When you show up in person to Trooper Thursday on Mar 29 10:30pm slot time. I'll bring the tape measure.

If I didn't know the back story to what you two were talking about, I would say you are in the wrong forum. You must be looking for casual encounters on Craigslist.

I'm also DTF.

In Trooper's latest vlog, he has maniac at the table who is popping it to $35 preflop 75% of the time in a 1/2nl game. Trooper changes seats to be on the maniac's RIGHT (2 seats to his right to be exact) and then makes a huge deal that most people would want to move to the maniac's left and are stupid for doing so.

Trooper's logic is that everyone at the table is adjusting to maniac's play preflop so everyone limps before maniac acts and then they react preflop to maniac's $35 preflop raise. So Trooper wants to see everyone react to maniac before he has to make a decision preflop for more than $2.

Thoughts? Is Trooper making the correct seat change or is he completely forgetting that there is postflop play? Trooper was sitting on a $1000+ stack btw. There was over $3000+ on the table so assuming there were other large stacks.

PM sent.

Troop has been arrested.

Does anyone have his booking pic that would show his height?

If he was raising 100% of hands I see his logic...

The bit I found funny was at the end he says the guy was punting several buyins so everyone thought he was a donkey

How many times has trooper reported 4 figure losses at 1/2 ?

Trooper is 100% right about sitting to the right of the crazy raiser who raises huge every hand. That's because the crazy has effectively turned himself into the de facto big blind before the flop every hand. And what does that make the guy to his immediate left? Answer: The player to the immediate left is UTG.

There is a thread in the NVG forum about the late Paul "Quack Quack" Magriel who was the GOAT backgammon player and inventor of Dan Harrington's "M" stack concept. One of the posters in that thread said something along the lines of that Magriel told him that if he automatically folded his hand from UTG without looking, he'd save a lot in the long run.

Trooper is right about sitting to the immediate right. He must have read one of the major NLH books that talked about this. Unfortunately, I can't remember which book.

I think that he is right given the description that he gave, and that most pots he is going to come into will be him 3 betting to 100+. Since he was trying to isolate the whale, he wanted to see what everyone did after him so he could either make a move or fold.

Troop has the unpublished manuscript on his apartment's floor.

Trooper tries to shoot back at Boski. Oops I am not supposed to say other peoples names according to Trooper.

Shows the news clip again. lol

I would do the same as Troop and sit on the maniac's right to avoid being caught in the middle of maniac's raise and a reraise from another player.

Trooper quit whining about trolls and people taking shots at you. Just stop mentioning it because people watching your vlog do not want to hear about it.

Who wouldn't wanna see a Trooper v. Boski heads up match? The banter would be classic.

He also mentioned a traitor who is now dead to him... PokerKraut maybe?

Boski Superior physically and intellectually. Wouldn’t be a fair match.

As was already mentioned, to the right of the constant pre-flop raiser is correct because of info gained from other players' decisions. Almost as important was the fact that Trooper stated that the "maniac" would fold to big three bets pre.

Taken together, the situation allows for buying $70-$140 pots pre when having big hands. Also, if so inclined one could choose spots to bluff 3 bet to buy those pots pre. Add to all this the fact that you can call the multi-way $35 dollar bets with draw heavy hands, if you catch...value town is waiting only a seat or two to your left!

If Boski would talk in something besides monotone it might be mildly entertaining.


I know Trooper has his haters, but he's right, Boski and kraut taking shots at him is just jealousy and it's childish but makes them feel good about themselves.

Together they have a little better than half the subscribers that Trooper has and yet Neeme has managed to get so many more than all three combined in short order.

Maybe a lesson to be learned here, you'd never see Andrew acting like that.

I know I saw one of troopers unemployed fans on twitter calling Boski's girls ugly. Seeing Trooper is not getting ladies of any sort I found this to be comical. Not to mention Boski's Hendon stats are crushing compared to Troooper so If I was Tim I would tend to keep quiet since he is low man on the totem pole.

Please inform us all what exactly Boski and PK have to be jealous of when it comes to Trooper. I cant think of one single thing, and that includes subscribers.

This diet he's on has failure written all over it. First off, getting down to a better weight and staying there requires PERMANENT lifestyle changes. For instance, probably about 15 years ago I stopped drinking all soft drinks (except coke in my jack and cokes, which I rarely have). THAT is a change. Not some diet that lasts one or two months.

You dont need any fancy type of diet to get to the weight where you should be.....eat reasonable portions ie dont pig out, dont eat food that is obviously bad for you ie fast food, and exercise. Why people over complicate this is beyond me....

Seems like Trooper has re-written the poker strategy. Most poker books say otherwise, here are just a couple:

Strategic considerations will frequently dictate a subsequent move. Most classically, you may want to sit to the immediate left of the table maniac, the player who is pushing the action, so that you have a positional advantage over him as often as possible.

Position is critical. Sit immediately left of the maniac if you can, but never sit on the immediate right. Play tight in an early position and aggressive or tight-aggressive in a late one

Brad was involved with Boski when they poked fun at him. Is Brad jealous too?

Trooper spent 5 minutes talking about other vloggers while at the same time he tried to act like he was just going to quickly ignore him. And he also insulted them a few times and tried to imply that he is better than those people. For someone that gets so hurt by criticism he sure likes to dish it out.

Edit: One thing Trooper has right is you sit to the right of the maniac. You already know what he is going to do whether you sit to his left or his right. Sitting to his right gives you info on what the others will do too.

If you're on the maniac's right you leave yourself open to way more check/bet - calling the maniac. If you're playing a conservative style you're going to fold off more hands than you see to the river with the maniac getting the last decision. The maniac on your left always has the advantage post flop when they're acting after you because they're going to c-bet TF outta you, making you play catch-up on draw heavy type hands. The correct play is to be left of the maniac and make him call you since you have position. Post flop. When you're on his right the maniac is rarely going to respect your range. If you're left of them you will lose less on your drawing hands over time and when you really have it, you're going to get max value out of raising him with the best hand.

You never wanna be in a position where you're playing drawing hands with a maniac on your left.

If you've played with a "maniac" you should know Trooper is in the best seat sitting to the right.
Just think about it, if you are next to act, you can't see how the rest of the table reacts. You end up being forced to tighten your starting hand range to keep the maniac from running you into a player that has a "real" hand. Knowing what everyone else is going to do preflop more than makes up for being out of position to the maniac postflop. Being to the right makes it easier to squeeze or isolate the maniac too.

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Trooper feeling like superman after 12 hours of no carbs
I think the one thing we all agree on is that trooper is no genius..

If he doesn't find drunk fish he can't win