I'm definitely gonna start letting those ads run from now on. More money in these guy's pockets means more money in the poker eco system.

Click the youtube link below for PokerKraut's rant.


Very interesting. What are the buyins? Was it a $5 mandatory straddle as opposed to a blind? Can you restraddle ?

What was the verdict on collecting unemployment all this time from getting let go?
If he isn't reporting YT and Shirt sales then that wouldn't affect collecting.

Inheritance is definitely a possibility.

You don't think of that much in your 20's or even 30's, but when you get older, you find relatives dropping like flies and they have to leave their monies to someone..

Not necessarily. Trooper does the bare minimum which means if he makes more money from vlogging then he plays less poker. If he makes more money from tshirts, he does less vlogging.

You only get money left to you by parents mostly or if you were old and had an old friend that had no family and since his mother is still alive and he isn't old yet, its highly unlikely he inherited money.

I agree with this assessment of Trooper "logic", which of course doesn't explain why he wastes hundreds of dollars every month on fast food on the Strip at inflated prices, when he can easily buy groceries at a fraction of his current food costs.

Actually there is one explanation..Trooper's laziness trumps all..

Yeah it's not from inheritance lol, I was looking for realistic ideas

I think realistically he doesn't have much money, perhaps 1-2 months of living expenses. When he was working on rolling out his new T-shirt store he said he had a lot of his life/poker roll invested in the rollout, which is surprising because a drop-ship business like that doesn't require much investment.

The dramatic, slow-mo' bag drop.

Troop seems to be hopping around a lot to different casinos. I think he'd do better if he just stuck with one place and grinded it out. When you play at one place it also helps to recognize regs and who's good and who's a fish. Also he should probably stick with weekend games, although I'm sure the weeknight games are still soft in Vegas.

Once the people at a particular poker room know that he is a lagtard fish, he can't "control" them anymore, so he has to find other games.

Good point. There's just no way that kind of money (thousands per month) is possible. I'm guessing perhaps a few hundred a month, at best. Besides, Trooper is consistent about near-daily vids and what little he makes from them is a big motivator to keep pumping them out like an assembly line.

Most people, including Trooper know this.

Trooper has taken some horrible beatings on weekdays, yet can't stop himself from hitting the tables on weekdays.

Another reason I believe he is a clinical degenerate gambler.

Question: How the heck does Trooper not run out of money ?

Trooper has been on a horrific downswing since dissing Cincinnati hotel ghost.

Apparently every game he's in is a 'good game', before he loses a few buy ins, so I think he's of the opinion everyone else at the table is a fish, no matter where he is.

Dude's not going 'busto' There's enough $$ trickling in through YT, shirts, Patreon, etc., to continue battling the poverty line indefinitely. If your only aim in watching is to witness a disastrous end, do yourself a favor and stop.

Mostly on 1/2, 1/3, weekdays and weekends aren't terribly different, at least in the evening/night

As a reg I would often be wary of players sitting with starbucks or a large hot coffee. Not even kidding those were always the more serious (trooper style) players. A hustler in vegas would probably notice trooper immediately.

Wtf... its <$1/1000 views.... he probably made 10k with t-shirt sales. ...

Ho much does he get from the shirts? I'm guessing like 2-3$ for one

Do you mean my ad blocker is costing Troop $000s?

Great laugh if you believe Troop's family has $ or that anyone would leave him a penny.

definitely more than this. the shirts were a great idea. they're just print to order. there's a temporary thing though. i like his line of thinking wit hthe state shirts, but even those are probably not a longterm "brand" obviously.

I guess 10$... How many did he sell yet.... 1000... 2000 (with coffee mugs)?

$5 mandatory button straddle, $200-400 buyin. The max should be higher but they don't want to take away from the normal $1k cap $2/5 game. You can restraddle UTG $10. The game can be pretty epic depending on who's playing.

Trooper bought in $200, ran it up to $1100 pretty quickly, then lost a big hand and left with about $350-400.

Some hands he played for those interested:

UTG open $15, trooper calls on his button straddle. 89Tr flop, UTG $20, Trooper minraise $40, UTG call. Turn 8. UTG checks, Trooper shoves $140ish, UTG folds. He didn't show.

Trooper raise UTG $15, someone calls, SB who is a 2/5 reg 3b $70, Trooper calls, other player folds. Flop K83r, SB $70, Trooper calls. Turn 9, SB shoves $150ish, Trooper snaps with KK, SB shows a king so I'm assuming he had AK/KQ.

UTG raise $15, UTG+1 3b $30, Trooper cold 4b SB $70, UTG folds, UTG+1 calls. Flop K92r, Trooper leads $70ish, UTG+1 calls. Turn K. Trooper leads $125, UTG+1 calls. River T. Trooper shoves $250, UTG+1 tank calls. Trooper has AA, UTG+1 can't beat that.

He had somewhere between $1100-1200 at that point. Then he lost a couple small pots and then this one:

Trooper raise UTG $20, button straddler calls, they are about $700 effective. K75xcc flop, Trooper $25, straddler raise to $60, Trooper call. Turn 4x, Trooper checks, button $125, Trooper tank call. River Jx. Trooper check, button quickly bets $300, Trooper calls. Button has AA, Trooper muck, I assume he had AK/KQ with the UTG open and call down. Personally, I'd just fold turn when button mashes it for a near PSB and the 68 gets there. I definitely didn't expect button to have aces though.

There was an earlier hand with the same button player where he limped, Trooper raised to $15, he called. Flop was 346r, he checked, Trooper $15, he c/r $45, Trooper call. Turn 2, he leads $125 and Trooper folds JJ face up. The limper showed a Qc. Weird one if he didn't have Q5cc...I guess QQ is possible.


I thought he played fine for the most part. I don't think AA is a triple barrel shove the way that hand played out when the K pairs on the turn since the other guy's range is basically QQ and AK and the QQ is usually folding, but good for him on getting the max. IMO the last hand could've been avoided being OOP in a single-raised heads up pot, but he obviously decided to call it down if the board bricked out and it did.

If you are talking about his profit, I'm guessing that number is more like 1-2 K than 10 K..