Rampage's problem is that he developed a bad habit early on and that's not giving up on pots and thinking everyone is scared to gamble. He punts off huge money and when it was smaller stakes it worked cause business people, vacationers, rich kids and others play scared. They couldn't stomach losing $5k on a single hand and didn't have enough game knowledge to know if the huge river bet/jam makes sense or not so they'd often fold the better hand. You go back and watch his lower stakes blogs he got a lot of players to fold to a big river bet and he thinks that works against high stakes players and it just doesn't. Now he's playing against people with as much or more game knowledge than him, have way more money and aren't scared to gamble it. It makes the "put him to the test" stuff a lot less likely to work. He had a period where he did well at those stakes and seemed to get away from those bad habits but now it's back in full force and he's just not going to succeed at the high stakes if he doesn't completely fix that part of his game.
You could put all of Rampage's assets in a pile, and there'd be guys on those streams who have three or four more ZEROES, just in their poker bankroll, and they're not afraid to lose it. You're not going to bluff them off a pot more than once.
@@gregoryschmidt1233 Exactly. These aren't vacationers, businessmen, sons of millionaires and the other kinds of people Rampage was used to bluffing against that would almost always fold. They had very little game knowledge to know when a bluff does or doesn't make sense and those kinds of people were scared to lose $5k to a bad call so they'd just auto-fold. Rampage still has that terrible habit and it doesn't work whatsoever against these high stakes guys.
whats sick is that he isnt even getting cold decked, just making awful decisions compound bad play on top of cooler after cooler and thats how you go broke
The closest comparison I can draw for Rampage is Jamie Gold, on a bit smaller scale. The guy arguably has some skills. Got lucky to win the biggest (wsop) tournament of his life and thought he was on top of the world. Remember seeing Jamie quickly jumped onto high stake pokers playing for millions with guys like Ivey, Negreanu and Doyle Brunson where he punted off his fortune? Where is Jamie Gold now? Last I saw him playing 5-10 at the Commerce. Rampage will likely follow suit.
What happens with Rampage is that he has only played poker for around a couple of years now and runs insanely well. I believe he is a good player, with no hate against the guy, but he is inexperienced in variance. Poker sometimes is a tricky game. Maybe you're playing terribly and end up winning a tournament or two. The game makes you think you are great, but in reality, you just won multiple flips in a tournament, and boom, you win. He is playing too high. Those nosebleed stakes are terrible for the bankroll, no matter how good you're. He played a very maniacal style; eventually, he would get hit. I hope he came back. He is talented and will be successful with hard work and dedication.
His play against the 84 hand was very good. A guy calling 84 in that spot is calling with 85 87 98 57 97 A9 etc. He folds all those hands so it was a plus EV play. It just so happened he was against 84.
A good player? What? Good because of his discipline? Pre flop hand selection? Ability to stay level headed to prevent tilt? He's on par with Nick airball. Rampage has always been a punter.
he ran multiple standard deviations above EV during his rapid ascent from 1/2 to HCL within like 2 years ... his downswing is only beginning if he is to return to EV
He’s clearly a good player but he has to learn how to deal with the bad side of variance because that ultimately is what makes or breaks a player. But this guy would crush lower level stakes and if he learns how to deal with tilt he could win at these levels as well.
What streams are you watching where you say he's clearly a good player? He is a punter. He's been a hunter his whole career. He's done better at tournaments because he can lay reg and go super high variance and he's won several off of the sheer volume of how many he has entered. And he has had some big nights on HCL stream. But that doesn't make him a good player. If I had a dollar every time I heard him say something along the lines of "I'm here to gamble" and then a call with some weak ass cards I would have enough money to play on these streams. He has no patience he has no discipline. He's just not a good poker player. I don't think he would actually crush the lower Stakes
He is an extremely extremely poor and undisciplined player compared to the stakes he plays or anything above 5/5 really and I say this as a fan of him and someone who thinks his content is great and that he seems as an amazing, honest and down to earth guy. But he is playing not SOMEWHAT above but WAY ABOVE the stakes as compared to his thinking of the game, that is just a fact and again sorry but you can see from all these clips its not really a run bad but punting.@@ryanhughes1101
Gambling addiction is a chemical reaction that Rampage Poker and Corey Eyring both seem to suffer from where betting feels just as good as actually winning. It can be very dangerous for gambling addicts if they are not aware of their condition and are not actively suppressing it when they play, especially if they are playing above their bankroll.
