Trooper PLO video up. Trooper "I was stuck $900 and now ....." Yea like Trooper would be near that game without a full stake.

How do you play that game with 300 in front of you? Everyone else has 2000 and the pots are huge.

Get a job Trooper. Scared money doesn't cut it.

Saving one $300 bullet and investing it into some hyper-targeted Facebook Ads for Go-Gamble would be the game changer that Trooper is looking for. Build a look-a-like audience on Facebook of Male/Females Age 25+ who have visited Vegas in the past year, who have made other clothing purchases through facebook ads, and friends-of-friends on Facebook. Skew the serve of ads 75% Male to 25% female, and bid around $0.10-0.25 cents a click. He can buy 1000-1500 clicks to the Go Gamble store (which integrates into his Shopify backend) and even if he gets a 2% conversion rate, he's gonna profit. He can eventually scale that, get on invoicing from Facebook so he pays his advertising bill monthly (instead of prepaying his advertising budget) and he will have liquid capital flowing in to scale his brand.

It ain't rocket science, I've brought dozens of companies to scale on social media ads in my years of internet advertising and I went into this industry self taught. I now work for an investment firm that spends nearly 6 figures a day on internet advertising and I was a C/D student for the majority of my life.

He's should really consider pivoting his business model.

A few vloggers i have watched and curious about your opinions.


Does anyone know what Matt Vaughn does for a living? He mentions he doesn't play for a living but he never mentioned what he does. He would post hands of him playing mostly 1/2 and 1/3 and a few 2/5 etc. Also does anyone think he is not that good of a player? His logic for many of hands that he plays doesn't really seem that good to me at all. I like watching his vlogs though.


Brad Owens is apparently a 2/5 reg in vegas right? Also does anyone think he is probably an average to maybe an above average reg only? He is certainly solid but the hands that he posts, he seems to be a bit weak tight etc. I enjoy watching his vlogs but curious what others think about him.

I've played many times with Brad O. mostly at Red Rock and he's as solid as they come for Vegas regs. Here's the thing, unless it's late night on the strip, many Vegas games are really slow and not very swingy without drunk tourists. The games in Vegas can be much slower than anywhere I've ever played, especially off strip. When you're playing for a living, there's absolutely no reason to get tricky at these lower levels in the very slow, reg infested Vegas games. Simple ABC poker is still profitable at 1/2 - 2/5 and I like Brad's vlogs because his play reaffirms that.

I do recall Matt saying he works for a poker coaching site (I forgot which one) but I agree he does have a lot to improve on. The only vlogger that does play every hand pretty much the same way I would is JohnnieVibes. Andrew Neeme doesn't have a fold button at times which is also a pretty huge leak imo.

I like Brad's vlogs, but I don't think he's "as solid as they come" by any means. I see him flatting in a lot of spots where I would def. 3bet rather than play fit or fold basically, and another example is in his last vlog "three massive all-in's" when he 3bet AK pre otb, flopped an inside straight draw, cbet, was called, then on a blank turn he bet, got check raised then he jammed the rest of his chips (started with $2.5K) which was basically throwing his money away in a clear check-back spot (his opponent called a 3bet then flatted a cbet, so he's pretty much not folding to a turn 3 on the turn with TJx otf).

I subscribed to Trooper and have been watching all of his recent videos. I'm enjoying them but the 360 ones are very dull. I wish Neeme could come somewhere close to matching the volume of videos that Trooper puts out.

Here's some stuff I did when I came to Vegas and places I take friends and family visiting town:

Pinball Hall of Fame, Red Rock for a hike, Golden Knights game (maybe pricey so go to the free practices that get packed), go to the new soccer team or the minor league baseball games at Cashman Field, Valley of Fire, Grand Canyon, Hoover Dam, ghost towns outside Vegas, Mt. Charleston, midnight bowling for $1 at casino alleys (make it a competition like with Feather), Top Golf (pricey but go off hours for the cheaper price), waterpark with a go pro camera, different coffee shops around town and get scenery shots from other parts of town (he started doing this but stopped), graveyard special food runs, Town Square and Downtown Summerlin, top of Stratosphere or Eiffel Tower, the bulldozing place (call them and cut a discount rate to be featured in the vlog), the place where you go and destroy objects inside of a room for $35 for 30 minutes, one of the Vegas food festivals like the food truck one or the taco one, the Mob Museum or one of the other museums, Chinatown (CHEAP and DELICIOUS FOOD), show strip locations probably not featured on the vlog yet like M&M store or Hershey World, crash a wedding in one of those chapels, check out the rodeo in Dec...

There's a ton more stuff and I'm sure some of these things aren't in his interest range (which is pretty limited outside of watching Youtube videos, drinking coffee, ranting in his car, eating fast food, and playing poker), but this is a start and it took me 3 minutes to think of these. A Yelp search, GroupOn search, and a Google search will yield way more results.

Or he can wake up everyday, show his filthy apartment, get a coffee, complain about traffic while showing the strip from I-15, walk around the strip complaining about his pet peeve of the day (unions, security, slow tourists, or the 3 card monty game), and then play/not play poker and show us himself folding 93o and K4o twice and giving results. Ohhh, an a hat delivery mixed in.

