I like trooper, but can relate to other's frustration after hearing that hand. IMO he played every street wrong, then gives a 5 min results oriented speech about how he goaded a rec player into folding. I'm sure he was high on the moment / result, but he played the hand terribly. That type of thinking deludes players into thinking they are winners. SMH.

Give Trooper the credit he’s due. He played the river correctly. Lol.

Trooper's mastery of poker table psychology is 2nd to none.

The full story begins at the 7:47 minute mark.

The shorter version begins at the 14:00 minute mark.

I recommend the shorter version.

https://youtu.be/xXjbUkpn6hQ?t=836

Seriously. On the river in that QJ hand where the guy took him to value town, Rampage says "all 3 options are on the table."

Really, folding was far and a way the best option. And just calling was far and away the worst option.

No, the worst option was walking to Encore from his AirBnB because Uber's are "super expensive."

So says the guy who loses $1,000s a session, including $5,515 on this day alone.

I diiiiied at this.

Lol every fish starts saying this after they watch their first Doug Polker hands video to justify every decision they want to make.

I've played casually for about 6 or 7 years and at this point, after a lot of learning both the expensive way at the table the first few years and the cheaper way during tons of hours of study away from the table the last 3 years, I'm finally consistently crushing 1-3.

I dabbled in 2-5 during years 2 to 4 before realizing I was in over my head and the fear over losing the amount of money I had on the table was handcuffing myself, so I dropped back down and was determined to stay at 1-3 and accept that this was where I needed to be even if I really wanted to play with "the big boys" at my local room to.

I cant see how anyone can go in under 2 years from brand new to poker to playing 5-10 and winning consistently. His ultra aggro style apparently can yield some big wins, but I think he is just playing way over his ability.

I like the guy, I wish him well, but it's hard to not feel bad for him at times.

He needs to play 1-3 and fine tune his aggression for a year or two minimum before moving up to 2-5. He is going to go busto eventually even with his other revenue streams.

Like the guy, just think his ambition is getting the best of him, which, if anything, is a "good" fault to have in some ways.

TBC is at resorts world, think he'll play me HU?

You should stake him at BJ instead...

I think this is the beginnings of a beautiful friendship.

https://youtu.be/JMOBxjIvLBE

Lol i've met tony before i knew who he was. He's not a bad guy. I have nothing bad to say about him. His tweets however...they are very concerning.

I also like how a random sketched out car was slowly behind him in a run down parking lot while he was likely carrying thousands, lol.

I'm surprised this video hasn't blown up, with him playing at a table with Spraggy and Boski.

300,000 views, a lot. 25x Trooper's 12,000 with spraggy

Don't ask, don't tell.

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TBC is a good guy? Well it’s good that PMan also has faith in humanity and not just his religion because Bigcharles has pulled a lot of crap over the years with racist comments to blackjack dealers and even possible theft when he described how Talking Stick overpaid him after blackjack free play and then they probably banned him.

But yeah, the Rampage stuff is interesting and I even wonder if there’s some crazy meta attempt here by Rampage to be the anti-vlogger and just punt. This is probably an unlikely but it would be something if true.

For me, hands down the best video of all-time from Rampage is where he went to dinner with his girlfriend's family on top of Stratosphere and played poker on his phone the entire time.

Then went home and played some more while "hanging" out with the family.

That right there is some next level degen'ness.

Rampage doesnt punt on his vlogs on purpose.

I watched like 5-7 of his WSOP life streams, probably like 15-20 hours of watching him in the last 2 weeks. He is super aggressive and does well and plays some solid ABC poker then booom like everytime... He punts in them and you can see it and everyone is trying to stop him....

He just gets in a headspace where he thinks he HAS to make a decision, makes the pre-determined decision, does not think through options, and just goes like a zombie. All of us who watched his streams tell him to stop it and we see it live.... He just kind of loses it.... Its kind of like an operating system shutdown, like a spinning wheel on a macbook or hour class on a windows where 2-3 hands he will just meltdown, when all he has to do is fold.

