Why Rampage Should QUIT Poker

Rampage is not transparent. He has ran illegally raked cash games on the X-poker with Wolfgang near the start of his vlogging. He started another illegally raked app game(not to mention breaking terms of service) on club GG(SplashSquad). Fleecing his audience in high raked games which is likely impart why he can take shots at high stakes. The poker community should not support vloggers who normalize high raked illegal app games.

"Your worst enemy at the poker table is yourself." Stu Ungar

You lost any credibility when you said "There is a real human honesty about him that you find quite endearing"... would you say the same thing about Nic Virtucci? About Eric Lindgrin? About Chino Rheem? These are all scheisters. Criminals, thieves, scam artists never look like criminals, thieves, or scam artists or they would not be successful at it. I like Rampage's videos but I do not for one second believe he is truthful, forthcoming and transparent, honest, and honorable... he is now and has scamed a lot of people while being a part of sketchy poker sites. He is basically an Asian Chris Fergussen and ought to be treated as such. Poker should have a level of ethcis and intergrity, Rampage crosses way over that line knowingly preying upon people for his own financial gains... MAriano and Wolfgang are likely the same. You may like him in a "charisma" sense but he is just acting while stealing people's money not by playing poker but by selling lies and deception

I agree, we can name 500 players that were on top of the poker world, that went broke. He even acknowledges he isnt interested in playing the low risk lower stakes, even though his ROI is significantly better at low stakes. Train wreck coming.

Brad Owen is a prime example of a successful poker player.

Today's era of social media poker finds itself full of young wannabes using the poker platform as their quest for clout, influence and fame. This generation are obsessed and addicted in their chase for glorified social media / Youtubers fame, always looking for the perfect content hoping to hit algorithmic success. Few years from now, most of the people seen on Hustler and other poker streams will be broke and back to being irrelevant. They are not doing anything for the game of poker but giving its viewers a false sense of reality. Also, let's not overlook the fact that most of these poker TV shows are all just advertising for sites like GGpoker, etc.

I am curious what stakes do you play live poker ?

I went from .05/.10 stakes 2003 to four table heads up 3/6 in 2007. Brian cabby tore me a new one when I moved to 5/10. Never have more than 5% of your role on the table. Always move down when you get to 90%. Thankfully I graduated those stakes in 2008 and cashed out before Black Friday. Used the money to buy my first house in AZ when the market was down. You have to go through a proper amount of hands to experience the true reality of variance. You cannot move up until you do as you may think you are better than you are. When taking shots you need to know and or question if your 3 bet preflop or all in on the turn was the right move despite the result, and have the hand history to tell yourself next time what to do despite the last result. This guys at his current pace is going the way of isildurr. Maybe he is making the money up elsewhere but time does not take punts lightly.

He doesn't need to quit, but he does need to go on a vacation for a few weeks and get his mind cleared out.

The question is, will Rampage be playing Hustlers upcoming million game series? I think he will.

Hanlon's razor: Never attribute it to malice, if it's adequately explained by stupidity.

If he was running illegal games is there evidence and where are the authorities

the game needs more punters...

In my opinion Rampage has a good understanding of poker but it’s very limited and he tends to overuse certain staratagies. I think this downswing has just begun judging by what he says and does and has a lot more down side. He also says let’s gamble a lot which is weird even tho it’s true you don’t hear that from most players . If he dosent take a long break I don’t see this whole scenario ending good for him . He needs a solid 6konths and he needs to study and reinvent his whole game .plus that good run he has past few years put a chip on his shoulder and that is hard to shake off he probably can’t even believe what’s going on right now that’s what happens when your confidence grows that much. I also don’t think he ever studies the game on a deep level to where he can keep developing and using new strategies . I don’t see this ending well either way for sone reason even tho I’m rooting for him bcuz he is one of the kindest and most chill dudes

I disagree with the downswing argument. If you are a professional you always gotta have the +EV mindset, the only way to get out of the hole is increase volume and study more. If you can’t have that mindset just go flip the burgers cause poker isn’t for you, I had a couple 100k downs and the only way I got back from it is improving my mindset my game and increasing volume, taking a lot of time off like a pussy is just gonna destroy your game.

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Agree. Greed and chasing the loss = Gambling problem, should seek help. Quit for life, not few months or few years.

Maybe he's not as good as you as at poker but he's definitely a better vlogger :)

I want my poker skills to eventually pay for law school. Sounds odd on the surface but that's what I'm aiming at. Poker has paid bills over the last couple years when I was struggling, there's no reason after some more financially stability that it couldn't propel me into a more productive role in society.

Promotion of Poker or any other gambling for any reason is by nature misleading but poker players WANT to be mislead. Its a fine game but gambling for a living is a guaranteed ticket to spiritual hell. Gambling is a form of entertainment at best and an effort to escape the obligation of a productive life at worst. The majority of poker players are losing players who are also losers in life and are coping through poker.