12 hours. In for 500 (1 buy-in) out 3565 (down a little from the pic which was around 3900).

Had another 11-hour session in for 500 out 2835.

that win is beyond anything i can comprehend. i don't think where I play there are that many chips in play at my table for 12 hours lol. Well done!

I would say at least half the drivers I had in Vegas this summer said they had been doing it at least a year.

As a former driver, I agree that it is not as great as it is cracked up to be.

FYP

This is 100% true and here's why: Trooper plays every single day (pretty often) but he doesn't do any studying, get coaching, or ever really sit down and analyze his play or his stats.

The only thing he does is think back on his play and JUSTIFY his moves with random, illogical theories to make himself feel better by explaining everything as a bad beat where he knew exactly what was going on. He is actually very results oriented where his analysis always finds a way to justify why his results are pure bad beats.

So what ends up happening by justifying the bad beats is that Trooper re-enforces bad decision making on the daily and over time, his poker decision making is getting worse and worse as he cements bad habits and never fixes any mistakes because in his mind, he NEVER makes any mistakes.

So you have an average player (Trooper 3 years ago) slowly cement tons of bad poker habits and never fix a leak because he fails to identify them and he is just getting worse and worse as time goes on.

The results prove it too. Most poker players gets better to a degree by seeing lots of hands play out, fixing leaks, and then analyzing their play to re-enforce the positive and eliminate the negative. Trooper does the exact opposite!

He re-enforces the negative (since it's all just bad beats) and doesn't analyze the positive (since he just figures it's all his great reads.)

That's why he is actually a worse player from 3 years ago.

Same thing happens at my former workplace. We used to train new hires the basics and then let them go off and do the work to learn the intermediate and advanced stuff. There was no monitoring of their progress or checking-in to see that they are doing the process correctly 3/6/12 months down the road. The hires end up coasting by on sub-par work unless they make a MAJOR mistake and crap hits the fan. It's actually a pretty common problem in lots of bad work environments.

You gotta admit, that dog can dance!

Trooper ignores everything that he doesn't like or that upsets him. It's his defense mechanism. That is why he never develops positively or grows in poker or in his life. When something bad happens, he just ignores it and moves on to something else instead of identifying the problem and fixing it.

His approach to poker (no studying, analysis, or coaching) is his approach to life. He does stuff till things get bad and then starts doing something else without fixing anything and runs into the same mistakes. So he stops that and starts something else.

Look at the guy. Other than getting a vlog to 30K subs in 3+years, what has he accomplished in his entire life?

By the way Boski, shortly before watching the boski/manz podcast, I stumbled on an interesting Youtube video about French bathing habits from King Louis XIV/XV at Versailles. I am of the belief your stinky Frenchman at the table may not have been lying and did actually take a bath. There was actually something called a "dry bath", which didn't work obviously, used back in the days of Louis XIV and XV. In any case, it's an interesting documentary on French bathing habits from centuries ago......

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWYIgqMEE2o

I'm going to go with...the last poker one?

This is some funny ish. You guys are really good playing off each other. Very entertaining.

jesus manz and boski was HI-larious. they could definitely do a thing.

Very nice!

The Odd Couple 2017.

Boski as Felix and Manz playing the part of Oscar..it even looks like Manz has a cigar in his hand..

yeah they definitely should do more live vlogs but even better would be more escapades through Vegas. Too bad the bowling wasnt vlogged when Manz was in town. Manz with the out-there personality and Boski with the dry sarcasm.

Does Neeme get paid to put out YouTube vids?

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If you don't think Trooper LOVES sporting his own gear on the strip (regardless of potential $$$) then you don't know Trooper.

Just face it, despite what many would consider a plethora of faults, Trooper, in his own mind is 9-highing like a boss through life.

I'd put in two (3?) ****ing bucks for the chance to setmine, even in these circumstances.

LATB livestream tonight just mentioned there would be a vloggers/streamers week towards the end of October. They mentioned Andrew Neeme, Brad Owen, Jaime Staples, and Trooper would be playing.

I heard on Live at the Bike today ......

Andrew, Brad and Trooper are coming to play at LATB in October (they announced the date, but I missed it).

This could be redemption for the Trooper. Maybe I will stop auto-downvoting his videos.

Trooper was offered an appearance fee last time and still didn't do it. I wonder what it took for him to agree to it this time.

Edit. It would be better with Boski in it.

sheesh, are you super laggy. lucky or what?

btw, nice Job!

interested in seeing how trooper really plays!