Interesting that the plan was to c/r the river after villain checked the turn and the board had low cards. I wonder how often this villain bets the river with air. Many 1-2 players just check it down when they miss so a c/r will target the part of their range that hits the river. I also wonder if this villain folds a weaker jack there. But a weaker jack raises PF less often so when he hits the jack it's often AJ or KJ a high percentage of the time.

He obviously thought this villain was going to play very aggressively based on the info he had.

If I have this right he doesn't believe in talking about hands. He thinks the person telling the story about a hand is only giving about 10% of the information. He elaborated a little on that in an interview he did. As a result, he might think the posters here are in a really poor position to criticize his play on this particular hand.

https://youtu.be/LwMIAwrIeuY

finger banging Mary Jane

I can never remember how to embed a youtube video here.

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[youtube]LwMIAwrIeuY[/youtube]

ah, just the last part in youtube quotes. Thanks.

That's just ******ed the avg poster in this thread plays this game at a higher level.

^^^ sometimes Steve is being reasonable and measured sometimes he comes off as an apologist - this leans more toward the latter.

I know I come across that way a lot. Trooper seems like a decent guy and idk maybe I'm just too nice sometimes.

I wasn't saying what my opinion was of the hand history stuff though. I was mostly repeating what I've seen him say before. I think posting about hands can help a lot and I notice a lot of the best thinkers on the live low-stakes NL forum on 2+2 tend to be the people who participate there the most.

Here is an interview where he shares his opinion of hand histories and I know I've seen him repeat that opinion on the forum:

http://cardplayerlifestyle.com/poker...ooper97-watts/

But that's my exact point Steve - not that you were making an opinion on the hand, but that we are making excuses for his excuses now.

"He doesn't think people online know what they are talking about because of xyz" is an excuse for not discussing hand histories but we shouldn't make it out as a good decision.

I may be reading between the lines and that wasn't your intention at all.

trooper just tore all of you degenerates a new ass hole

We've both (Steve and I) been watching Trooper's videos for a long time now and in my opinion his biggest flaw at the poker tables has been an inability or an unwillingness to make adjustments.

Trooper loves to say that individual sessions are not played in a vacuum and it's one long session played out over time. Yet he telling us about hands that are played: too passively/bet sizing is off/playing too wide a range amongst other flaws. At the end of the video 7/10 times the last year he post a loss while telling the viewers how easy the table was and how he should have crushed the game but XYZ happened. Also the amount loss in the losses seem to double and triple the amount won many times - I've never personally known or heard of a long term winning player who repeatedly has those patterns in their results so I can't expect the Trooper to win long term at 1/2-1/3 and move up.


At what point is he going to make adjustments to prevent xyz from happening?

That has been bugging me about his vlogs/poker sessions since last year. He seems unable or reluctant to make the adjustments needed for success.

In a way this circles back to my post a few days ago about wj94. Proven winning player (at about double my
Winrate) sees obvious flaws even with limited information and have been willing to make time to share their knowledge and help Trooper improve his game and they go ignored like a timeshare salesman on a mid-tier casino floor

Yea, he makes the videos for the fishes.

Troop has turned into a straight hater. 2+2 spent all this time promoting him and now he just h8ing.

Ok just put vlog on pause after first 34 seconds.. Brilliant beginning .. The song, the new camera, prison imagery, the mountains.

Ok I'll go back to watching..

Hey Trooper you dont have 2 play poker every day. maybe just once a week or so
and take the money u save and get a place.

now officially scared to watch the new blog in case I get Rick-rolled I'm a graphic scene from "OZ"...

Trooper isn't homeless bro, have you watched the videos??

This is something we (and hopefully everyone) most certainly can agree on. Stop playing for 2-3 weeks and take those buy ins and put them toward a deposit and moving cost.

It's been nearly 2 years at Desert Manor and you're a grown man, if you don't leave soon what was called "temporary" will soon be literally where you live. I'm not saying this to bash his living situation it's just human nature that if you stay somewhere long enough you will adapt to it's shortcomings and rationalize the positives (it's cheap, centrally located, no long term commitment) as good reasons to continue to stay.

This really should of been done a year ago but it's understandable that delays/changes in plans happen. However, for his own good and quality of life Trooper really needs to move on out of Desert Manor and into a legitimate apartment that is up to the standard he deserves.

You find yourself in DM this time next year and you're going to start to see yourself settling down and dipping to the quality of your housing/neighborhood and that's something no one wants to see.

Woahhh tough love coming from Natamus now.. You been hanging out with Surf at the hustler..

Jay Kay.. Don't bash me over the head Natamus.

Surf stays anon at the hustler so I won't 3 bet his face off and check raise him to death

Seriously tho everything I wrote I'd tell a friend. I've been a supporter of Troopers from pateron to Starbucks cards and thumbs up on YouTube and telling my friends about the ****s so they can do it too. I used Trooper10 on blind squirrel.

The frustration I'm feeling/expressing is the lack of seeing progress and making adjustments when needed both at the table and off. I'm not mad at him but it's pretty obvious he needs to make some changes and adjustments which like I said a couple days ago "affecting changing in your life is easier said than done" but he you gotta take steps.

Something is not quite right. He seems to be very frustrated and angry. Half of this last video is a rant defending his actions.

This isn't variance. This is something else.


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i tend to agree with the AQ hand, but in the end, we all play poker differently, and i think we've all taken Tim's line before, which isn't entirely horrid if... the v was much deeper, and the stakes were higher. like 5/10.

Tim says he doesnt watch these postings anymore, but I hope for his own growth he doesnt shut this all out as negative trolling.

Long enough to know that his supporters like yourself are doing him a major dis-service.


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I think the title of this vlog tells you everything you need to know.. Oh and he is looking for new apartment at 2:13 minutes