@@pugsnhogz its sad because corey is really talented at making videos. damn funny and seems like a good kid. unfortunately it also looks like hes becoming a degenerate gambler.
@@lucashood9265 that's like saying "I run a liquor store, I hope all these alcoholics keep drinking themselves near to death" pretty grim to say proudly out loud.
It's addiction and bad bankroll management. He needs to work on that. Otherwise the game won't be no longer fun. Tourney is the way to go, payless and win bigger. Better practices.
His donk aggression only worked so good at first because he ran like GOD now that the deck isnt hitting him in the face we are seeing how "good" of a player he is
@@dantrav1927 I like soto in general but yeah the personalities on HCL are so boring and too many accusing others of cheating and shit. Never hear that on the Lodge or TCH ones...
Greg is right. I fucking hate when someone announces a hand they don't have. If you're friends and do it while showing that's fine, but they didn't know Greg and he might have mucked his hand there.
have no respect for rampage or Mariano. Both these guys went from grinding 2/5 5/10 to 50/100 conveniently after they started shilling for the GG app for games that are raked and an absurd amount basically using there audience as an ATM. Also met both in person in Vegas last summer and both were total assholes. Mariano treated me like I was cancer when i was standing behind him in a cash out line after I told him how much I liked his vlogs. Rampage acted like a petulant child when I busted him in a WSOP event. Both had a moment of sun run but terrible play cant be overcome.
Yep.. and Rampage especially is very suspicious... look up his 160'000 wsop win... He plays in of his first online tournaments ever and gets the biggest sun run set up rigged win i have ever seen in my life.... i have played 1000's of tournaments and have never ran even near that well... He was completely gifted a wsop online win when he hardly knows what hes doing... I find it very weird how he can run better than i have ever seen anyone run in one of his first tournaments ever and run better than i ever have through thousands of tournaments Maybe his dad works for GG or something
I went through this couple months ago. I kept winning at $1/3. Running hot making +$300 each 7/10 sessions... I started to "tilt win" I was playing EVERY shit hand possible, bluffing and getting called, calling bad all-ins. Giving back all profit earned. I almost forgot about pre-flop ranges and sticking to solid poker.... It felt horrible, I had to change my strategy and remember to be humble in poker, variance will get you.
@@mattingly234ever you can play bad in any stake… Rampage is playing tilt-winner style, exactly what I said…. playing shit-hands, making bad bluffs, and calling bad all-ins. Your comparison is terrible
Not really Matt. Rampage was literally a 1-3 player 2 years ago. Good luck and scaring people off hands is what got him to where he is now. Now the variance is reversed and he’s still playing the same style he did at 1-3, thinking people are gonna be scared of his big bets, which clearly they aren’t at those stakes.
It's easy to pile on a so-called pro who starts losing massively, but Jesus, some of these plays would be bad from an amateur playing $1-3 NL. The K-10 offsuit hand was just horrendous. First off, it's a hand you really ought to just fold preflop. But on that river...you can't beat anything. Yes, you're getting almost 5-1 on your money, but so what? YOU CAN'T BEAT ANYTHING. Then there's the bankroll management. A good player doesn't risk more than 10% of his bankroll in a given session. Rampage by his own admission is risking 50-100%. It's literally impossible to win longterm playing this way, because even if you somehow manage to play perfectly, sooner than later you'll take a horrible beat or cooler.
two weeks ago he said he was broke and going back to 1/3 and here is shows up with wads to play. Who is backing him or is it all a hoax with fake chip stacks?
