He got destroyed in his comments section in the last video. Usually it's a lovefest and he's tagging all of the comments with a heart showing that he read them and thanking people but not a single heart in the comments from the last video. He must be pissed beyond belief. I seriously wonder if he goes home and cries in the shower.

On the other hand, it was actually one of the most entertaining vlogs in ages it seems. He should talk hands more often as it clearly gets his viewers engaged, even if it is making him the butt of the jokes.

It has to be tough to put together another vlog if he lost big again, especially after he got so much criticism in his own comment section. He could have family members (even ones we don’t know about) watching in addition to friends and even enemies. He probably just isn’t in a hurry to put together another video that makes him look bad.

And I remember Boski saying it was painful to relive moments at the poker table that sucked, and putting together a video of a bad night at the tables doesn’t sound like fun.

My favorite video recently (besides the latest one) was one when he yelled at a driver that was honking at him while on the boosted board.

You can see why he never bothered to post hands on 2+2. If he posted them on the live low-stakes NL forum he would get a lot of criticism. To be fair, I think a lot of people can be afraid to post hands for that reason.

To Trooper's credit, he somehow picks himself up off the mat, and post what must be a painful Vlog to make. And he has to do this time after time.

He said he had the first 10 & shot 267, if you have the first 10 it puts you in the 280s. Maybe he meant the first 9 but he said 10.

NEXT!

Trooper getting the instagram action going on today.


Going Christmas shopping again? He can't have that big a circle

Yeah I agree. Taking a working day to edit vlogs of all the years of bad sessions without lying... and going back to the well requires a level of resilience that I'll never have.

He's a real one for that.

Trainwrecks are interesting...

...but I'll say it would be sweet to see the T-man string together some winning sessions with some good play.

Kinda like the bullet train speeding by at 200mph...

If he would just pay for 1 month of a training site like upswing, which you can find a coupon and get for only $50, and actually spend a ton of hours in it for the month, he would turn into a winning player, and the vlog would get more popular and more subs, and he would quit losing $1000 in a session. lol

For sure.

But Trooper have never wanted to work on his game. To lazy and to much entitlement tilt i believe. In the earlier stages of his Vegas move, several live crushers from 2+2 reached out to him offering to help him with his game for free- Squid and Limon for starters. He turned them down.

Thats a part of why i enjoy the tilted trainwreck vlogs where he torches off a grand in the 1/2 games, because thats what you get when youre being a lazy ass not working on your game but think its just to show up at the casino and print. Also its hilarious the way he talks like a long term winning pro, when in reality he is indeed a huge fish with huge tilt issues.

I mean, Trooper should easily be able to pull $10K-15K from the games through the year. With the game selection he has available to him in Vegas, i mean come on.

Instead he proceeds to dump $7-8k in a year. Thats quite the difference, a total swing of 17-25 K.

What makes you say that? Do you think Trooper already has some skill in the game?

If someone trolled the LLSNL forum with a gimmick account that posts hands the Trooper played and tries to defend them with a similar thought process, how long before the account would be banned?

Please someone do this.

His level of play isn't the issue. The overall lack of any sort of progression is the problem. Who wants to watch a vlog that is basically the exact same every time?

Sure, if he was getting better at poker it would help, but its not the entire problem.

Well it's been 3 days since Red Rock and no Vlog so i guess he must of really gotten blown out of the water to delay or not even want to post this one just WOW.

Genius. Please someone do this and link back here

His level of play is an issue in that if he was actually decent and knew what he was doing, then he could share more interesting hands and do quality hand analysis. Doing this would increase his viewership and he could be getting the 50k+ views that rampage, Mariano, and others receive. Right now his vlogs are nothing more than following an non descript middle aged white guy drink coffee, hang out with his girlfriend, and eat for 10 minutes every few days.

How has nobody thought of that before now?

