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My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (19 Viewers)

Anthony Martino said:
We are in the SB with :qs::qd::9h::7h:

Multiway to a flop of :qh::8h::6d:

We pot for 40, one caller from BB

Turn :7c:

We pot, he repots and has 385 total. We call and go twice

First river :ks:
Second river :9c:

He has :td::9d::6h::2s: and scoops lol
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It was interesting reading about the last few days.

But this hand I don't get. If you were going to call off, why not check call down instead of potting turn with one card to come and letting him get his stack in?
 
moose said:
It was interesting reading about the last few days.

But this hand I don't get. If you were going to call off, why not check call down instead of potting turn with one card to come and letting him get his stack in?
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Because the gutshot offsuit 7 on the turn isn't the most likely card to hit my opponents range, I still expected on the turn I was ahead (when I bet, not after he raised)

When I get called on that particular flop I'm more concerned with him having a better flush draw than me, as I have cards in my hand that make up some of the combos of the straight draw hands that could be out

As I assumed his most likely calling range on the flop was a better flush draw, I continued to bet to deny him equity if that was what he was after, rather than checking to let him hit it for free

I didn't discount the straight possibilities, but I blocked some of them and put more weight on him being after the flush

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After I potted the turn and he shoves, there is $615 in the pot and I need to call $265 more, so was getting the right price
 
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Anthony Martino said:
Had another funny hand, I see a flop holding :as::9c::8s::6h:

The flop is :ah::ad::ts:

Lady in MP bets out $20, I call with position on her. Just the two of us continue to the turn

:2c:

We both check and the river is

:2h:

We both check it down and she announces she only has a Ten! I roll my hand over and she starts turning her cards over one-at-a-time and reveals:

:jd::th::9d::2d:

She's pushing her cards towards the dealer but I notice she has somehow made runner-runner full-house on me and point it out and she's awarded the small pot, cause I ain't no scumbag.

When I went for my dinner break I had JUST gotten my food and sat down and they call the 10/10/25 game. So I rush over to put my card down, then rush over to my 2/2/5 table to take my chips off and put them on the new table, then head back to finish eating. When I am done I head to the table and find that the game didn't go. The players who showed up were in other games and maybe they didn't like the lineup or liked the games they were already in and so it didn't run.

I managed to luck out and get a dealer to tell a brush to give me the open seat at my previous 2/2/5 game and hopped back in.

End of session results:

5/5/10 - lost $85
2/2/5 - won $600

So +$515 on the day. Not as amazing as the past couple of days, but still feels great to put three consecutive wins in a row on the first week of playing on my stake.
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I bet you wouldn't have told her if the pot was $1000 :ROFL: :ROFLMAO: ;)
 
Perthmike said:
I bet you wouldn't have told her if the pot was $1000 :ROFL: :ROFLMAO: ;)
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I lost a big pot awhile ago when I had nf vs 2nd nf

He turned bottom two pair and rivered full and didn't even realize it

I'm not the type of scumbag to try and steal a pot like that after cards are tabled

Plus, the fish who win in those spots are gonna give that money back with interest in the long run
 
Perthmike said:
I bet you wouldn't have told her if the pot was $1000 :ROFL: :ROFLMAO: ;)
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I dare say, that if your opponent tables the winning cards, but pushes the pot to you, you are obligated to give them the pot. Even if they missed it, the dealer missed it, and everyone at the table missed it. Anything else would be called cheating.
 
That "NO ENGLISH!" character on a previous day had been involved in a pot where the hands were tabled and they didn't notice his opponent had the winning hand. I spoke up and he got upset with me since I wasn't "in the pot". But the rules are that if you see an error being made you have a duty to call attention to it.

Dealers are human and make mistakes, people get fixated on one aspect of the hand they were going for and don't realize they made a completely different winning hand than what they were trying to make. I always speak up if something like that happens, it's the right thing to do.
 
Anthony Martino said:
That "NO ENGLISH!" character on a previous day had been involved in a pot where the hands were tabled and they didn't notice his opponent had the winning hand. I spoke up and he got upset with me since I wasn't "in the pot". But the rules are that if you see an error being made you have a duty to call attention to it.

Dealers are human and make mistakes, people get fixated on one aspect of the hand they were going for and don't realize they made a completely different winning hand than what they were trying to make. I always speak up if something like that happens, it's the right thing to do.
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Yup. Karma is real. It'll bite you in the ass in the long run if you intentionally benefit from an error and don't speak up.
 
Anthony Martino said:
Because the gutshot offsuit 7 on the turn isn't the most likely card to hit my opponents range, I still expected on the turn I was ahead (when I bet, not after he raised)
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Isn't that kind of holdem thinking though? I mean there are all sorts of combo flush/rundown draws on that board that hit that turn. 10976, AJ109, Ax54 etc. I know you are blocking some of the cards but there are actually more straight cards out there (7) than flush cards that beat you (3). If you want to throw the 5s completely out of the range and only include hands that include a 9, then it is still 3 to 3 and you still hold two flush cards as blockers. Plus the straight is already complete and the flush is yet to come so this is kind of the draw heavy board where you want to control the pot size. Given his stack size you are never going to force a fold so you bloat the pot unnecessarily when you could already be losing (and were).

Just my thought process but if you believed to be ahead maybe your goal was to get his entire stack in?
 
moose said:
Isn't that kind of holdem thinking though? I mean there are all sorts of combo flush/rundown draws on that board that hit that turn. 10976, AJ109, Ax54 etc. I know you are blocking some of the cards but there are actually more straight cards out there (7) than flush cards that beat you (3). If you want to throw the 5s completely out of the range and only include hands that include a 9, then it is still 3 to 3 and you still hold two flush cards as blockers. Plus the straight is already complete and the flush is yet to come so this is kind of the draw heavy board where you want to control the pot size. Given his stack size you are never going to force a fold so you bloat the pot unnecessarily when you could already be losing (and were).

Just my thought process but if you believed to be ahead maybe your goal was to get his entire stack in?
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When I bet the turn I believed I still had the best hand.

If the guy wants to chase a double gutshot on a flushing flop without having the flush draw himself, well, noted.

He paid it back with interest throughout the night as he stacked off and rebought multiple times
 
The crazy asian guy Bong on my direct left, straddling and raising EVERY pot

He's already busted twice. Gotta keep him stuck, can't let him gain any traction or he'll start winning with 4% and 2.5% equity
 
Third table open for an hour, so other 2 tables are main games now

Whenever a seat opens at my table players flee from the other main game. Then a player flees our table to the other main game

It's the most insane game of musical chairs I've ever seen
 
Anthony Martino said:
Third table open for an hour, so other 2 tables are main games now

Whenever a seat opens at my table players flee from the other main game. Then a player flees our table to the other main game

It's the most insane game of musical chairs I've ever seen
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You guys doing prop bets?
 
Poker Zombie said:
Isolate.
Scoop.
Repeat.
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Isolate is a bad idea. He will bloat pots and play for stacks pre.

Equities run very close preflop, that plays into his game, giving up my post-flop edge

Keep pot sizes small, see flops multiway, he'll be hard pressed to beat the field with the garbage he plays
 
Anthony Martino said:
Isolate is a bad idea. He will bloat pots and play for stacks pre.

Equities run very close preflop, that plays into his game, giving up my post-flop edge

Keep pot sizes small, see flops multiway, he'll be hard pressed to beat the field with the garbage he plays
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So... basically flipping for stacks? :(
 

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