way that optimally support each other...

The drive to the Strip contributes to vlog content since he seems to have his video on during his drive...most of the time it would just be generic content but sometimes it could be something unusual and worth commenting on.

His walking and booster boarding commutes do the same thing. It contributes directly to the content in terms of monologue as well as sights and sounds.

His deliveries help in the advertising of his brands as well as help to provide content. And by having selfies with those people that he delivers to, he creates name recognition himself, more loyal audiences, as well as word of mouth endorsements (which marketing and sales science considers the highest forms of advertising).

The poker of course anchors the whole thing and serves as the hub that glues all of the other activities together. You can say that the poker works as a "loss leader" (which somehow makes money) that creates the domino effect which in turn synergizes all of Trooper's daily activities into a whole that is much bigger than the sum of its parts. It is like there is a Trooper Wheel of daily activities, the poker is in the center of that wheel and the spokes are the walking, driving, coffee drinking, delivering, ranting, etc. And you can visualize cause and effect arrows that point from each activity towards all of the other activities in synergistic and holistic fashion.

In short, Trooper is an excellent time manager who many people can learn from to better their own career or entrepreneurial performance.

The likes of the late Fredrick Taylor, Abraham Maslow, Peter Drucker as well as contemporary business thought leaders like Tom Peters, Jim Collins, and Gary Vernaychuck would be impressed by the Trooper.

McKenzie?

is the difference between 2/5 and 5/10 huge?

100% player dependent.

So I don’t come here to talk s*** a lot… But when I do it is to say johnnie vibes is not good at poker.

His brother has to be funding him right?