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Originally Posted by Alex Trebek's Cat
But last year there was a guy in Trooper's YouTube comments seriously wanting to give him $10,000 to enter the WSOP Main Event. I don't know if the guy had some dementia or what. But it's clear Trooper has some very rich fans who blow a lot of money in Vegas and are willing to give Trooper some of that money instead. So he might have a benefactor giving him $$$$.
I always assumed these kind of stunts were a sort of reverse troll. For instance you're a billionaire and the 10k is meaningless to you, but you know it means a lot to someone else. So you give it to them just to watch them fail where someone else would succeed, to prove the person is a failure even when given every opportunity in the world.
Like I remember the Howard Stern show would donate 10k or something to a homeless man for lulz because they knew he'd blow it. Sure enough homeless dude buys an 8k drum set and keeps it in the alley where he sleeps, a 1k leather jacket, and blows the rest on hookers.