This is the greatest and most accurate assessment of Tim to date. The ultimate narcissist which also brings a lack of self awareness. What I loved the most is how he goes on Monkey tilt after a guy flopped a boat to his aces up after some stupid preflop behavior by him because life is too short or some other deluded fantasy and how you can't possibly fold aces after the flop and how tilting off more money with 9 high against AA is "irrelevant"
also when he got in the car he lost it and had another meltdown.

That is the second time and like I said. Tim really needs a reality check. To be honest he should stop playing every day. I said after this first meltdown. Variance is bad enough to the good player but if you are a mediocre player who tilts and donks off chips when you get ur aces cracked playing every day will get costly and with no consistent income Tim will go broke if he hasn't already.

If I was him I would quit playing for the short term, get some good books and start reading and start playing short sessions with stop wins and loss in place. Then go over how he is playing.

The sad truth is his core supporters are very poor players who keep giving him false hope to keep playing every day.

Oh yea I also love how he went on tilt and straddled and caught aces. Made nothing on them when if he didn't straddle and played cool and collected he could have made more money. Pure Tim.

It can't be real and it's his ploy for two plus two banter about his vlog.

But Sadly

I think it's real now.

What happened to his commitment to winning poker? It seemed to be working but one morning he woke up and felt like commitment to winning poker was overrated.

74o does pretty well in a BB defense range actually. These hands have good equity realization, even the offsuit combos.

What does everyone think of Trooper and how he played the first hand AA?

Amazing insight from the latest Ryan Depaulo: Degenerate Gambler Vlog --

Awesome observation.

Very shortsighted.

Let us see, buy the button, make up some dumb excuse using the cliche life is too short as to why now he is in the worst position. Criticize a guy for raising too much with a medium pair (Which should have told tim he has 9s 10s Js) then splashes the pot with a knee jerk raise (Thus telling everyone at the table what he has) then proceeds to make another kneejerk action instead of watching the flop and accessing the hand thus betting into a full house.

Think it's safe to say Tim played that as bad as he could. Could he get off the hand? A good player could possibly but Tim can't. The money would have never have went in preflop and Tim can't fold aces. You know life is too short, then tossing chips makes you a maniac and the guy flat called. So it's shove an overbet rather than a probe bet.

As others have said Tim is a terrible NLHE player. He has no concept of reading opponents and has a major tilt issue.

You're still high on the list. But relax, mitsi is way higher and is only getting a bit of credit for tenure. So smarten the **** up mistsi, this isn't the original thread anymore. I deleted two of your posts in the last day in line with the 27offsuit post.

But no worries Mitsi, if you get exiled you can move to the Psychology forum or whatever. You might have fun there.

They also have a bunch of equity for having your backer dump you if your realization is affected by shrooms or something.

But your forgiven because I think you're an MTT guy.

I gotta say the vlogs where Trooper loses $1000+ are clearly the best vlogs that he makes these days.

First, there is excitement and interest because he does something that most people don't do. Anyone can get coffee, drive a car, and complain about life, but not everyone can drop $1500 in a $1/2-3nl game.

Second, those vlogs are filled with real emotional rants where you can see his true vulnerability. You see a kid who just really messed up try to justify and reason that his actions were right because he needs to prove his worth to his audience. He needs to put on a "brave" face and explain how he is still cool when in reality he's just hoping his "friends" (really his viewers) don't laugh at him and stop watching after losing all respect for him.

Third, it is simply hilarious to hear him talk in such a clueless way. From explaining hand histories where he doesn't even acknowledge what his opponent could possibly have because it hasn't even crossed his mind after a lifetime of poker to all of the statements he makes that expose just how completely self unaware he is. He will literally say how stupid his opponents are and in the next breath will explain how he just lost $1500 to them and in the next sentence will explain how proud he is with his play that night and that he kept re-buying without tilting and immediately follow that up with a hand history of shoving 9 high preflop to dust off his last $300 buy in. It's a reg telling you his bad beat story (when he was behind the WHOLE time) times 100!

The only sad part is that he's being 100% real the whole time. It's almost like he's faking it and playing it up for the camera but after many years and seeing him at the tables a few times, I am pretty sure this is him being 100% genuine.