MrDucks 2020

I noticed in his Westgate Saturday PLO vlog he basically edited the 360 feed into a standard HD format which came out pretty good and if he did that for the other vlogs I think more people would watch them instead of the straight 30 min. of raw unedited video.

But still you spend 3 reactions on the subject.... Chapeau!!

To the poster above who remarked that Boski doesn't post enough strat talk, I'm not sure I agree and he definitely delves into that - quite well IMO - in the vids he posts for the tourneys he plays on ACR. Sure, it's online, but much of it carries over into the live tourney environment as well.

Impossible, at least impossible with Neeme's current format. Trooper doesn't do a ton of post production(graphical work, voice-over, text overlay, etc) and to be 100% honest that's where the majority of time in Neeme's(JVibes, Matt Vaughn, Owens, etc and my) editing is spent.

Chopping thru drive footage, walking around footage, talking to the camera footage can go rather quickly once you get a workflow down to manage it.

That being said, I believe what Trooper does is 1000 times harder than what all the other vloggers do. Putting together a vlog EVERY DAY, is tough, really tough. Hell, I like working out but can't find time to do it every damn day.

So even though the post-production "poker" content might not be to your liking, he still has to get those really good city shots...every day. Edit...every day. Find non-copyrighted music...everyday. Render, export, publish...every day. That's arduous man, I couldn't imagine. How he was doing all that and still even trying to "deliver gear to fans" is pure craziness.

I would argue that in 1 week Trooper is still generating more poker content than all the vloggers(myself included). Yes, not all of anyones videos are going to be slam dunks, everyone produces a dud here and a dud there because not every day or every session is 'memorable', but the ethic to 'produce something' everyday and still have time to do normal 'life' stuff(shopping, laundry, sleep, etc) is beyond commendable.

If I were to have produced a vlog yesterday, you would have seen me cleaning the house, watching the super bowl, drinking coffee, walking on a treadmill and today is even more boring...ha!

I truly believe that the vlog styles are completely different, it's just that the audiences intersect a bit. Andrew has a style, Trooper has a style, Polk a different style, Ingram does it another way...It's like comparing a morning drive radio show to a weekly podcast, kind of the same, there are similarities but VASTLY different in production.

Either way, anything that grows the audience at the end of the day is a win for everyone right? So people that want to hear hand analysis and thought process have an outlet and those that want to see Vegas, some poker content and go on a journey have another outlet...that's not a bad thing.

What Neeme produces is phenomenal, I think we can all agree there but doing it everyday would kill the man in under 3 weeks.

This is just my opinion of course.
Jaman

I don’t disagree with any of the above, but maybe Trooper should try to work smarter, not harder..

Trooper is an artist not an executive. You can tell by that when he takes to to comment on how beautiful a view is, or how great a day it is, or how good the temperature is, and also, he things suck in taste and sound and looks.

If you know artists (inside out expressive thinking), you know its very hard - almost impossible - for them to shift mindset to executive (outside in feedback driven actions). Van Gogh only sold one painting (out of 400 plus) during his four years in southern France.

He is not doing the videos the way he used to. In the past I went back and watched his earlier videos of him in Vegas and thought they were far more interesting. He would show his life over a period of 2-3 days instead of just showing 1 day like he does today. Even with the way he lived his life, much of the stuff that happened in the vlog seemed more significant. He wouldn’t do as much talking just to fill up time.

Doing it every day seems to have burned him out which can make the videos worse. When he had fewer videos I thought he enjoyed vlogging a lot more.

Also personally I look forward to videos more if they don’t come out every day. I find myself asking when Andrew, Brad and Boski will come out with a new video far more often than I wonder when Trooper will.

Heads up: The Troopah has an idea percolating. Hopefully eighth time is a charm!

He had a recent one when utg raised, 2 people called and he flatted AK on the btn that surprised me. During the video he said there was no excuse for that, but I wondered why he did that if he thought it was clearly a mistake.

96% of all businesses fail within 10 years. In the show Shark Tank less than 1% of all applicants get to pitch to the sharks, and even fewer make it on TV. Only 1 in 16 that get invested in succeed.

Trooper has many ideas and acts on them right away. This is good because no amount of analysis can beat actual feedback from the market. And a majority of ideas will - all ideas, not just Trooper's - will fail. This is reality.

Trooper's #AsTheBoss seems to be failing. To his credit, he has stopped pushing it and has gone back to Go Gamble pending future ideas. He is to be commended for making a quick fold. Nothing wrong with failing. Nothing wrong with giving up. A majority will fail. The key is to constantly fail cheaply then double down when something works.

The 360 vlogs are a different story. He got too emotionally invested in it that he has continued to hang on despite constantly failing. He should pivot either by stopping it completely or incorporating it as just part of a bigger whole.

Hopefully, Trooper learns from what he has done right and what he has done wrong in terms of responding to negative market/audience feedback.

I unfollowed trooper on twitter after he twittered #XRP in December. Textbook definition of missed the boat.

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when will we see the bloggers group up with everyone for a sicko episode?

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Neem's Super Bowl 2018 vlog...

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

Ouch! Absolutely brutle for our boy Troop today.

So I just discovered Jaman Burton and Matt Vaughan. Subscribed to both. Good work guys!

My current rotation is:

1. Troop
2. Kraut
3. Neeme
4. Boski
5. Vaughan
6. Burton

What happened to my other guys: PokerMonk and Viggo???