Gladiator soundtrack. Can't beat some Zimmer/Gerrard

I made a poker-vlogger-quiz at a swedish poker forum, but no one manage to get all the questions right. Can any one of you solve the quiz?

1. Andrew Neeme uses a special word to describe a good flop. What is that word?
2. Alec Torelli analyzes poker hands on Youtube. His series of analyzes has a name. What's the name of the series?
3. Nick Johnson from Arch City Poker does not update his channel anymore. The reason for that is...
4. To Bart Hanson's channel you can call (call in show) and get poker hands analyzed live. What is his channel's name?
5. Brad Owen has a pet sometimes seen in his videos. The pet is a ...?
6. Nathan Williams plays low stakes. But under which nick is he more famous as?
7. Jaman Burton often wears a t-shirt with ... (artist)
8. Trooper97 (Tim Watts) has a site where he sells t-shirts and caps with a special slogan. That slogan is...?
9. Doug Polk (WCGRider) has three WSOP bracelets and about 170k subscribers on Youtube. But what is his poker site called?
10. PokerKraut is a German poker blogger in Las Vegas. People send gifts to him. What is he collecting?
11. Jeff Boski prefers to play internet poker on which site?

Blow me 😀

More interesting would be the answer stats from the Swedish forum, to see how "international" each of the vloggers are.

Trust me, they failed big time.
And I even gave them 3 options for every question!

I keep seeing this theme that Trooper is a winning player because he has shown profit over his lifetime earnings at poker. To me this is like saying you can run a marathon even if it took you a week and you walked the entire distance. In this scenario you cant lose. Making $2/hr at 1/2 is not really winning if you know what I mean. The difference between winners and losers at 1/2 is simply a matter of gamblers vs grinders. If you're down 10k at 1/2 you are trying to lose. At minimum you certainly arent trying to win. Anyone can show a profit at the lowest limit of poker if they read half of 1 book, literally any book, even if it was for SnG hyper turbos, and apply it to NL200 live and make $2/hr. This isnt winning, this is just riding some statistical curve of inevitability that stipulates if you at least try to win you'll break even. Whenever I'd see someone call 50BB preflop with 54o just to get into the middle of a predictable 5 way allin I never thought they were making a mistake, they obviously didnt give a ****. They didnt think this was a winning strat, they just enjoyed the rush of gambling. Their goal wasnt to make money, it was to beat some particular player.

So no, I do not think Troop is some sort of proven "winner" just because he's not tens of thousands in the red at the lowest limit of poker. And truth be told, if he is on some losing streak then thats just evidence that he's regressing into player type 1 that I first mentioned, someone who just doesnt care anymore and is playing for fun.

Boski appears to be banning and deleting more comments than Troop.

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Kah-Whan-is

One reason his losing streaks are so bad is he has some major tilt issues.

It's all perspective. If you have a real job and just play poker for fun, winning 1 cent an hour makes you a winning player. If you play poker for a living then yes, You need to make a sustainable hourly rate in order to be considered a winner. I think trooper is over his delusion that he was a professional poker player.

I rest my case

Do you think it could be the case that since Trooper does reasonably well with his merchandise sales that there is less pressure to win at poker and therefore he is more willing to mess around?

Not saying that is a valid line of thinking for a reasonable person, but to me it seems when Trooper was supporting himself solely from poker he played better and was more profitable.

I was wrong. I ignored Jaman’s blog up until now.

I thought he was just another guy who would flame out. I was hesitant bc of his affiliation with Trooper (one train wreck vlog is enough for me to follow). I thought the Bieber thing was corny and a cry for attention.

I was wrong. Great vlog. Great reasonable LAG style. Probably my 2nd favorite vlog to Neeme.

Wonder if its cause people keep asking why he had Hendon delete his 3.4mega in lifetime online poker earnings stat?

Why would he do that?

Wonder what happened to Make Cody

He had potential to be up there with Neeme until he vanished

He has huge depression issues he has been dealing with and I think that has impacted his blogging significantly.

I disagree with this. In fact, I could not disagree more. Some of us aren't cut out to win. Be it our mindset, inability to learn or I'm just plain stupid. I've made a thread about it here. It isn't because I don't try to get better, it isn't because I don't read books and it isn't because I just run bad.

I'm not good at the game, I'm a losing player. In fact, it caused me to make a decision to quit the game earlier this year.

I still love the game and enjoy talking/reading about it, but I know I can't win so I don't play anymore. Thus, I disagree with your statement that anyone who applies themself can win.

Trooper in another great game

Might have been a great game but man was that rock music he had in there horrid.

If Troop is a $2/hr lifetime winner at NLHE, he's still a winner and better than most players.

I thought his recorded winrate was something like $5 an hour. Wasn't his net profit +$21k or something like that over the last few years?