Eating cheese and crackers, a bag of chip or left overs from the strip, does not constitute eating at home. lol

I was curious and had to watch. It wasn't really a meltdown. He just seem disappointed not to get recognized for the best poker year of his life. I was about to fall asleep on his 20 minute melancholy depressed tirade but I perked up around 10 min in when he started talking being a fighter and coming back from Busto with a mortgage (Anyone have cliffs on this)...Then he want back to his depression and maybe quitting poker..... Like someone else we know

I used think Doug was goofy but I gained respect for him over last year. I really think at times he detests having to play with a bunch unsavory characters for living. Watch video where he has to be in the company of Hashtag King. It looks like he wants to rip his skin of his own body. He is miserable

YouTube ad revenue is not much unless you have half a million subscribers or more, but most YouTube channels make money in other ways - via sponsorships, merchandizing etc.

If Trooper put out a weekly video or a video every few days showing how he eats when he is on the strip, I would believe that we're only getting a small glimpse of his life. But, he puts out a daily vlog and he goes to the strip every single day.

Plus, his videos don't show anything interesting or unique so it's not like he had too much quality content to squeeze in his meals. He shows every coffee that he drinks (even at home) so we can safely conclude that he's showing the majority of his meals.

Additionally, he's always complaining how he hasn't eaten anything all day so he clearly doesn't eat a proper breakfast at home before going to the strip. He spend the whole day at the strip. Are you telling me that he gets home at 2am after losing at poker and gets to cutting veggies for his healthy salad? LOL!

Even if he ate salads at home and spent 2 hours at the gym (he does neither), he would still have an unhealthy lifestyle with daily consumption of burgers, pizza, and hot dogs, which explains why he looks and is fat.

At first, I thought his rant was going to be about how people didn't understand the whole situation on why he welshed on the PokerKraut bet and killed that friendship by showing up so late for the weigh in, never apologizing, and then blaming PokerKraut.

But when he started blabbing about his diet it only reinforced how bad his diet really is. If people thinking that he eats bad is on his mind and he cares so much about it (which he does if he addresses it in his vlog repeatedly), then why doesn't he point the camera at his supposed healthy home meals once in a blue moon. Or do a montage of himself at the gym like Neeme did?

Why? Because there is no footage of that because it didn't happen!

On a positive note, props to Trooper for linking to BikeKing's vlog and commenting on his video in the YouTube comments. It's nice that Trooper finally sees that it helps to have friends in poker vlogging and in Vegas.

I genuinely like Trooper and want him to succeed. Like another 2p2 put it, we watch Trooper because he is good at editing, seems like a nice guy and taps into a little bit of all of our degen sides.

The only problem I have with Trooper (and people in general) is when he complains about something but then put no effort into fixing it. Preferring a common problem than an uncommon solution. If Trooper isn't going to be serious about actually working out and eating healthy, then why bring it up in the vlog consistently?

I did the coupon run for both books as well last year (https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/s...3&postcount=30). But wow, had no idea about selling the chips thing. That is some true hardcore degen level grinding lol.

Yes he really does. Also makes no effort to improve.

Wow trooper giving a proper shoutout to BK.

If only there were 100s of us ITT saying he should be doing this with other vloggers a year or 2 ago he'd probably be alot better off

Just started watching the vlogs, love it.

HJ raises to $8, SB 3-bets to $25, Trooper calls with AA in the BB. Interesting.

Who has time to spend two hours at the gym that's not in college or has and semblance of a life....... ohh wait, we are talking about trooper here. Touche'

At least min raise to $50, you're almost always getting two callers there. What happened in the rest of the hand? I'm assuming he's good in late position with AA there.

What’s his point? That he eats pizza and burgers 3 or 4 days a week instead of 7 days a week?

Is there anybody that thinks he doesn’t eat those foods often? What’s next? Is he going to complain about people saying he drinks coffee all the time?

I don’t even think it’s a big deal. It’s his body and a lot of people have horrible diets. There are plenty of other types of junk food that I don’t think he eats often because I don’t see him eating them in the vlog, so with his reasoning his diet could be healthier than we think, but it could also be much worse. So maybe he is eating salad all the time at home, or maybe he is constantly eating chips, cookies, candy, cupcakes, etc.

I thought it was interesting that he was still stung by the criticism of his diet.

Sorry to pile on, but remember how back in the day he would go off on people during Mail-Time who would send him size XL t-shirts?

...you never know what the future may hold

Maybe he is a good player, he is just playing the wrong people/using it against the wrong people. He needs to play 2-5 or higher. FPS doesn't work very well at 1-2.

Maybe he's just happy there's guy out there doing worse than him now. Or maybe he started to help other vloggers because he thinks they're on the rise like Neeme and can help him later, and he's in panic mode trying anything he can to save his slowly dying channel. Or maybe he's just being nicer and opening up more because his whole personality changed since he started interacting with fans selling hats and getting more positive feedback?

I was thinking the other day about all the small startup poker vlogs out there and how much most of them suck, but a lot of them are still better than Trooper's vlog. If Trooper had just started vlogging today for the first time no one would watch his vlogs. He would have less than 200 subscribers. It would be one of those vlogs you watch once, think it's not good, and never watch again. His main advantage was being first in the market (after some starter vlogs by Pure Aggression). And good b-roll of Vegas.

If you look at him standing next to people he is a normal size (bit chubby). He probably has loose skin or flab from when he was much heavier. Seems to store fat more than other people in his face/chin. So even if he lost weight he might not look thin. I think they call it "Skinny Fat".

Trooper should go to a local Vegas small coffee shop and ask them to sponsor him. Dirt Dog too. He brought Dirt Dog so many customers they sought him out to thank him. Bet they didn't give him any money though. Hopefully they at least give him free food.

He always tries to play tricky.

Goofy? Why? Because of the fauxhawk or "sun's out, guns out"? Confidence man. That's why he's winning.

Similar to the lack of Andrew Neeme comments on here. The less we talk about you the better you are doing. (Hear that Mr. Bill? ) Doug Polk is smart, funny, a good speaker, etc. Love him. Maybe forgive Dnegs for the rake comments--he's just an employee working for his employer. Now let's go back to talking about the trainwrecks.

He only takes the first bite for the camera and throws the rest away.

Welcome to the addiction.

I wonder if this thread is going to blow up even more now that the American Poker Awards advertised poker vlogs and Neeme. Neeme still has 81k subscribers.