I, for one, pray that she never leaves him.

Everyone would SURELY know his name then.

Premiering on Netflix:

Escaping The Trooper - Just when you thought it was sweet. Tragedy Strikes

Lol

Those standards are just to get in the academy, but you actually have to be in much better shape when you get into the Metro academy. Once you are in you have to be a much better runner than that or else you are likely to just quit in the first week.

Even if you can pass the requirements easily, you could still be completely unprepared physically for the academy and still might quit the first week. That’s how big the difference is between the requirements and the academy. Some of the academy officers are runners so they will push the class harder too. And they make people do some of the running going up a steep hill.

Obviously having a low body weight is important when they have recruits doing stuff like running, planks or reverse planks, burpees, push-ups, pull-ups and wall climbing, etc.

Funny thing is once they get out on the streets it looks like they can be as fat as they want.

I'd like to see some of the people ITT staying up until 4-5am, every morning.. scrubbing and deleting every mean comment on their YouTube videos, then report back on how easy it is to wake up before 1pm.

The king keeps the kingdom a safe space.

And then when he wakes up, he has a bunch more comments to delete from overnight.

How many vlogs back does he keep tabs on? He might spend 10+ hours a week on this.

That all makes sense and I also think some of the people like OMC have no clue how bad they are. And if you played low stakes for years, you’ve seen a lot of bad players so you might even think you’re pretty decent or even good at the game.

Depends on the frequency of alerts he sets up from Youtube. You can get email notifications for every comment on your channel, or a daily/weekly summation, or alerts whenever there's a comment that has one of the phrases in your "Flagged/Banned words".

I would love to see his flagged/banned words. lol

When I watched a few Old Man Coffee videos I thought he was the nittiest, most scared vlogger I’ve seen by far and even some other OMC types would be courageous compared to him. Even if he makes some bad river calls he doesn’t have many chips in front of him so he never risks much.

I don’t want to hate on him though. His stuff was fascinating to watch because of his different style and it was interesting to see how he thinks and reacts to different situations.

I think most OMC guys would be scared to play 2/5 in Vegas. It plays much bigger and more aggressively than 1-3 and people will actually 3-bet with more than just AA or KK so the pots can get bigger much more quickly. 1-2 and 1-3 are often so passive.

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poor timmy having to type in all those words to activate it. omg

Well, if you've been playing NLHE for years, against a lot of random players, and have been enjoying it enough to keep doing it as a rec, at worst breaking even, then YES, you ARE decent or even good at the game you actually play. Wtf do you care how "bad" you might be if you get out of your chosen games if you are never going anywhere else ?

It's a F**king game after all and, as a rec, you enjoy playing it.

Fwiw, Steve if you really think $2-5 in Las Vegas is a real step up from $1-3 in Las Vegas, you suffer from a narcissism of minor differences.

$2-$5 ain't "one house -two house"

The list would be short since the observations have been pretty consistent.

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This is actually also true about Trooper. He is decent or good at the games he plays. He has been playing NL for years against a lot of random players. Same with El Diesel.

Because some people care, are competitive and want to get better even if they have no intention to be a pro.

And some people aren’t as competitive and would rather socialize, get comps, chase promotions, etc.

I don’t think either way is wrong.

You might be surprised at the number of players that wonder how they would do if they move up, even if they don’t make the move.

Yeah, but winning is more fun for a lot of people. Duh. And lots of people can be very competitive over something that is “a F****** game.” You think regs at 1-3 never get upset at bad beats and being on the wrong side of variance, even if they have no intention of moving up? You think they never look down on fish and berate players?

I also think some of the recs don’t know what to do if they wanted to get better.

I’ve noticed a big difference. Does that mean I think 2-5 games are super tough? Of course not. But I know that to keyboard warriors, every game is amazingly soft so they won’t notice a difference.

I need to go play at MGM so my comps don’t expire. I’ll check to see if “ragetext” is in the room. Guess I need to bring some bug spray.

LT video showing Trooper working the sorting department of the lollipop empire.

1/3 is literally people discovering poker for the first few times, and those with not tons of disposable income. v v soft

2/5 is people who figured out how not to do their stack in once nightly, and those with more disposable income. v soft

5/10 is just the same people with more money on both sides of the coin.

10/20 is a living nightmare.

all games sucked recently because euros and not all of them have gone home yet. maybe next world series i go over there seeing as every euro nit on earth seems to come here

10/20 and above is where money is made. Trying to exist at every level below is futile. What seems scary is where the money is made if prepared. Timmy, Rice and others are not seeing whats in front of them.

He's probably not playing for the money. It seems like he was quite successful before he retired, from the looks of his rig. He's probably got plenty of money.

I disagree. Have you seen his rig? His life roll is probably healthy. My WAG is his poker budget is fixed and if he blows the roll he doesn't play for awhile. It's entertainment for him, he gets to yack with the other players, etc. He's probably playing not to lose rather than trying to win.

And Dr Jill.

Lol might be a good plan

The thing is, sub 10/20 its not really viable to be a pro, and even for a lot of pro's at the 10/20 level, theres a lot of them beating it for smaller amounts like 30 to 70/hr, where its still pretty meh and a lot of effort for not that much money. You really got to be a big winner at 10/20 or you got to at least survive at 20/40+. I would say the last 5 years I generally chose the survive at 20/40+ option and I didnt really survive well enough lol

im also counting 5/10 or 10/10 games (like hollywood park or parx) where there is a mandatory straddle as effectively 10/20

Great comment.

I just don't understand some of the people here who are criticizing him for the way he plays. What is the point of analyzing and critiquing a rec player?

OMC certainly has led an interesting life. Here are some of the things he has done:

o Rode a horse cross country from California to Valley Forge, PA, arriving on July 4, 1976, for the bicentennial, and then rode back to Arizona.

o Worked for a few years as an actor and stunt man in commercials and movies, and doing 5 shows a day at Old Tucson.

o In 1980, began working as a deputy sheriff and did that over a seven-year period for two different counties, before moving to Laughlin to work as a security officer and then dealer (pit, not poker).

o In 1990, moved to California and became a harbor patrolman on Catalina Island.

o In 1993, sailed from California, through the Panama Canal, and moved to Biloxi, MS where he lived on his sailboat for 11 years while dealing in several different casinos.

o When Katrina hit in 2005, all the casinos closed and OMC changed careers once again and became a property insurance adjuster.

o He did that until 2017 and then the following year moved in his RV to Las Vegas where he plays poker for fun while paying his living expenses with his Social Security check.

o Oh, and he was a professional pool player throughout the 1980s.

When asked if he had any regrets in his life, he said not a one. I'm not sure many people could honestly say the same.


So after all that, who cares if he wants to spend time now in his later years socializing and nitting it up in a $1/$2 NL game for a few hours a night?

There seems to be alot of things you dont understand, so yeah. The simple answer is this is a _poker_ forum, and this is the Las vegas _poker_ vloggers thread. That should give you a hint of why some of us are discussing his play or criticizing his play if you will.

Rice isn't in his 20s lol