Rampage is reckless but to make matters worse, he is reckless with fans money!! he had 20% of himself in this cash game! what a disgrace! he needs to leave poker and get a 9-5 job!
He was good at 1/2 because he had a bigger bankroll than most of those players. But people on streams most likely triple or quadruple his bankroll. Like Airball. He's got money because his parents have millions so he's on daddy's money. He can play crazy because he can afford it.
The guy Greg is a whale and was being a little bitch. If he mucked, obv rampage would have game him the pot. Greg is a nit rolling fish that slows down the game A TON and miserable to watch
Rampage runs illegally raked cash games on club GG fleecing his audience in high rakeunsecure/unregulated app games. It is not unlikely this is where the majority of his money comes from. Unfortunately this is common practice in the vlogger community. It is pretty gross.
its very hard to win anything with >40% VPIP. I get that its a stream, but you can't force math. Also everyone there knows he is >40% VPIP and to adjust they call him down with all kinds of "weak" hands
Announcing a straight is pretty bush league by Rampage. Especially with Greg being so overweight, the added stress probably took a couple months off his life span 😂
Honestly after hitting the poker masters for 900k he's been off and running. The kid is better than a 1/2 player, he is a good player however, I just don't think he spent enough time in the 5/10 or 10/20 streets. Everybody at that HCL table has a bigger net worth, they can absorb the losses. He could play the 10/20 10k buyin max pain Mondays and try to build from there and not have this worry. Remember a million dollar downswing on HCL's big game on Fridays is just 10 buyins of 100k. So what he's down at those stakes is just a blip, just ask Airball who was just claiming he's down 8 million not too long ago and clearly he's changed his play it's affected him.
@@DSR505No chance. 1/3 is such an easy game to beat that even a bad player like Rampage would destroy it. I would put very big money on that. However, he isn't really good enough to account for how much he's risking.
@DSR505 He already destroyed his 1/3 go check his early vlogs. He also crushed 2/5 that's how he got invited to play on HCL. However he basically jumped from 2/5 to HCL and he binked two tourneys. He got a WSOP circuit ring and a few months later got the 900k score from the Poker Masters. Neither he or Mariano grinded 5/10 or 10/20 like Brad Owen or Andrew Neemee. That HCL game is soft as hell, Airball makes sure of it so I don't blame them for trying.
The rake he gets from splash squad, his illegal clubgg union club, allows his to comfortably donk off 1 million in a 4 month span. So technically his lemmings punted first. It's the punt/re-punt.
Combination or run good and sheer aggression plus he was playing less bad. People are folding to him way less than they used to and he isn't adjusting at all.
Why did you ever have it in the first place? I've always considered fans of his mentally deficient, on the count that you hype his cockiness when he can't even string together a coherent sentence while doing voice-over..
First of all the hand he was supposedly bluffing against the chunky lawyer type was him misreading his hand, go back and look at his face. Second, rampage got to move up so rapidly because youtube and merch sales allowed it, then he got lucky, he barely has 1 3 skills. And like airball, mass TV appearances give actual good players the reads they need to shred him.
Absolutely not. If you understand anything about ranges and can project out the type of hands the lawyer has there in that spot it was a super EV play. If he took that long to fold 84 he’s probably even folding A9 which makes it even a better play.
@@yoniker83Live game can be very soft and easy so I don’t doubt he can beat mid stake games. But put him with a table of decent reg not sure he would be profitable. And don’t think he can beat 50nl online.
Rampage goes to the same driving range I do and always see him pull up in his Tesla. I’ve said hi a few times, and often I’ve wanted to be like “dude, just quit and pivot to a golf channel or something. You’re known. Golf channels are big right now. You can make income as a RU-vidr doing something where you lose no money.” But then it’s not my place. It’s degenerate behavior he’ll have to figure out on his own.
