Come on Pman. I know you're a humble guy and don't want to over promise when you don't have the stats to back it up, but you are literally discouraging people from backing you.

You are allowed to say why you think you would do well. You don't need to guarantee results but don't tell people that even you don't think you have a chance.

If I wanted to gamble on you with a few hundred just for fun, I definitely am reconsidering after that post. I know you've had a few bad cash sessions but you have to change your mentality or else you're doomed before you even start.

In Trooper's last vlog, Candy for Dinner, he starts off by saying how it is just as dangerous to ride a bike on Las Vegas Blvd without any sort of bike lane as it is to ride the boosted board. While it's probably just as dangerous, I don't think anyone is saying that the guy on the bike is the model of safety. Also, the guy on the bike sticks to the very right of the right hand lane and doesn't switch lanes or make left turns. While he isn't safe for sure, he's probably to a small degree safer than Trooper on his board.

Then later in the video, he shows 2 people crossing Las Vegas Blvd in the middle of the block and not at a crosswalk and says they have a death wish. Like that act is more dangerous than skateboarding amongst the same cars for several blocks and then through parking garages and all the little back alleys around the strip.

Saying that he knows what he is doing and accepting the risks of his activities is one thing but then in the same breath hatefully criticizing others publicly for doing the same thing (maybe even something slightly safer in comparison) tells you everything about the Trooper, his mindset, and his way of life.

If he doesn't criticize others with such hate for doing the exact things he does himself, maybe people wouldn't laugh at him for being such a loser.

Edit: And I just noticed. He is talking about these people crossing the street having a death wish while he walks on the WRONG SIDE of the safety guards on the sidewalk as cars fly by him while he babbles into the camera while rotting his teeth with his 3rd lollipop of the night. Those guards were put up specifically so pedestrians would be safe against cars and he's going out of his way to walk on the wrong side of them teetering on the edge of the sidewalk. SMH. Moron.

I can't believe he rides that crapboard on the sidewalks. It just takes one person who thinks he coming too fast to close and he will be airborne. I don't walk the strip often but that is BS.

About two years ago, Trooper was able to raise around 7k of the 10k he needed to play in the WSOP Main Event. I believe he sold at 1.1 or more markup and sold out within minutes.

During the upcoming Online WSOP, there will be 14 events (out of a total of 33) with buy ins of $500 or less. What would be the over/under in terms of the number of the 14 events that Trooper would be able to get into if he sold 100% of himself in all of these events at 1.1 markup? Assuming he chooses to, of course.

I'd guess most if not all (unless they overlap I didn't look at all). I took a quick look and he gets a good 10K views per video on average. So sure while there's a decent non-fan base on here who hate him, the reality is he has a pretty solid fan base who aren't worried about the specifics of his poker abilities and he is their internet celebrity.

Think of Joe Nobody from Idaho who wishes he could be living in Vegas playing poker, he knows if he puts up $100 toward Trooper WSOP he'll get a little sweat and get to hear about how the tournament went in a vlog. I suspect there's enough Joe Nobody's out there to make it happen.

No offence meant to anyone whose name is Joe Nobody.

A few days ago I posted the tags Trooper uses on the video he had put out. Out of curiosity I checked todays. Not planning on doing this ongoing, just curious if he mixes it up or what.

Todays tags:
las vegas, las vegas strip, daily vlog, vlog, fried rice, pork belly fried rice, food truck, poker

Still a lot of room for improvement that could reel in some more views. And could ditch most of the ones he does use.

Wow!!! It looks like I have just discovered a major root cause of Trooper's very low SEO IQ:

Trooper has a totall lack of knowledge of the term "long tail keywords". It seems like Trooper wants to get seen by the largest number of people by using very short tail keywords..... but by doing so, he would be competing literally with Fortune 500 companies and news organizations like CNN, MSNBC, FOXNews, ABC, CBS, USAToday, and others that would be able to rank in these very short term keywords like "Las Vegas", "las vegas strip", "daily vlog", etc.

Hey Trooper:

If you are reading this, google the term "long tail keywords". It will change your life. Instead of "daily vlog" which would be competing with the likes of Casey Neistat and Jake Paul use something long tail like "daily low limit holdem vlog from planet hollywood las vegas".

Long tail is key to becoming findable. Another thing, get Market Samurai Mr. Trooper. It will tell you which Las Vegas poker related vlogging oriented keywords are getting searched on google and therefore Youtube.

Holy crap! Trooper's traffic problems are so simple to solve.

Trooper won't spend money on Market Samurai, he doesn't need help from anyone or anything. He won't be studying up on long tail keywords either, he doesn't even study poker.

