Shoot now you made me want to go watch that year of WSOP I loved that guy Hevad Khan to me that was the greatest year for WSOP so many characters!

Trooper is playing head games with us. The Title of the Vlog is "Nothing Stops the Gamble" and Trooper stops himself from gambling.

https://youtu.be/4WoBslKHXiE

All hail the mighty Trooper. Dance with the Techno TROOPER97.
Nordic Viking Poker God.., Go Gamble for President !!!

https://youtu.be/CZHpkdf8VR8

Lool. wTf. Is this LVnightcrawler? My favorite Viking is Lagertha

No, unfortunately not. I think the fun police old man coffees on this board took care of that permanently. It's just seems like that 3F would leap at the opportunity to life coach if given the chance.

I found that quite ironic myself. Tim is figuring out his lifestyle isn't sustainable. I can't see how he plays poker daily, he is barely a break even player and with his tilt issues he can't afford many more $1000 losses after his aces get cracked with J high.

Jokes on him. If he filed as self employed the prior year and listed his poker income he could have filed for UI as long as he met overall minimal income requirements. Oh wait scratch that he probably lost money playing poker so no UI for him....

He was never self employed as a professional poker player, at least not in 2019. Possibly a few years before when he was trying to play for a living.

Just playing a lot of poker doesn't mean you are self employed as a poker pro, unless you are actually making a significant amount of your total income from it.

He was self employed as a Youtuber tho with ad rev and sales from merch. But wouldn't get any UI money unless he actually filed and paid taxes for 2019 for that business.

Trooper did not get a stimulus check, insinuated in one video, he was against government aid out of principle.

The reality is, Trooper doesn't file tax forms. Trooper missed out on a lot of government aid (stimulus, PPP, UI, food stamps etc) by not filing.

With an E.I.N. number in the right state, a few clicks got just about any "small business owner" a PPP Loan for 10k+ at the start of covid. On the other side of things, I know many people personally who were getting the max unemployment benefit in Vegas with the economic boost ($1040/week untaxed). Combine that with rent forebearance and the pandemic made for a nice government paid vacation for a few folks.

I went down a rabbit hole on Reddit and saw many posters giving the details on how easy it was to get these this help during the pandemic. Many people made more money than they ever have in their life due to the federal unemployment boost during 2020.

I'd stopped watching Trooper's videos for a couple of years. Watching them now I'm glad to see him doing well. Just like others have said, it's not a poker vlog any more, but that's his choice. He seems to be in a better place (literally and mentally) than he was a few years ago and I hope it continues. I'm hardly going to model my life choices on his, but I want to watch him succeed and hope he does.

I know it isn't a Vegas-based vlog but I miss Jaman Burton's content. I'm sure he'll get back to it when things get back to normal but he was smashing it.

Tough guy Trooper is going strong lately.

https://twitter.com/TheTrooper97/sta...65788559699969

Wait how do you know that? I thought with an online business you have to report income and file taxes like everyone else? That makes no sense unless you're saying he doesn't file any of that reported income?

Are you the guy that posted this on YouTube?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=CZHpkdf8VR8

Ryan Depaulo still on top

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Haha I do enjoy his videos and take on Troop. Does seem a tad bit stalkerish?

No.

I watch his vlogs, that said, he is easily the most obnoxious of all poker vloggers. It's a struggle to get thru a video of his.

I did enjoy seeing a tournament vlog. Ryan Depaulo has been running above life ev for some time now.

https://youtu.be/cmtAcl-IwuY

Ben Deach at the Peppermill in Reno.

https://youtu.be/mof9NvsRkS0

oh wow, he is insane!
that was very entertaining

For all we know both Trooper and Lady Trooper could have gotten checks from the government. We don’t know.

I thought that YouTube has video makers' social security numbers and issues them 1099's and everything is on the books and official. If he's been getting 1099's from YouTube for years and not filing tax returns, he's about to get into some serious trouble.

I bet you that he files his taxes on his YouTube income (but deducts everything under the sun including all his meals, part of his apartment, maybe his poker losses, and anything he can imagine) and for this reason he got a stimulus check.

I'm curious if he filled for the 1099'ers unemployment program and if he is eligible since he's still making YouTube money and merch money which might disqualify him from collecting. I wouldn't be surprised if he is trying to play both sides of it though, claiming the gig workers unemployment program and not reporting his current YouTube money coming in. Again, it might catch up to him although there seems to be widespread fraud in that program so who knows if they'll ever get to finding him.

I thought he was comfortable financially the last few years after getting a family inheritance. I wonder if something happened with that or if he's just complaining to get more merch sales and donations to his cashapp/paypal while everything is actually the same as it was pre-covid. He does seem like a pretty big complainer.

IF he filed taxes and then applied for PUA, his weekly benefit amount would be based on how much he made for the year(2019), actually the highest quarter divided by 26 to get weekly amount up to $469 max, he would likely be below that.

Whatever the max weekly is, as long as he made less than that amount each week when he claims then he still gets some money plus all of the bonus, either $300 or $600. 75% of money claimed each weeks goes away. So weekly benefit of $300 and made $200 on claim would equal $150 payment for week plus any bonus.

If claim is over weekly max then you get nothing.

You arent eligible for PPP loans if your business is gambling. It is one of the questions on the application. However, he could have gotten it with his hat business.

So he believes he shouldnt get any return or benefit on his tax dollars he's paid? That is about the dumbest thing ever. On what principle would someone not want a safety net in a situation that was no fault of their own ie a pandemic? It boggles the mind.