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brad seems completely f***ed if he keeps getting strikes

Been day trading stocks per instagram.

Sure he can get people who hate money to back him. But he would NEVER take a staking deal or coaching. Because that would mean he'd have to listen to (or report to) someone not named Tim Watts. Clearly not gonna happen. He'd rather be broke.

So if Trooper had worked on his game so he could move up and play bigger games, improved his vlogging, included hand histories with graphics, made weekly vlogs instead of daily vlogs then he could owned this genre. That just seems like a lot of ifs.

Pretty much what you are arguing is that if Trooper wasn't Trooper then he would own this genre. Taking that stance i could argue that any one of us could have owned the genre. Or I could argue that Trooper could have made different choices and become a lawyer or accountant.

Trooper invented the genre but the genre has evolved into something that Trooper isn't really interested in. I'm pretty sure Trooper was the first one to use hole card graphics in a vlog. He used them and then he quickly stopped using them. That's not the vlog he is interested in creating.

Also, I think you are being extremely optimistic if you think Trooper would own this genre. I think Trooper recognized something that you still don't recognize which is that a large portion of his fan-base aren't even poker players or are at best very casual poker players. Outside of the members of this thread, most of the people that watch his vlogs are blue collar casual low stakes players, gamblers, and fans of Vegas. If Trooper's vlog were to ever blow up it would most likely be due to an increase in fans outside the poker world.

In honor of the 40th anniversary of My Dinner With Andre

Trooper has been staked before.

His main hesitancy in doing things like this is that he feels like it's money he hasn't earned. Early on fans wanted him to create a Patreon and he wasn't willing to do it because he felt it was like stealing from his fans (or like he's a welfare case). He later finally came around to it (maybe after YouTube changed it's pay structure?) and I believe still has one but I never hear him promoting it. He doesn't even include a link to his patreon in his videos. He has tons of other links though. I sure hope he gets paid something for those Amazon links.

Anyways, I'm pretty sure most people that back players in poker tournaments hate money. If his fans want to back him he should put a package together. It's not a scam whatsoever, even if he is -EV in tournaments. In fact, he's about as forthcoming about his results as any poker player in the world so anyone that has a distorted understanding of how good Trooper is only has themselves to blame.

I think part of Rampage’s appeal is that he thinks and plays like majority of average players.

Most of these players are also delusional losing players that actually think they beat the game.

So when they watch Rampage's analysis, they're thinking, OMG, that's exactly what I think about in these spots! And they basically project themselves in Rampage's shoes as if they're playing.

It's actually pretty incredible and it may not be in Rampage's best interest to actually get better, lol.

It's a lot more expensive to play 5-5-10-20-40 or whatever the heck it was like that than he will ever make from the footage on Youtube. If he's going that route, he needs to play smaller both to divide the losses and to weaken the competition.

Good post, agree Advantage Player and Boski most likely to make a run in a big MTT.

No his employer allowed him to work remotely long term from Vegas. Good for him.

Yeah I ask casuals at the table if they seen any Neeme vlogs and they don't even know who he is, but I mention Brad Owen and their eyes light up.

A slight bit of a stretch on the comparison but nice.

Trooper roasting a guy for playing a hand badly and blaming bad luck while simultaneously checking his option with KQ in the big blind after 3-4 limpers in the same hand.

You can't make this stuff up!

Agree. I like watching rampage because we play the same style. Get bored after awhile so raise or 3-bet some random suited hand, then try to randomly bluff our way out of trouble and sometimes it works. He just needs to get shitfaced drunk at every session.

very funny especially when he himself bemoans his luck constantly and has said many times that HE is the unluckiest player in the world. Cognitive dissonance. And obviously he is bad at poker but what do you expect, this is a known fact at this point. You dont play 1-2 for years and years by accident.


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I think Trooper's points were fair.

The player limped 43o from UTG. I think most people would agree that should probably be a fold.

Then the player called with bottom pair 2nd worst kicker on a K73ss board when the best player at the table led out strong in a multiway pot. That also seems like a spot he could fold.

Then the player called with bottom pair 2nd worst kicker on a turn Queen, which technically improved his hand from K7433 to KQ733, but it also improved his opponent's hand (regardless of his opponent's holdings).

I guess it's possible that dude had some backdoor spade draw equity so maybe you are right and Trooper is wrong.

I am anticipating a cop pulling trooper over on his boosted board while in traffic, him losing his ****, and getting arrested. Probably can't vlog while in jail

Don't confuse "Tough Trooper when talking to the camera" with "Actual Trooper when facing a real person"

This is part of the deal if you're Trooper.
I'm playing the exact same way against him, just hoping to suck out and bad beat him.
I'm so much happier wrecking him in a hand like this than I'm sad donating money to him making dumb plays like this.
It's +EV for him but he's going to get stung every now and then.

My favorite vlog was when trooper got followed from the strip and into a casino and he went up to security to protect him instead of him "taking it to the streets" or whatever he pretends he would ever do.

I also think when he picked up his camera the other day and said he would drop him if they spit on him, the person wasn't even near him anymore and didn't hear a word he said and trooper knew that.

Rampage has an everyman, relatable quality yet at the same time also is enough of an action player for people to get a sense that anything can happen when they tune in. Folks can see themselves in him, but without having to actually endure the swings. Add to that a consistent three vlogs a week of pure poker content and there's his recipe for success.

The guy I can't make up my mind about is Lex. He uploads pretty frequently, albeit with pretty low quality/effort. But he plays high stakes and offers some non-nominal insight, so I'll probably continue watching his stuff. One frustrating thing is he plays at the same spot most if not all the time, so often he'll talk about having played with a certain person before, perhaps not realizing that's not very useful for a viewer. If he played a different places more often, like Mariano, I think it would improve his product.

This can be a correct play at certain low limit tables where players may limp AK and AQ. Depending on the exact villains and how you size your raise, there's a real risk of folding out the Kx and Qx hands you dominate and would love to play a pot with, and keeping in those limped premium hands that you do not want to play against.

A raise may occasionally unintentionally work as a bluff by folding out an Ax though.

Your hand is too close to the typical 1/2 villain's call/fold like to make a bet very profitable and it may not be profitable at all.

Players that limp call AK/AQ are the easiest types to play against. You c bet small and if they call, you are done with the hand even if you flop top pair. If you can beat a top pair hand, you bet turn and river huge for value cause those player types can't fold.

Players that limp fold Kx/Qx pre are great cause that means I will iso wider and just pick up their limps.

Both styles can be exploited heavily so I don't see how either player types are bad to have in the game or preclude squeezing KQ off pre out of the big blind.

I think Rampage wins because he is so aggressive at low limits and that works. Probably the people that watch him are too scared to 3bet with every suited connector.

Then when Rampage plays higher limits, on streams with good players, etc, etc he gets destroyed.

Personally I do not like listening to Rampage talk about blockers or attempts at high level reasoning when the truth is he is just going to make the call or bet no matter what lol.

Came here to say exactly this. I like Trooper more and more the older I get but i spit out my drink when he said that.