Rampage - playing 2/5 probably going to be tame.
4 bets with 97s.

Ok buddy.

Believe it. As I mentioned before my wife runs a YouTube channel (1.2M subscribers) and with Trooper's views that's about what he makes.

YouTube is Trooper's marketing, for selling merch and hosting Trooper Thursdays.

You seem to think that despite what the site says, you trust "your gut" in something you have absolutely zero knowledge in.

Latest Trooper Results:

He's gonna hit 5k by July!

If he does, he needs to stop with the daily vlogging, play less and lock up the win for the year.

Vloggers make thousands through the advertisements and from sponsors.
I think Trooper is doing just fine and a lot smarter than what people give him credit for.

I don't wish you to fail. Quite the contrary actually. It's just that I've seen no evidence you are likely to succeed. The amount of poker you play is the most ridiculous I've ever heard of. I've never heard of someone that took a shot and put in so little volume.

Like I said, Ibelieveyouoweme$80k is in way worse condition healthwise and he would still put in way more hours than you. I know players that put in a 20 to 30 hour sessions every single week. Hell, I knew a 75+ year old player that would grind straight through the entire weekend every weekend.

If you are only able to put in short poker sessions here and there and also have to take lots of days off because you are too tired or want to do stuff with friends, I'm just not understanding how other jobs will be any different.

This joker obviously doesn't even watch Pman's vlogs.

There's no way. If I'm understanding him correctly in today's vlog, he turned his camera on 31 times just walking back to his car. That seems excessive for sure but he said when he's at that point towards the end of editing the vlog he still generally has 10 to 15 clips he has to go through and listen to himself talk. He probably does a hell of a lot more ranting than we ever see on the vlog.

15 to 20 minutes is just the time it takes just to listen to the actual final product.

pman streaming live online poker.

https://www.twitch.tv/pmanprays

I can think of a few reasons.

1. No temptation to hit and run and no fear of losing money when you work those extra hours. You’re never going to be up big after 3 hours at a job like that. You’re forced to grind out the hours if you want to make anything.

2. You have a boss to answer to. Being your own boss makes a lot of poker players lazier.

3. The more hours you work, the more you make and you will notice this every time you get a paycheck. In poker one can easily play more hours and get destroyed by negative variance. A lot of players also suck and will do better with fewer hours because they can’t beat the game. Or they beat the game for such a small amount that the variance and the low winrate makes it a miserable existence.


Does this mean he can grind out a low paying job? Not necessarily. But I suspect that it’s easier to go 8-10 hours in a job for a lot of people than it is to play 8–10 hour sessions as a job.

Well then, I appreciate your support very much. I don't compare myself to others, I don't care what other people are doing or how much they are playing. I can only improve myself. I'm not comparing my chapter 3 to someone else's chapter 20.
Thanks for stopping by! I appreciate you and everyone else who tuned in. Have a great night.

Sure but once they click and see how terribad the vlog is they'll never return.

I guess he could maybe get another 25 regular viewers out of it.

Not him - there are many very reputable YouTube/Social Media Revenue estimators for individual channels which use data on subscribes, views, ad usage, and click per ad rev etc - People just do not want to believe it.

He seriously makes 200-400 dollars a month MAX from his dopey little channel.

By Comparison, Brad Owen might make 1800 in a down or average month, or 3.5K-4K in a great month - all in all many sources having him doing about 30-40K per year for his channel.

Brad Owen makes $1800 a month? LoL

Rampage says he makes 4 bucks per 1000 views...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jft-...annel=EthanYau

Trooper makes 40 per video...and takes 1 hour to edit each one. $40 per hour.

Owen makes 1600 per video...and takes 12 hours to edit each one. $130 per hour.

Trooper has a lot of potential to increase his hourly with no extra work if he learns SEO (keyword selection for tags, descriptions and titles; long tail key wording) and thumbnail and title click baiting. He could easily double his earn if he knew these things simply doing a little differently what he's already doing. No extra effort or time. Maybe just 5 minutes more time for basic research and keyword copycatting of the higher traffic poker vloggers.

Plus, Trooper could possibly make 2 videos per day from the same footage. Perhaps an uncut video of just walking footage can be added with a separate camera. Lots of driving and walking videos on youtube made by people that don't even comment or show their faces. For all cities including Los Angeles, Manila, Tuscany, Santorini, etc. Trooper can actually create two additional non-poker channels: walking daily in Vegas channel and driving daily in Vegas channel. Just splat the uncut footage on to youtube everyday.

Reggie you really should reach out to Trooper. He deserves to be the highest compensated poker vlogger out there.