Funny thing a lot of his punts would be better as maybe a flop all in or flop reraise, but he gets into check call mode and gets taken to value town, then the next QJ he goes with it if its 3rd pair, he is going with it....

He also thinks back to recent sample size to determine what works.... like what he said in his poker out loud "experiment." If something works 3 times in a row, he think its a good move. He has no concept of varied plays or a big sample size, he's kind of like a roulette player who thinks 3 blacks in a row make a red likely.... he thinks back over very short sample size examples to make a decision. You can hear him saying it out loud and making his same statements of confusion and talking through the recent few hands.

Rough idea on what RDPs house cost? Fairly sizable house

Or doing something wrong?

I'll give him credit for surviving in Vegas after coming here with only a few thousand to his name, which is tough to do (although his only vice is low limit nitty poker which is probably one of the cheapest life leaks you can have in this town), but I think all of the fascination with his personal life revolves around the fact that he is such a weird and crazy character.

He drives to the strip daily to film a vlog that 10K people watch a day. He does this every single day of his life it seems like to make what, $30-$50? Yeah he sells hats, coffee, and now lollipops for his "girlfriend" but he seems to make horrible life decisions and people (or at least me) are curious why he does the stuff that he does because it seems so illogical.

He can he working as a poker dealer 5 days a week (he's a good poker dealer!) and be making more than running between downtown and the strip everyday dropping off 2 hats and 3 boxes of lollipops. Plus he would have some retirement saved up and some health insurance which are both VERY IMPORTANT at his age.

He claims he's a great poker player but is stuck at 1/3 for life and is breakeven over the past 4 years. He could promote his patreon more to his fans instead of selling stale coffee that sits in his closet or garage for weeks to months at a time and hats. Does he still even sell t-shirts and hoodies and the other stuff he used to?

And why does he run all over town everyday to drop off a single hat or a box of lollipops that melts in his backpack during the day? Trooper is the 50 year old version of those kids selling candy on the streets to "pay for basketball camp". Why not just have people come to his weekly pop up shop at the Westgate? Or just be a regular at a certain room on busy days like Fri, Sat, and Sun when people come to town so they come to him and save him time. Or even just put up on Twitter where he'll be playing for the day so people can come to him like a food truck.

He could make WSOP packages and pretty much freeroll tournaments but instead he slumps around the 1/3 games in town.

He claims to love his life, be a huge success in poker, vlogging, and business, and to be perfectly sane but he's angry/irritated most of the time, he hasn't grown professionally in any facet for years (maybe even regressed in some areas like vlogging and poker), and he yells at cars randomly, films and insults the homeless and mentally ill, wishes random people around him would die, calls everyone on the strip idiots, builds up big imaginary feuds with PokerKraut based on stuff that never really happened outside of his own head, and complains about the most petty things like it's the end of the world (no, the cocktail waitress or Starbucks barista isn't out to specifically ruin your life and steal your $1!). And the rants!

I think people are so curious about him because he is a big loser who broadcasts his life on a daily vlog. If one of the homeless guys who yells at random objects on the strip started vlogging somehow, he would have the exact same appeal as Trooper does. People would want to know how he's eating, where he's living, what he does other than yell at walls and trash cans, how he got to where he is in life, and would want to send him money to help him transform to a better life.

I think that's why so many people buy Trooper's junk. They want to throw him $20 because they see him struggling and want to help him out. He doesn't seem like an evil person or anything, just someone who is struggling in life and needs help.

it's big(ger) and in a suburb of NY so I'm sure it cost a decent penny.. but it also appeared to be dated and looked tired.. so if I had to guess.. I'd say it was on the cheaper side relatively speaking.

I wish TBC had a vlog.

Is it in northern jersey or NY?

I'd guess at least $600k (and maybe quite a bit more although it is really dated), but taxes could be $2k a month.