That Diesel hand was a prime example of someone playing to win hands, not money.

I did not think Tim raising money to enter the Main was scam, in ANY sense of the word.

I saw it as a good way for him to generate "Trooper original" and "Trooper-focussed" content

Ironically, he even turned down money from some people. This was not a scam along the lines of Max Bialystock

Are you asserting Tim did NOT play in the Main Event ?

My assertion is that a fish like Hamster is scamming people when he charges a markup that allows him to have a 20% freeroll in a tournament he effectively has about a 1% of mincashing, and no chance of winning.

I know he played the main - he was at the table of an acquaintance of mine for a couple hours.

The brand he has built for himself is the scam. Go Gamble? He doesn’t gamble at all (he’s a ****ing nit) and when he does gamble (WSOP Main), it’s with other people’s money.

Hamster97 is a grifter, and a really bad one at that.

Agreed, and if its not fully a scam in the real sense of the word- what he did is really really bending the margins for what is accepted.

We disagree. Tim played in the Main and presumably gave his best effort. No grift/scam, sorry.

I respect your opinion. He gave himself maximum upside (even though that upside caps out lower than most) while not investing a single dollar of his own money which is a grifter move IMO.

If he’d had even a small amount invested in himself, I would say ok. But if he isn’t willing to do it, no one else should either, and that’s why I’m calling it a grifter move.

We're all just jealous that we don't have fans and supporters to back us in a 10k tournament so we can have a shot at 20% of the prizepool and a booming lollipop business.

I've always thought he was a white bowling guy who works in sales...who knew?

It was absolutely a grift. He can't beat 1/2 nl and had the audacity to charge insane markup and have 0 dollars invested himself.

But Go Gamble!

He also even dabbled in the idea of entering another big event "to show the haters" of course with the money of his followers (Go Gamble!) but that grift fell flat on its face.

Of course he gave his best effort,after all "nobody tried harder" lmao.


Now is it as big of a scam as if he took the money and didn't play or if he cashed and didn't pay? No but it's still a scam.

I think it’s all a grift but the biggest scam is that Trooper admitted to playing a lag-tard strategy in the small buy in stuff (punting a folding stack on the bubble) and then it was speculated here that he was virtually blinded out of the 10k main because he played so weak-tight.

The Troops do not care about markup and how good Trooper is at poker and are paying for the sweat to live through Trooper, but if it was disclosed Trooper is not going to play to the best of his own personal abilities due to how large or small the buy in is, way less people would buy and rightfully so.

El Diesel's latest hand was a mess lol, weird how he's so proud of that hand.

Wrong move at the right time.

Fwiw, Tim refused to accept my money because I was not signed up with his site or some similar reaason

Just want to point out that it doesent really matter if the Troops is caring about EV or any of that stuff: what Hamster97 did is still very questionable i think. Rigging yourself to get a total freeroll in a 10K main event with zero of your own money at risk that he have zero business playing when he cant even beat 1/2 NL over a decent sample is just shady as ****.

Another ho hum vlog from Little Timmy. Played Boulder Station this time, which is a long drive from the Skye Canyon area.

He flats QQ in the SB to a single raise from late position (in his words, he was "calling for value"), check calls flop on JTx (again, "for value"), leads the turn 9 (to get value from AJ/KJ), and turns his hand into a bluff (?) on the 7 river, getting KK to fold.

I can see why a lot of people don't want to play in the Vegas 1/3 games when they are filled with insanely bad tight miserable regs like him. It's like pulling teeth to get him to put in $100 into a pot without AA or the stone nuts.

The flatting for value with QQ as he said is hilarious. The coping mechanisms these risk averse supernits create for themself to avoid putting in any significant money without the stones is absolutely amazing.

The local bumpkins have no chance against Trooper's awesomeness.

I did a search of markup on Trooper's homepage, and this video came up. He starts speaking about markup 3:20 in the video below. He stated whatever people do is their own business, and people selling pieces with markup, let the market decide what your markup is worth, based on any evidence you're able to provide. While he changed his mind on personally charging markup between pre-lockdown and post-lockdown circumstances, I don't believe calling it a scam (even at 100% freeroll).

I do agree Trooper's prior results don't warrant one beyond perhaps entertainment or shits & giggle value, which I believe was the approach most of his investors have taken when staking him over the years.

Lol read my location, I’m a private citizen in Washington DC, that watches a lot of vlogs because you know this is a thread about poker vlogs on a poker forum. You outted yourself trying to be a tough guy, I just provided context and to tip my cap to Foatie.

Yeah cause people cant change their location on 2+2 right? Guess we'll take your word for it.

Im not who you think I am, not tough to fool such elite thinkers in this thread though

now we need someone from arlington to come forward and the circle will be complete

Calling for value?

What.
A.
Fish.

This is exactly how you know he's put ZERO effort into being an actual poker player.

Hamster97's entire channel, including GGWOPM is a grift.

You keep using that word, "grift". I do not think it means what you think it means

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

Inconceivable!

It's hilarious. I remember he once said he flatted a raise prefop from a lunatic because he was "deep" with 500 ish. It was a straddle pot.