Troop continuing slow bleed on $10 Blast tournaments. Interesting he downgraded from $20 to $10 buy-ins. He's down approx $260 since he resumed playing online. What's the appeal of Blast tournaments? Is it a random first place prize that could be much higher than the buy-ins?

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Maybe he films a minute or two when he plays to include in a Costco or making/eating food vlog if he cashes. Has he even made a vlog for his Westgate anniversary meet-up?

Rice's video wasn't far different from the first one beyond noting his sleep sitting in the car with sunglasses routine. He still has at least one more room-less vlog to go leaving off Saturday afternoon. He didn't state whether he found a poker dealer interested in his latest dealer free food offer, this one a cup of meat (pork and or chicken) from the players lounge.

Troopers are going to third party route of making of the pops just like the GO GAMBLE coffee blend. The big secret is The LVFM

That's pretty cool. Haven't been to the LVFM in years.

No one sells new ones?

Nope, I wanted to touch on the lack of hygiene.

Mouthbreeder, any fish that breeds its young in the mouth. Examples include certain catfishes, cichlids, and cardinal fishes. The male of the sea catfish Galeichthys felis places up to 50 fertilized eggs in its mouth and retains them until they are hatched and the young are two or more weeks old.

Forget the 360 camera pioneered by T.

Rice should initiate "Smellvision" to commemorate his aversion to personal hygiene.

This guy is always sitting in the third seat at TT.

Tim most likely makes between 1/2c to 1c per view on his channel. Wolfgang reported he averages about $10 per 1,000 views (1c/view). If Tim averages 200,000 views per month, that translates to between $1,000 - $2,000. I estimate the Westgate pays him a flat weekly fee for Trooper Thursday, maybe around $300 - $350/week, or about $1,200 - $1,400 per month. Add those two together and you arrive at $2,200 - $3,400 monthly. Not exactly raking in the money, but it explains why Christina also got into the game to contribute toward monthly expenses by introducing Sparkli and her own YT channel.

Yeah thats about what id assume from his lifetstyle and things hes said, id assume 3-4k a month, 4 would be upper bound

The Troopers simply do not have the volume to have a third-party manufacturer make their product.
Besides, Lady Christina said the SPRKLi Pops are made with love, a contract manufacturer cdn't duplicate the love.

Oh, and the LVFM checks for proper county hygiene licenses I believe.

Your estimates are way too high for Trooper's monthly gross income, especially of late.
Trooper barely makes YouTube videos anymore, barely has hyped his GoGamble crap lately.

Agreed. I think it's around $1,200-1,500 per month, BEFORE SPRKLI.

That's ridiculously low and can't possibly be anywhere close to correct. His TT income alone would eclipse that easily.

Yeah Hamster said that TT was the majority of his income. So I’d imagine YouTube income is 1k or less and falling.

Gentlemen, there's no way he's making more than $300 per month from YT right now. He might have made more in the past and he might make more in the future. But for now, $300 per month is a generous estimate.

I continue to stand by my estimate of $350 in Westgate rake-back each week.

$350 * 4.3 weeks per month = $1,505

Then, LDV produced figures showing that he lost ($4,795) in 35 weeks of TT this year. So, that's ($137 per week). Is this or is this not an operating expense? I argue it is because he's really not playing anymore and wouldn't be incurring those expenses.

($137) * 4.3 weeks = ($590) per month deduction from incurred poker losses)

Soooo......

$300 YT
plus: $1,505 Westgate rake back
Equals: $1,805
Less: ($590) TT poker losses
Net from YT and Westgate: $1,215 per month income

This then seemed too low so I increased the estimate to $1200-$1500 per month.

Rip apart the figures!

Most YouTube estimates include watching all the ads or most of the ads, and watching the whole vlog. Also liking the vid and commenting and non subscribers deciding to subscribe. So many variables add to or subtract from the potential money. YouTube likes growth, stagnant channels get punished monetarily. Troopers channel is stagnant to negative growth....not good for getting paid .

How does someone play the 1/2 for as long as he has and still not crush those games? Has he never read even one book? Took any training? Whyyy?

Cause the villain stacked his chips in stacks of tens vs. 20, so he called, or the villain 4 bet and looked off to the left, so he must be bluffing. Oops, oh well it was a good game.

Because he was never good at poker.
While players in 1/2 nl are always bad, his game is exactly the same as it was a decade ago,players on average even in 1/2 are better and rake is higher.

He's a know it all who knows nothing.

Books are for sucks

Okay, I stand corrected. Missed the reference entirely.

( I heard hooves and thought horses, not zebras).

You talkin' to me ?

I see myself in your words.

!. I believe styles make fights.

2. I don't WANT people to respect my raises, so why move up in stakes ?

3. I play primarily for entertainment, and am not afraid to lose in some exchanges for that reason.

Trooper's YT income will be solely driven by Rice's obsessive viewing of all his videos.

I believe you are closer with this estimate when it comes to Hamsters income these days. His YT channel is basically dead now and have been for months as he isnt making videos anymore on a regular basis+ his views is at an alltime low point.

Also its worth remembering that some TT have been cancelled this fall+ the times its only one table packed with Diesel,OMC and other supernits the pay cant be very good on such table.

Him losing alot of money back into the TT games is also a point worth mentioning, so his net income/realistic income is impacted by this of course.

No way Hamster is pulling 4K a month if we are talking the recent 3-4 months. Westgate is basically his sole income in the recent months as his other income streams seems to be dead. If Lady T didnt pull off the growth of Sparkly they would be struggling alot imo.