Bingo. Your ranges are a little narrow - K2 is +EV against a random hand even before you factor in the blinds for example. However adding those additional hands increases your variance a lot for only a pittance in profit, so I would understand a typically rolled player sticking to the ranges you suggest.

It's interesting that this fairly basic concept of position in NL play is clearly not widely understood 15+ years into the era of all-NL all the time.

Come on guys, poker vlogs and winning poker strategy are completely unrelated to each other.

Let's stick to poker vlogs and less on poker strategy. There are other forums for that garbage!

I am guessing that it brings comfort for a lot of people to see Trooper walking around Vegas strip because they can't be there to do it.

He also carries with him this degen swag that no other vloggers can have. It does indeed make him unique.

Not one of your best attempts at trolling. As others have said, it is better to sit on his right.

Did Trooper actually say this guy was a maniac though? I remember a much older vlog of his when he went into why you sit to the right of a maniac. For him to say he wants to sit to the left of this player leads me to believe this player wasn’t a maniac. I thought he just said this player was reckless, but that’s not the same as being as maniac.

Pman sorry about your insomnia. Serious question - why not play poker late night if you can’t sleep anyway?

There is this 80 or so year old guy that lives near me and he always has long pants and the same jacket on when outside year round whether its 40 degrees or 115 degrees.

I mean seeing my dad in his older years, I get it, various medications, etc. make the blood thin. But even my dad would not wear a jacket outside in Florida when it was 90 degrees. lol

Probably because it's unnatural to sleep during the day and not sleeping one night doesn't mean it's easier to sleep the next night for someone with sleep problem.

And for someone with sleep problem, playing late night will probably make that problem worse.

As someone who's had chronic insomnia his whole life:
It's hard to do anything, especially anything stressful, when you're not rested.
People who never suffered from insomnia think you can just be finding a cure for cancer with all your extra time awake.

I'd love to hear Pman's thoughts on this.

become a roofer or carpet installer
insomnia will magically disappear

True, I am not positive of the correct ranges, but would assume anything Q7+ would be profitable. Rake getting taken out may change that to Q8 or Q9+, not sure, but that is basically just being break even and flipping coins. Obviously if you are on the direct right and get to fair catch all the punts you may want to narrow it down a little bit just to reduce variance and what not.

cut out caffeine
cut out sugar
exercise (high intensity)

from the fact that pman says mcdonalds is his favorite restaurant i don't think he does any of these things.

Drink coffee, eat pizza, burgers, and take long brisk walks all over the Las Vegas Strip....vlog 34 days in a row averaging 6 hour sessions all those days...shoot and edit a vlog every day...yet still beat very high rake.

The hardest working man in Vegas!

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Trooper is no doubt in a winning streak but it is a very worrisome winning streak in that the average win is relatively very tiny. It is actually very rational to assume that a losing session or two could easily wipe out 15 of those winning sessions on very short order.

Pompeii was founded around the 7th or 6th century B.C. But it got wiped out (70 something A.D.) in a matter of days. 600 some years of building and development (remember, the United States of America is only 250 years old) only to get destroyed in the same time it takes to binge watch the first 3 seasons of Breaking Bad.

Trooper is the new Pompeii.

Great question, which I go in depth on in my next vlog (will link when i post it)

+1

Ugh, sorry you have it too. I actually talk about it for 4mins in my upcoming vlog (should be dropping this weekend). I'll post it when it's up. Alot easier to speak instead of type it all out.

+1, there isn't just a "cure" for insomnia. I have to deal with what my body gives me. I can put myself in the best situation to have a healthy sleep schedule, but I can never guarantee it.

I have little to no caffeine a day. Low sugar. I need to get back to the gym. Thanks!

Trooper seems like the type that would cash out just to log a winning session.

Interesting that you take the time to reference Pompeii but can't take the 30 seconds to get the actual dates.

450 BC or so to 79 AD.

Wow Reggie Steer has Rookie of the Month locked up for June and its in only been a few days.

"This guy came up to me, right here where no one would be walking" Trooper said, right as 2 more people walked directly by next to him.

This. It's a recipe for disaster too. Only small wins and an inevitable big loss will wipe out everything.

Yokosawa announces that his amusement casino will officially open on June 11. They want to have a group of sponsored players called "Team POKER ROOM Pro." The budget for their team is about $90k. Then they play a (probably scripted) game to see if Yokosawa himself is suitable for the team. If Yokosawa wins the game, he gets the $90k (for the team I think). If he loses, he has to work for free for 1 year to mentor the team.

Most of the vlog is them playing the game, which I didn't bother to watch. Yokosawa ends up losing, so maybe it wasn't scripted, and he has to mentor the team for 1 year for free. He also needs to earn a spot on the team like everyone else. I'm not sure what happens to the $90k though.

Also where he himself was walking.

I would have to fight the biggest urge of running him over if I ever encountered him in the middle of a road on his dumb board.

So Trooper plays something like 35 hours a week. Or something like that, could be more, could be less. Let's just say it's 35. This number could not be too far from the truth, and could even be higher. So at 35 hours per week, 4 weeks per month, and 5 full months into the year, Trooper has played 700 hours so far this year -- again, give or take. At his profit of the $4417, divided by 700 hours total, Trooper has made $6.13 per hour on the year. The know-it-alls and haters ITT will say this means Trooper sucks, but I actually think that this number isn't that bad. There's always room for improvement, but like it or not, Trooper is making it work.

You're in Vegas with countless drunk tourists and tons of money being wasted and he acts suprised that it attracts desperate people to wander those same streets?