It really is weird how obsessed he is with you. Probably a good thing you moved to Florida so you don't have to worry about him stalking you IRL.

My personal answer is that I wanted to play in as many rooms as possible while I was there and it was the same night as the Sting concert. Planned for 3 hours, played for less than 90 minutes.
Nitty and dirty and just a gross room to play in.

Old Man Coffee captures Trooper on film, at Trooper Thursday.
So Trooper is officially alive.
Note: Kinda amazing how quickly OMC gets his TT vlog up on YouTube.

https://youtu.be/zQaxUH2EsZs?t=415

Once you get accustomed to that 50k/month lifestyle it’s very hard to willingly move back down to stakes where 10k is a good month. Very few players move down until they are absolutely forced to ie broke. If poker players were smart they would just keep living the same lifestyle even after they moved up but most just go out and buy a 60k Tesla the second their net worth hits 6 figures

OMC comes from a generation where men were men and knew how to put in an honest days worth of work.

Dividends don't usually suffer much, or at all. The company usually has enough cash to make up for temporary shortfalls and they figure they can ride through a recession. Some companies are nearly guaranteed a certain amount of profit, like utilities.

Once el Diesel reveals his dividend portfolio strategy, he'll prove he's the next Mike Milken minus the insider trading stuff.

The lack of self respect today is astounding. One can live in meemaw's basement and play video games all day and not work and be fine with it.

El Diesel will be the last vlogger standing

Yeah, I agree with your assessment. From what I've seen of Mariano's play, he seems to be skewed toward overbluffing. Since this has worked out well for him thus far, when it doesn't work out in a hand, he seems to think the hands it didn't work out in were the result of runbad, and doesn't consider the possibility that the successful bluffs might have been the result of running good.

I would assume that he has a reputation for bluffing, resulting in him getting fewer folds vs. people familiar with his rep. As a result, I'd think that he'd adjust and bluff less frequently against people he knows are familiar with his rep, especially against friends of his, like Rampage, who know definitively that he's a bluffier player and are more likely to give him less respect.

I think many of us will agree on this. Although the area around Maryland Live is super expensive he could easily make $20/hr there with his style.

I can’t remember if he said if he liked that room or not

Watched the Mariano vid. Only got to about the 8m mark and then had to skip to see the big hand. Really hard to watch 20 minutes of that for me.

But he plays pretty damn solid. The AQs bluff was pretty boss. I respect the balls.

We never get to see from Rampage view though. He could've been tearing up like Tom Dwan when he bluffed Ivey on HSP.

Sick call by Rampage.

The problem Mariano has is:

When he was on his sun-run this year..his ridiculous bluffs were getting through

It all went to his head..it doesn’t work all of the time

He needs to chill or take a break

Talk about stale vlogs.
Rampage's latest vlog is from June 16th.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4oUALBkVvI

Rampage might be the worst for releasing stale old vlogs.

If a poker player takes terrible betting lines..I can’t watch their vlogs

That’s why I can watch Owen or Rampage

It is part of Owen's branding that a majority of what he shows are his good betting lines in his vlogs; it is a part of Rampage's branding that he shows a lot of terrible betting lines in his vlogs.

Change of Subject:

Has el Diesel ever revealed his VPIP, PFR, and other HUD stuff for his live play? Links?

Obviously he doesn't know his true VPIP/PFR, he's done a bunch of days where he will track how many pots he wins, how many walks, how many all ins, how much in tips, etc... Leave a suggestion for him to track how many pots he VPIPs/PFRs and he'll do it one day.

That being said he's been pretty clear that he has played LAGgy before but is now a massive nit who just waits to flop big hands and then value bets because 1-2 droolers will still pay him off. Probably like 15%/8%.

The 15% VPIP might be a bit generous.

Just started watching Mariano after reading the past few pages of this thread. He seems like a good dude and I hope he’s able to turn it around.

His AQ hand did seem like a bit of a punt. But I think you have to kinda be familiar with the game to say definitively one way or the other. I’ve been watching Rampage’s blogs for a little while and it seems to me that the best way to beat him isn’t gonna be by trying to push him off an overpair. But kudos for having the balls to give it a shot.

Rice's bookkeeping class deserves more than 565 subscribers.

Maybe not.

Looks like Diesel is getting "Sick" and will probably complete the food challenge if he doesn't pass out from hunger.

No idea how much it matters for a general audience, but I said before WSOP he should change his editing during WSOP.

Rampage is obviously very adept at youtube. So maybe I'm wrong, but it makes no sense to me that WSOP tournaments would just go into a queue for his editor like a normal cash game video and come out a month+ later.

So far, he's down to 13 cents for his last day. And seems to still not have comps that would take him to the finish line. What he can do is save the fries from the second to the last day, and eat it on the last day. Maybe save half of the burger bun too.

9 days with no videos, he has been working hard on this.