@@AlexDuvall Yeah. He lives down the street. I won't say where, obviously. But we're both from MA. He's a really nice guy. And he's worked very hard. I'd hate to see him go busto or living on credit just to play poker. He made a video asking what kind of content people would like to see, and I told him "Golf!" Look at the explosion of golf channels recently. They're cheap to produce and the overhead is basically travel. Plus, he could still gamble on the course! Win/Win if he needs the rush.
I don’t care. You don’t snap call all-ins unless you have the nuts. Greg has bottom trips and Rampage is repping a set all the way through. Rampage is an ass for his salty chatter after. Him losing his net worth is his fault.
Sad to see this because he seems like a nice guy thats had rapid success and fame go to his head clouding his judgement. Its likely that WSOP braclet in that online event made him think that hes better than he really is. He got a massive boost to his bankroll and ran super hot when he took massive shots but it seems as if he didnt really think about the longrun. Hes quite clearly became horrible at bankroll management once he got a taste of easy big money and is clearly displaying signs of what likely is gambling addiction. Speaking as someone who have and know many with the same kind of mindset in regards to money in gambling situations. He should take a break to reset his mind from this destructive behaviour.
People will mistake this as running bad. But in reality he used to be running good and this is just the EV balancing out to how bad he has always played. He is a terrible player who just ran like GOD and decided to move up limits.😂
@@T-roc57 Ya but honestly thats just online being rigged... the site knows when you are playing too high of stakes and they know if they put you on a good stretch of run bad it will take most of your roll and then you can deposit again.... Im not even just being a complainer its just facts ive tried it a bunch of times and you always start running really poorly if you play too high of stakes for your roll
why would anyone take his action at this point? he's proven he doesnt have the understanding of gambling, personal and bankroll management or is the entire thing a hoax?
The best pro poker players know how to read the room, and read their opponent. Even watching this short clip compilation it is blatantly obvious that Greg is a loose-passive rec player, so I am not sure why Rampage felt the need to run a huge bluff against him on a board that barely changed...or failed to give him credit when he took the betting lead. I give the commentator a ton of respect for calling Rampage's play "punting", just calling it as he sees it.
Rampage is the guy that runs hot, makes a bunch, but he never seems to understand that everyone has seen his moves. He just keeps punting off when he isn't running hot. A 4 month cold streak isn't unusual. The difference is most folks slow down, or even reduce the stakes. Not Rampage, He just tries to bluff, and bluff.
I’m 100% convinced rampage has actually started playing differently from when he won WSOP online. He’s gotten so much looser and makes much looser calls IMO because he’s sponsored now and more well known and is afraid of being bluffed and blown off hands.
Although it was not kosher of Rampage to call out he had a straight, he did also immediately turn his hand over and start to put chips out to pay Greg. It probably would have been funnier if it were against a regular but I have no doubt in my mind that had Greg mucked his hand, Rampage would have given him the pot. I don't think it was that big of a deal. Especially after the guy uber-tanked after hitting running trips lol
I kind of feel bad, I 100 believe it is my fault that rampage and Mariano are on such a down swings. I frequently went to his meet up games and supported his Channel I really liked their content. Last fall. Lost my job and was in a really bad spot I asked both of them to stake me in a game and they both ignored me. A simple no would have been understandable they I put my juju on hem now look . As of today I lift the curse I feel really bad for him
Rampage is a POS. In a cash game he sold 5% of his 500k buy in excerpt everyone else bought in for 30k-50k. Which means Rampage had backers pay for his buy in and had 400k he never bought into pay just to dilute his backers.
3:05 rampage calls which is completely ok? Are you off your marbles? Greg just has a flush or a slow played 9 pretty much 99% of the time. This is a horrible horrible pay off. Greg is never betting this size with worse. The k9 payoff was horrible too
What Rampage wrote was the closest I've seen him come to actually saying what's wrong, but still can't say the words...compulsive gambler or just plain addict. Going over his hands and critiquing his play is only looking at the symptoms and unfortunately most in the comments I've seen in the past and even comments from other creators don't want to even say those words and keep encouraging him that it'll get better. It's really sad to witness.
