They should take a course in psychological poker warfare from the Trooper.

Yes, poker grinders think way too highly of themselves.

I try to defend Trooper as much as possible, but unfortunately when it comes to poker there is often no defense. I'm ok with table talk and getting in players heads, but Trooper's delivery is a bit off. Trooper has real emotions behinds his words. He really wants to vanquish his opponents at the table. They are not his friends, and I think that is quite apparent when playing with him. Being friendly with other players is clearly a better approach to take.

I thought Trooper was selling t-shirts (not sure if it was on the Blind Squirrel website). I think it was last summer.

PokerKrauts videos are a 1000 times better than Troopers. Its a crime he only has 3k subs....

I don't understand why Kraut doesn't have more subs. I recall the first video on his page being in german and so I avoided his channel for a long time thinking it was all in German, but right now there are only 2 vloggers whose videos I never miss: Trooper and PokerKraut. (I'm behind a bit on Boski's but do plan to get caught back up with his at some point too).

That JJ hand shows why I think Trooper has the most interesting/entertaining hand histories. Other guys will talk about the line villain took, his range, his tendencies, etc. With Trooper you get attempted psychological warfare and talk about live tells. There was no talk about ranges at all. Trooper picked up a tell or two, put his opponent on a bluff and made the "sick" call.

Is it just me or is there something off about Trooper making a separate video about that 1 hand? How many times has he called off with middle pair on a KKxQx board on the river to a large bet and been dead wrong when his opponent rolled over a Q or K and not included it in the vlog?

I find it funny how he puts so much emphasis on this one hand when his "read" was purely some tell that the guy had. Nothing about the line taken or ranges as mentioned above. I really believe that he makes this call very often and many times finds himself getting stacked and just writes it off as running bad.

Mrs Krauts line delivery was excellent as well! Ty gor the vids PK!!

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I don't know whether Steve007 is Trooper's relative, best friend, groupie, hype man, or wife. He is definitely in love with the Troop.

I thought some people might read my post and think I was making fun of him. I wasn't, but interesting/entertaining isn't always a compliment.

I actually don't think it's that easy of a call at 1-2 and it's easy for people to be results oriented (including Trooper). But I suspect even without any tells, Trooper makes the call anyway because he calls a lot of big bets on the river and as a result would catch more people bluffing than most other people. IMO too much calling in that spot is a leak and this result will reinforce the idea he has that they bluff all the time.

Edit: Also saying he doesn't talk about ranges, lines, etc. isn't exactly a compliment either.

Agreed. He also never mentions the pot odds in these spots.

I was also initially confused by Kraut's video in German but since have come back and found him to be the most personable and enjoyable of the poker vloggers.

Trooper and the JJ hand video - it says much about him that has already been said and confirmed so no need to repeat.

Boski gives the poker and mtt and some poker lifestyle fix and his delivery is getting better

Yes saw him posted that later on. I'm really surprised by this. I would figure even a very good player would have longer downswings/breakeven stretches than this. When Andrew mentioned his longest breakeven stretch was like 3 weeks, i thought... that just cannot be real etc.

I took it to mean his worst stretch. Three weeks of losing every single session (possibly big losses too).

A downswing/breakeven stretch can be 2 losses, a win, a big loss, small win, 3 losses --- etc. Each week not horrendous by itself, but over a couple of months, you are slowly sinking.

I laughed so damn hard at this video.

"I just hit Jason with chicken juice."

"I'm in the f#$ing dirt!"

Granted I was partaking in my avatar, but I got a legit 15 minutes of laughing out of Kraut's video.

Background on The Prince in PKs vids anyone?

this thread does not even approach the level of vitriol in the OG thread fwiw. the rest i pretty much agree with

Try Prinz Marcus von Anhalt on Google.

His thought process is interesting. However, in this particular spot, live tells would guide my decision as well. When I heard the guy speak in the video, I wanted to snap call him. That's why I thought this was a super easy spot for Trooper. I do agree that I think Trooper hero calls way too much.

Trooper probably has decent live reads. They have to be better than his grasp of playing good fundamental poker.

Vegas pro?? Ok what makes it so? He's gone busto what 2x? Gotten a job 2x? Won't study? Won't move up or is afraid to? Bad BRM!! So what does that make me with a 10k bankroll? With Good BRM? Never complains when I lose!! I never went busto?? Does this make me a VEGAS PRO?? I don't think so.

All the other guys are not rude, lazy and narcissistic! Especially Kraut and Andrew...Speaking of Andrew wow how fast he came running almost 50,000 subs and he's killing poker and youtube. I am wondering does anyone have links on how these guys build their youtube channels? OFA do you know?

Because Andrew is verrrry smart!! Also he can actually play poker and studies to get better.

Totally agree with you Steve if you can't beat 1-2 you shouldn't be playing.

I guess he doesn't care or isn't putting in the time to get more subs either way i don't know...what do I know lol.

Do you play in Vegas for a living? Do you have a baller apartment, nice car, and a beautiful woman at your side? If so, then you may be selling yourself short because you are definitely a Vegas pro too.

LOL I don't know what world you're living in but all that doesn't make you a pro but maybe so in your mind Peace out.

Trooper's latest video is a must not see..absolutely nothing of interest is in there..

i know this is super lazy of me but i haven't watched a troop vlog in prob 6 months. what happened to the kind fellow that was doing a running total on his results. that part still interests me. plz come back and update

hes quietly been crushing it this month, think hes up ~2k for march and also had winning months in jan and feb.