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Most high stakes poker players are either backed or else they are swapping pieces with a stable of other pros. It's not just through selling action online to the public

Don't tell anyone, but tournament poker is a team sport.

are you Rampage Ethan's marketing agent?
never seen anyone defend a bad losing poker player on here this much this consistently since ELD's alter ego Bob or whatever it was

This is truly a bizarre take, given that less than 1% of my posts are about him. But yes I joined two plus two forum before Ethan was even of legal gambling age just so I could defend his honor in the future when haters would attack him after his subsequent rise to fame and fall from grace.

It's just classic tall poppy syndrome. I happen to know what it's like to get to a position where you can sustain losses for long periods and still not be hurting. I'm not defending his game or his play whatsoever, I happen to think hes a the total luckbox. But I'll still lay good odds that even after his recent downturn in results he's still way more comfortable financially than 99.9% of the people in this thread.

Rampage has plenty of income streams and is still up beaucoup dollars.

ELD has a small loss of $76 but is well on his way to Diamond tier which will keep ELD from becoming homeless next year and the kiosk was very genereous awarding ELD 2000 tier points.

Rampage has so much liquid cash he wanted to bankroll loan shark operations but ended up getting scammed by a fake loan shark lol. I’m also sure his punts on stream gets him juicy live private game action.

Angle and iwasbanned are very much right. Rampage will never have to worry about money until the FBI/DOJ decide to go after the app games and the legal bills start rolling in.

Think Blue reports on the Dodgers while sitting on his porch and taking a nap in the afternoon prior to the game and the other news reports on a riot in Los Angeles after the Dodgers win.

doesn't mean he's a good player. he just binked some on an early sun run and is riding that.
nearly every video over the last 24 months has been "all I do is lose, woe is me, maybe I should quit, I am starting to lose my mind, I dare you to bet on me at WSOP, how much more can I take..." and then he's on live streams as the biggest loser that backs that up.

every time I or someone else says something like "Rampage extending his million+ dollar downswing" there are responses like "the stakes were too low he was bored LOL" or "he's so rich he doesn't care" etc.
Ethan Rampage is not Alan Keating. he does not have an infinite supply of money. is he even 30 years old? he's burning through money like it's going out of style. whether or not he has a nest egg that can endure a million dollar loss each year, he continues to show he's a bad poker pro surviving on outside marketing crap and ventures like illegal gambling sites. whatever, I guess that means he is successful.

but every time he's on screen live or vlog it's him punting and playing poorly, looking honestly completely dejected, followed by a pity party

is he financially wealthier than me? no doubt. I'm not a poker pro. I have a comfortable life and a wife and kids and I contribute to society.

Good post i think, and also we arent debating if Rampage is more financially wealthy than posters in this thread. Very low percentage of players even in the poker industry have so much money or so heavy income streams they can burn through million dollar+ losing years like Rampage does.

I was referencing angles claim that Rampage is wealthier than 99.9% of 2+2ers and banned reiterated that he has beaucoup dollars.

for the record, wanted to add; my wife and I have zero debt

other than a modest mortgage for our home we can afford

Yeah, was onboard with that so my comment wasnt aiming at you in particular even though i quoted your post. Sorry if i was unclear there,my mistake.

anyway... Boski is a mid-level tournament crusher with a seemingly great circle of friends and he puts out great content

DePaulo is a total degen who does a lot of punting but sometimes does well and is always entertaining (or was before his dumb wsop.com sellout)

Mariano is a total cash game crusher who went from 1/2 to successful in the nosebleeds in just a few years. honestly haven't watched him much lately because not too interesting.

Rampage is a kid who put out a vlog from 1/2 and 2/5 every other day doing well, then binked a fake WSOP during covid, now puts out 1-2 vlogs per month that are all either predictable pity parties or "to all the haters". he belongs in the Train Wreck Vloggers section. that's all I'm saying.

no worries, just tying my thoughts together.

I'll have a TR next week getting tens of viewers and I do not expect to punt off 1700 BB in one session

Who was it here that claimed hes a good player? I specifically stated I think he's just a luckbox.

The point I was making was that he's not hurting financially, despite what it might appear from his recent results. I mean it is possible, but he would literally be the biggest idiot in the world if that were the case. People that get to his financial position don't expose themselves to risking it all. If anything they cushion themselves from any possibility of jeopardy. They have people around them whose job it is to ensure that they don't go backwards.

If he appears to be struggling that's because it's in his interest to project that storyline for the drama and the views. That's not to say he wouldn't much prefer to be winning than losing. For sure his recent losses must still sting, but whatever he's losing is money he can well afford to lose. If he publicly disclosed what % of his action he actually has it would lessen the value of his brand significantly as many people wouldn't want to watch and follow him anymore.

Seems like ED is trying to rebrand a bit as a travel/lifestyle blogger. I think that is a great move. In my opinion, some of his best content is centered around his hotel/ABnB and food reviews. Plus, he already has well over 5k subscribers, which I would imagine is close to maxing out the audience for pure poker content. I think if he made his channel more like the Coolist (https://www.youtube.com/@Coolist) he could continue to grow his brand while making fresh content.

The other point I was trying to make was that there would probably only be a handful of high stakes tournament pros who have 100% of their own action, especially if they are playing a full calendar of high buy-in events. The vast majority are being staked in one way or another, or they swap action with a tonne of other players. Lone wolves in the high stakes poker world are a rare breed indeed

And the ones that do have 100% of their own action would be so independently wealthy that the results literally don't matter to them financially. Poker is so volatile that anyone with less than an 8 figure roll could go broke with one or two bad years of results.

Its crazy the amount of Christina's money that Trooper has dumped into this. I mean unless they think they are going to be selling commercial quantities of brittle and pralines the whole thing is just plain bonkers. To cover costs and then make a decent profit they are going to be needing to sell thousands of units per week, week after week.

Where are all these customers going to be coming from? Local farmers markets? Viewers of the vlog? Word of mouth? Ok that's enough to sell thousands of units in a year or maybe even in a really good month, but not week in week out. Would love to know what marketing strategies they have other than just making farmers market vlogs and doing live streams in their kitchen for a handfull of viewers.

I think they're banking on the 99% obesity rate of their viewers to order a **** ton of candy.

Have you seen the people at trooper thursday? Diesel was the fittest one there!

Seeing him dump 1.4 Kilos of sugar into that bowl is a good selling point, and that's before who knows how much corn syrup.

I'm not saying he's in financial ruin.
he projects that, and I comment on his "updates" in this Poker Vlogger Train Wrecks thread

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Think Blue Poker's challenge of turning $1,000 into a bankroll...

Does he have more money but choosing to start with $1,000 for the sake of a challenge or is that just his entire bankroll and he has no choice?