Some guys joined in a 1-2 $300 cap game yesterday acting like they were all professionals. One of them was moving to Florida to play at the Hollywood casino. He said he’s been playing seven years here in the New England area as a full-time job but didn’t want to talk about it until now. He doesn’t mind opening up now because he’s about to leave.
A new guy sits down beside me and I heard people talking like he has a vlog so I asked. He said he’s “Rampage.” I asked “The Rampage?” because I thought this guy was too famous to play $1-2. He said no he’s just a look-alike. I said I wouldn’t recognize him because I haven’t watch his videos in a couple of years (I probably saw two of his videos). I stopped short of saying that I heard he makes all his money off of the videos, not poker. LOL.
Is this the real rampage?
He did a lot of finagling to get his friend and his girlfriend to play on the same table… Not only on the same table but actually in three seats in a row. He was very insistent about playing side by side by side. He offered one guy $50 for his seat. Does that sound like somebody would you wanna play with? I would be afraid of cheating because they could be signaling each other under the table with just foot taps or something.
NOTE: I am NOT accusing anybody of cheating. I’m just saying that it is a lot harder to catch a cheater that can signal their co-conspirators without a cell phone or a visible or audible cue that everyone, including the casino cameras, can see or hear. I left for another casino minutes later when the high hand promotion ended.
I also am a little bit biased against him because I already knew a “Rampage” in poker from the “Heads Up Poker Podcast“ which changed to “In it to Win it with Steve Barton.” I don’t remember what year I heard this, but they were into their 200th episode back in 2019. They did not record every single week so I’m guessing it was 2015 or so when I heard Steve’s former cohost Mike Sneideman was given the moniker “Rampage” by his opponents at the Oceans 11 casino near San Diego.
Keep in mind also that I had over $1600 at this table, that the other big stacks had already left or lost, and that he was putting in some very large three-bets: $75 at least twice which was way higher than any other three-bet that we’ve had at this table for the last five hours… not that it was undeserved. Maybe the raises were going up, so the three-bets would naturally go up as well, but this game probably was about to get crazy for a $1-2 $300 cap game.
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Originally Posted by nunbeater