His people around him have to pull him aside for a long talk. Time has told us that most of these stores end very bad. I've had people in my life who have decided to end it because of huge loses like this.
rampage is one of the lucky ones of the modern TV/internet era, chosen for his appeal to the masses and will reap the benefits of rigged online games to rebuild his bankroll from any number of sites, from the WSOP to GG Poker to any number of "silent" backers that will put him in the big games again faster than you can say "raise". If it wasnt for the WSOP, Poker Stars, GG Poker, Full Tilt and all the other scam sites, Negreanu would be living in the Siegel Suites off the Strip, asking for backers to the ME.
Alex, your vlog is just fantastik, hope you'll keep making them for a long time. If you do so, i'M sure by the end of 2024 you'll have at least 50,000 subscriver. Thanks for the good time, and very eager to see your next one.
I had commented on Rampage's channel that he needed a break after running so wickedly hot during his rise. He didn't listen and now he's actualizing the fate of being on "winning tilt" (It could be a thing). Last night he played well on HCL with a $278K win and his play was much better. Perhaps winners running hot should interview players who have run cold as a measure to moderate winners tilt prior to jumping back into a game. Navigating ego is challenging but to dismiss it is costly.
Why is it a snap call when Greg has trips? If Rampage had 9s full then people would say how its an easy fold because Greg had a diamond blocker to possible flush draw bluffs and it was a near double pot bet on river.
he needs to move down in stakes. Like 2- 5 and such...some may think that's crazy low...but he is just not that good for these games..and he needs to study more...ya know the same drill we all have gone through many times...but ego is a funny thing...especially at a young age....
When Rampage doesn’t bet the rivered straight he needed to adjust by realizing everyone is going to discount his aggression and therefore needs to not bluff.
Rampage literally relies upon other sources of income. And having the most ridiculous sun runs in tournaments. When it comes to big cash games against actually decent players he can’t profit huge because his plays aren’t smart enough and when the deck doesn’t run his way he doesn’t know how to play the players properly.
1:55 wow that check was absolutely horrible 😂. This dude is lost. Not even good at the game. He’s just extremely aggressive which will only work for so long. 3:05 horrible call 😂. 3:38 horrible call 😂. OK at this point I just gotta stop editing this bc there’s just way too many hands to laugh at. I’m done 😂
honestly starting to feel really bad for Rampage. The way he speaks is someone clearly who's gone from enjoying the game of poker to being addicted to the rush of winning. It sucks. He's only been playing for a few years and was only playing 1/3 games a couple years back. The luckbox locked him in and when the luck ran out he's starting to see the other side of it. Hope he recovers because I do think he's a good guy.
Eventually horrible misplaced over aggressive bad plays will catch up with you; especially when you display such bad play over and over for all to see then pick off The cheap bastard tipped dealer a single dollar chip once after a 20k pot 🤮🤮🤮 Zero tears
Not to mention Rampage wired a scammer $500,000 for a real estate scam... Imagine winning 2 major tournaments in months and lose everything within weeks, Ive said it since day 1, poker will break him, he should stick to $25/$50 NL , grind the life. He literally throws in $150k w Q hi preflop for nothing and gets smashed..
I'm sorry dude I'm sorry to say this but I like your style in the beginning I was impressed and I myself a professional Gambler I love poker I love crabs and I thank you for the games.. However, the kind of hands that he Nathan was trying to Bluff his opponents I understand bluffing is a very common thing but you cannot Bluff 6% of the hands. So don't wonder he has lost his back roll he will come back you know but you have to prove his style his game and everybody every poker player is hard to have and they all know what he is doing and how he plays and sometimes he's very childish. He's a young man he just started gambling and I've been doing it for 30 years and and gambling it's called Growing Pains yeah .. He will have to put it 10 or 20 years as a professional Gambler and he will eventually achieve success.