Exactly. Trooper has basically the same number of subs he had a few years ago, maybe he's gone up a few thousand. And he cant even get 10k views on most videos. Meanwhile guys like Brad Owen have 250k subs and are pulling up to 500k views. Because poker players enjoy at least some part of a poker vlog involving...actual poker.

Its also because the "poker" recollections in his vlog are completely without detail IE "The river was a 6, or maybe a 7, who can remember..."

Recently I've gotten into the poker vlogs of a Japanese vlogger, Masato Yokosawa. He is the top poker vlogger on Youtube with 535k subs (typical views on his vids are 500k-1.5m). #2 is Dnegs. He has good poker results, with $850k life earnings on Hendon mob and plays cash games typically from 5-10 to 25-50 if they're offered.

His bankroll management and money management in general seem to be awful. Even though he had a score of $167k in January, he claims he was busto as of a few weeks ago and borrowed $30k (from one of his friends/producers?) to make a recent trip to Vegas that he is vlogging.

When he got to Vegas he was living in a cheap Airbnb but didn't like it and moved to a strip hotel shortly after. He also has at least one other person with him, his cameraman/editor. So paying for flights to vegas for at least 2 people, strip hotel, strip food, etc. adds up quickly and seems unsustainable long term. He also gambles in the pits and said he lost $7k in blackjack in one recent vlog.

His main problem is that he is Japanese and casino gambling is illegal in Japan. So any time he wants to play live, he has to travel overseas, pay for expensive hotels and food (he either wants to live the baller life or wants to show it off for the vlog), he probably has 1 or 2 people on his pay roll too. His vlogs are edited very professionally, similar to most Japanese TV shows. If you've seen the show Gamecenter CX, the tone and style is the same. His expenses seem out of control but as long as he can get people to loan/stake him, I guess he'll keep being a pro. And his vlog is done so well (and probably making decent money) so he may be able to transition to future media work in the future. He's even selling tacky merchandise, just like most of the other vloggers.

It's an interesting comparison to the vloggers we usually talk about. Neeme and Owen seem to be successful midstakes grinders. Trooper, despite his losses, seems to be doing fine financially. Those guys all do the shooting/editing themselves and the results are amateurish, though still good. Yokosawa is a high stakes cash/tourney player with awful money management but by far the most successful vlog. His vlogs are Japanese only with no English subs but you can still check them out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwK...VN0fDNZFw7XEOQ

Vlog looks pretty interesting and fun. Just wish it had proper Japanese subtitles which can then be translated into English. Right now it only has automatically generated subtitles which are terrible. If you enjoy the video please comment for them to add Japanese subs!

There already are Japanese subtitles for much of what is going on. It's a trope of Japanese TV shows (kind of like how lots of English sitcoms have fake laughs). I think it's to emphasize what the people are saying and also Japanese is a much more visual language than English. I could probably contact him and offer to do English subs but I doubt he would offer pay much so it wouldn't be worth the time and effort. Everyone on the internet expects you to work for free and you get paid in "exposure."

In his latest vlog, his producer called him up and told him to go to 50 casinos, gamble $100 at each and see how much he can make. He played pit games in various casinos and after 49 was -$2200. Bellagio was the last casino so he was going to play poker but there weren't any high stakes games running so he put the remaining $2800 on roulette, won and finished the challenge +$600.

These variety and docu-tainment type shows are at least semi-scripted so it's hard to say how much of this is real or fake. It is very well produced so I don't think they're necessarily going to let the truth get in the way of a good story. I assume at least the poker results are real. If you check his hendon mob, his only tourney score on his Vegas trip was a $20k 8th place finish in a $10k Wynn tourney. In a recent vlog he fired 6 bullets into a $1600 Wynn deep stack tourney and I did look up the tourney so I assume that was real as well.

You definitely do have to hand it to the trooper for uploading losing sessions, i imagine that really, REALLY sucks, but thats why i at least really enjoyed his early vlogs when i went back and watched them. The honesty. Now it is not so honest. He has mostly won year over year, this is a bad year for him.