So Trooper has gone from trying to play poker for a living to freeroll grinder. My how the mighty have fallen.

PokerKraut, no question. He actually seems to understand somewhat how to play and could feasibly do well if he gets a little bit of luck. BK would either nit it up and be blinded down, or never make it to purchase the ticket and dump 10k on hockey bets the day before.

Good question. Love the driving analogy lol, terrible mindset for people to have. Sad that alot of them will never realize what mindset they have.

Hahaha, Out of Time i like you. I've gotten better at playing longer. I've never had a problem with long tournaments, only cash games (i'm newer to cash games). No harm no foul though, I'd probably take Trooper over me too.


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On another note, hope everyone had a wonderful mother's day. I get back to Vegas Tuesday night. Very excited to be back and get on that grind. GL all

I'm gonna hold you to it!

For the record Pman, im taking you all day.

Would rather lose with you than win with the trooper.

Im going to vegas this week, if you grind 15 hours from now til friday ill buy you a free dennys meal

Yes I will pitch in if you help introduce him to a better burger than mcdonalds

fyp

Bellagio 5/T has got to be the smallest 5/T in the US. There are 2/5 games that play bigger. Given inflation, might as well consider it a low stakes game in 2021.

This was my experience playing with him. We hung out a bit before and he seemed to be in a normal mood. However, as soon as a middle aged VIP sat down at the table and beat him in a pot he went into full war mode.

It's a very curious mindset to play with.

Pretty sure Trooper was just using it as an insult along the lines of calling them GTO bots. I don't think he actually diagnosed anyone with a disorder. He was callous in what he said, not politically correct, and frankly ignorant.

However, his point is valid. Those players are terrible for the game, both the 5/T game and poker in general. Nobody wants to play with those guys. It's not fun whatsoever, and other entertainment options look far more entertaining when the prospect of playing poker includes them. There are far better more profitable players that anyone would rather play poker with than these boring robotic players.

He seemed rather nice in my limited interactions. In a way he had some innocent child-like qualities. If you knew his voice, you could probably better understand my post but first time I came up to him I said "Hi TBC" and he immediately inquired "Are you Dream Crusher?" We had a brief conversation that day and then I ran into him again the next day and first thing he said to me is "You're the guy claiming to be Dream Crusher right?"


It's not clear who the more skilled poker player is but even if it was well established that pman is far and away the better player the smart money would still have to bet on Trooper simply because the Main Event is a marathon with many long days back to back. There have been worse players to win the main than Trooper, so that's a bit of good news for anyone interested in investing in Trooper.

Good for Lady Trooper. I wonder if she watches his videos or if she just checks this thread to see how much money he lost. Can you imagine what Trooper must be like coming home after a losing session? I hope he can turn off the ranting once he steps through the door or else that relationship won't last long.

Seems like they are on a tighter budget these days since they downsized the apartment so it's best that Trooper doesn't lose more than a month's rent in a night so props to Lady Trooper for setting a stop loss for Trooper and not letting him take more than $1100 each night and making him leave his ATM card at home.

1. PokerKraut - best player out of all these guys, probably made the most amount of money from poker from this group while still maintaining a job, a marriage, and friends and an actual life

2. Pman - he's new to the scene but he seems to do okay in the online tournaments but still a small sample size; stamina definitely a huge risk as he might be chip leader going into day 2 but would not show up for multiple days and would get blinded out right before the money

3. Trooper - best case scenario he doesn't eat crap before the game, plays his best for a few hours but then someone makes a random comment and sets him off and he tilts off his whole stack on 97s because of some random physical tell that he noticed when his opponent adjusted his facemask ever so slightly after betting his chips; also Trooper seems to have aged a lot since his last WSOP and his back and crankiness might cause him to tilt a few hours in

4. BK - agreed, that $10K buy in never makes it to the WSOP cage as it gets stolen by some mysterious Western Union transactions the night before and definitely not due to sports book losses on a -250 team followed by some in game martingaling

You talking about the In N Out by the LINQ or the Shake Shack down by NY/NY? Or is it the world's best burger at the Westgate that Trooper raves about?

Hey i appreciate it. Til Friday? I get back into town late Tuesday night...will have to play 15 hours on wed/thurs to get some good dennys before you leave. i'll try to make it happen. either way, we should definitely meet up!

I'm down for denny's!!!

I would never not show up for a day 2 / 3 / etc...I might not be able to play my A game for that long though. Stamina is something i'm training. Playing in a 10k though, especially the main event? I think i'd do fine with a few diet cokes here and there. I played the WSOP in 2019 (didnt make any day 2s, i sucked) and never had a fatigue issue. Had many 10+ hour days.

15 hours live or can some be online cash games? Can stream it.

Trooper is pushing these lollipops made by his girlfriend really hard, every vlog in the recent period of time.

Aren't main event days like 12 or 13 hours sometimes? Yet you're worried about playing 15 hours between now and Friday in live cash against complete mouth breathers that are just giving money away?

I watch his videos from time to time, hes a very likeable guy and the videos are quite entertaining.

However, almost all the hands in the videos are so abc or just spots where he has absolute monsters. I watched one of his videos and it was like 8 3b spots in a row where he flopped top pair or better everytime.

Brads videos are often this way, just absolute monster hands and a bit boring.

I get into town friday, and leave the next thursday, 15 hours of poker by next wednesday is the target now, online is fine, live is fine, combined 15 hours, has to be cashgames. Can be a nicer place than dennys if you want. El Dorado works too, that would be my choice, as has been said, ol' momma vlogs will be paying, so we can step it up a bit on her dime.

Hell, I'd do 100 hours of poker by next Wednesday for El Dorado.

Pman is likely higher EV in the main but Trooper would be lower variance

Most of the EV in playing tournaments comes from top place finishes. In order for Pman to hit a big score he'd have to play like 10 long days, including 8 consecutively. There's no way in hell he's higher EV than Trooper.

Honest question that I've always wondered - why would you play the 5/T at Bellagio vs the 2/5 at Wynn that has the same cap? It seems like the 5/T is mostly the same regs/vloggers playing the game all the time.

Are they basically only playing when they get a call that there are a couple tourists in the game?

Kind of hard to avoid this if you want to vlog and be a winning player at the same time.

Uncapped 2/5 at PHo has always been a slept on game. Does that still run?

before i knew about planet hollywood i used to think phil helmuth hosted some sick home games because most of the time you'd see "was playing the 5/T at PH"

wasn't until reading some vegas tr where they said ph a bunch of times and then showed the chips and it said planet hollywood and i was like "omfg"

so perhaps i should stop critiquing the vloggers here so much and just lurk here from now on

excited for pman's meal meetups

Why would troopah decide to take a swing at higher stakes on a day he admits on his vlog is the worst day to play poker in Vegas? Can someone explain that to me? The guy doesn't drink why wouldn't you wait until Friday or Saturday night and go sit down at 10/11pm and try to isolate the drunks who might be playing. His roll was around 10k so he risks 20% of it at the worst possible time without thinking anything thru lol. I have nothing against taking a shot but at least give yourself the best chance to succeed when you do it.