He might want to consider doing a brutally honest variance assessment for the stakes he's playing. I mean real math, (not "intuition") using stdev (sqrt of the variance), etc. There are plenty of poker players out there who can help with the math part, or it's all online as well. Many players fall into the trap of thinking that their current "horrific" downswing is a one-in-a-million occurrence of awful luck, and that things are bound to "turn around" soon. When in fact said downswing may be a completely expected result given the variance of the stakes they're playing. The unfortunate reality of poker (and most other forms of gambling), is that if you're playing at a level that is "exciting", you're probably playing beyond your bankroll. No matter how well-heeled you are, there will always be someone out there who could take your life's savings, throw it down the sewer, and not lose a minute's sleep.
85% of poker players get their ass kicked. So it’s nothing new. All of these guys in this game would lose in a 1/3, 2/5 game versus regulars. Don’t buy into the hype just because it’s streamed.
He plays like a billionaire with middle class net worth. 40% VPIP is just not sustainable in modern poker unless you have gigantic skill edge which he doesn't. He's calling 3bets and 4bets with rag 48 off suit type hands getting into huge pots with very weak holdings. He doesn't change gears playing ultra aggro the whole time allowing players to adjust to his punting.
His style of play caught up to him. Everyone used to be scared of his punts. Now, everyone is picking him off. He’s also has degenerate tendencies. He’s better off playing black jack.
Playing for emotion is, as Rampage says himself, a losing path. He needs to set emotion aside and go for a cold, intellectual affect. Always thinking, always judging, always grinding. Grinding is slow and tedious, but it brings in the money. Go home with less navel-gazing and more jingle in your pocket.
Man this type of poker play reminds me of how I played the other month on a 3 night drinking binge which resulted in losing $4000. Except he's sober and losing 7 figures.... that's gotta HURT.
At least is nearly there on the first step to recognise he is a gambling addict.... At high stakes with the cameras rolling we can sometimes over look this or think because they are rich, capable of playing fairly decent poker that somehow that makes it less sad to watch complete degenerate gambling when tilted. If rampage wants to chase the highs he should stick to tournament poker where you are forced to play good poker, there is no instant gratification and somewhat capped in what you can lose. Winning a final table will still feel good and $500k is a couple of years of bullets and not one bad evening. Rampage needs to surround himself with friends and family outside of poker and solid poker pros who can tell him he needs a break/guidance. Also a couple of grand on therapy and why you are chasing this high would also be money well spent...
hes a good player but he started player way above his means to try and win big which was the stupidest thing u can do and thats how go broke after all his 6 figures tourny wins he should of stayed at 5-10 10-20 , not jump to 50-100 and 100-200 putting 200k on the table over and over ,you cant run good all the time , should always go into any game with 2 bullets u bust call it a night it wont get better
Every Journey, no matter the length, begins with one step, even journey's to the top of Mount Everest. Sounds like you became a millionaire by playing poker at a reasonable pace when increasing the stakes but once you reached the highest of stakes you try to make huge leaps in results rather than maintaining a sustainable and constant pace. Go back and re-explore the basics.
If I ever got in the position to have a million dollar downswing (I'm not good enough at the game to actually win that much), I'd have quit or at least gone back to low stakes before it could happen. What is the point in risking everything when you already have all the money you will ever need?
Rampage is probably 1 big suck out from getting back to his "A" game. Will he have enough bullets , bankroll or patience to last for that 1 spot? It'll have to be a super deep hand or a series of big hands.
13:30 bruh 50-100% of his networth on table? I thought he had 20% and still thought thats atrocious. 😮 Yeah take a break, practice better bankroll management
bankroll is there for a reason. to just assume you won't hit a downswing that can wipe you out at any moment without it is just pure gambling., nothing more. you cannot outskill poker at any moment. math and variance is a thing, at any point, for any amount you play, for a prolonged timeframe even.