Luckily, poker is his hobby now and if he loses under $2,000 for the whole year or maybe even breaks even, he has a very cheap hobby which he gets HUNDREDS of hours of entertainment from. He doesn't drink, watch sports, or do anything else fun so this is what he spends his hat income on. And food, he also spends a ton of money on low quality junk food.

Also, it all makes a lot more sense when you stop thinking of Trooper as playing poker and start thinking of him as gambling to scratch an itch. He likes the thrill of shoving all in, he calls off when he is behind hoping to catch his miracle card, and he always justifies is loses by saying that he runs really bad (but never mentions being lucky when winning). The guy is a gambling addict and even though he has hundreds of hours of video of himself doing it, is still unaware that he has a gambling problem.

He didn't really make villain Go Gamble preflop. He only about 2.5x'ed it. Gotta charge villains more in the long run to more than make up for the times like this that they hit that set on him.

oh yay, here comes Mr Psychology himself.

Never met him personally but Trooper actually seems deep down to be a good enough guy to me. Not perfect but not bad enough to where I root for him to fail. I would like to see him do well. I think he's really frustrated as of late and we're seeing that with some of the negativity towards people (Vegas driver etc.) and the 5 buy in donk off. He could turn himself into a really sympathetic character for his vlog if he at least pretended to study the game and had a less know it all attitude about the game. The many year sample size just doesn't lie.
With this said I enjoy the vlogs non ironically and will watch most of them for the Vegas lifestyle and video production. I think he would do well with a living in Vegas series where he exposes all cool mostly unknown things for casuals like myself to see what it's really like.

I enjoy reading mrducks posts, and I reckon others do too. Why go after a poster like that?
I think a lot of mrducks posts are on point

One time I spent maybe a hour talking to the guy initially after he briefly started his blogging. He seemingly was a guy with a reasonable demeanor.

Then after he ramped up he went full degen. He's definitely not as amped up like his vlog persona, but it's definitely has rubbed off him (not for the better either)

I dont think he's a winning player either, but then again, 90%+ of players arent.

I haven't seen many of Troop's vlogs, but how many times does anyone in here remember him actually folding aces (or even kings) postflop? Has it ever happened?

Agreed. I root for the guy but keep my expectations realistic. Nothing that has happened since he moved to Vegas suggests that Trooper has any awareness or interest in doing the things necessary to become a better Poker player. So unless his Go Gamble brand really takes off, which is unlikely, Trooper is probably just going to tread water in life as long as he can. And there is nothing wrong with that. He can pay his bills and provide himself with a reasonable standard of living which is more than a lot of people can say. Maybe someday he might even get into a long term romantic relationship that will provide him with some happiness.

+1

Besides Trooper, there is another member of the struggling 1/2 vlogger club: PokerPriest. In case you weren't following him he quit his $80k/yr accounting job last year to play poker full time and vlog. He started at the 2/5 stakes but had a downswing so had to drop to 1/2. His most recent session was -$1161 at the Aria. But unlike Trooper I assume he at least has a decent amount of savings and potential job skills if he decides to work full time again.

mitsi and mrducks see eye-to-eye on things. Whodathunk?

We all know how you love to revel in negativity and the pain of others. I'm sure you miss the good old days when mrducks' posted 5 times a day and each post was 8 paragraphs long.

mitsi,

Considering R*R mentioned you by name as well, just know that my latest culling post was brought on by one of your posts. Fella.

I don't understand people who quit great careers to grind low stakes. In order to make poker a prudent financial decision he needs to replace about $106,000.00 annually (benefits usually equal about 30% of salary). Just no way you are going to cut that at 2/5 or 1/2 not to mention the longer you are out of the workforce the less marketable you will be in your profession. Not to mention you are usually going to have a lot more insecurity (variance, game availability/quality), more difficulty getting credit and lose out on your fun hobby (I think the happiest players are the good rec players. Once you are depending on poker for a living it becomes a lot less fun).

Obviously all true, but:

1. White collar jobs can be soul crushingly awful, and

2. Without a family to support, probably doesn’t need to replace the full income

1. god yes.. I work from home and still hate my grind/job.

2. true.. if I was just worried about myself (-wife, -2 kids), I'd be more than happy to just grind low stakes.

an accountant will be fine even with a 3 year gap

it's better to take a shot now, fail and go back to 9-5 than to never try and wonder what if