My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (14 Viewers)

[Anthony Martino]

And we're off!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Female Bong at table, only in for $200 and playing tighter than yesterday

We'll see if she ramps up when she gets some chips

 

[JMC9389]

I still think that's Bong incognito

 

[Stufflymcstuff]

Respect for posting your poorly hand plays and oddball spews - usually people only post stuff that makes them look good. I’m sure your backers appreciate the honesty.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Respect for posting your poorly hand plays and oddball spews - usually people only post stuff that makes them look good. I’m sure your backers appreciate the honesty.

I told them about the $150 dealer tip too, in case they wanted me to eat that cost since it's obviously a much bigger tip than I would normally give

 

[Anthony Martino]

We limp-raise the button to $175 with

Two callers including Mrs Bong who has $125 behind and the SB who just won a big pot

Flop

They both check to me, I decide to not run the naked ace bluff this time

Turn

SB checks, Mrs Bong rips in $125. I consider a call but SB looks interested so I let it go. He calls.

She has 2 pair, rivers a straight and scoops

 

[Anthony Martino]

We are the rock, limped around and on a rainbow flop of A26 theres a $15 bet, one caller, we call, lady on my left makes it $125

We just call. Turn brings wheel draw possibility, plus I pickup a flush draw

We check through river, she has a set of Aces, we lose the minimum

Then a bit later we limp call a raise with KKxx. Flop is K76, we pot, Mrs Bong calls

Turn 7, we check-call her shove. She has a 7 and we hold

 

[Anthony Martino]

We are up about $300 and new 5/5/10 called, LFG!

 

[Anthony Martino]

One hour of not winning a hand

Made some preflop raises in position, called some raises, keep whiffing

A slow bleed so far, just staying patient

 

[Anthony Martino]

One pro trying to take advantage of the tighter table, straddling, raising, betting

Just got his ass checkraised, fuck that guy lol

 

[Anthony Martino]

Me last night when I won that big hand

 

[Saoliver]

Me last night when I won that big hand

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[Anthony Martino]

We raise to $40 in EP with

Couple callers, flop is



We bet pot, one caller with position

Turn

We pot again, he folds, won our first pot after an hour and a half

The pro keeps trying to bully and bluff these guys postflop and keeps getting raised or checkraised, lol, fuck that guy!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Where are these hunnies when I'm skating???

 

[Anthony Martino]

Down almost $200 in the 5/5/10

They just called the 10/10/25

Time to move up where they respect my raises lol

 

[Anthony Martino]

Overall on the day won about $450

Small win at 2/2/5

Small loss at 5/5/10

Small win at 10/10/25

The bigger game had a few action players, but they treaded more cautiously than they do in some of the lower buyin games

One of them raised 4455 pre and hit a well-disguised flop of 852 and made some money

 

[Anthony Martino]

Was just looking at my equity in that 2nd big hand right after I won the huge pot the first hand a couple of days ago. I know my cards and the AQT7 are exact hands. The 3rd guys cards are a little fuzzy, but I believe this is pretty close to what he held.

Somehow, my AJ98 was actually the equity favorite, which is pretty nuts. I thought the equities were closer with me as a slight dog when I saw the hands tabled.

Back at it tomorrow at TGT's/Luckys. We'll see if Bong shows up to continue his reign of terror with a 100% VPIP and 100% Raise preflop percentage. He lost many thousands of dineros last week, let's hope that trend continues.

 

[pltrgyst]

Somehow, my AJ98 was actually the equity favorite, which is pretty nuts. I thought the equities were closer with me as a slight dog when I saw the hands tabled.

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Not really -- you're ignoring the 13.61% Tie probability that the other two hands share. The only reason AKQT doesn't show 40.96 is that he's sharing the likelihood of a tie (AQ or AT) with AQT7, not with you.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Not really -- you're ignoring the 13.61% Tie probability that the other two hands share. The only reason AKQT doesn't show 40.96 is that he's sharing the likelihood of a tie (AQ or AT) with AQT7, not with you.

Well, someone had to rain on his parade....

 

[Anthony Martino]

Not really -- you're ignoring the 13.61% Tie probability that the other two hands share. The only reason AKQT doesn't show 40.96 is that he's sharing the likelihood of a tie (AQ or AT) with AQT7, not with you.

I'm not ignoring it. I'm still an equity favorite three ways when you factor in the amount of money that can be won. That guy only scoops 27% of the time and has to chop the pot the other 13%

 

[pltrgyst]

I'm not ignoring it. I'm still an equity favorite three ways when you factor in the amount of money that can be won. That guy only scoops 27% of the time and has to chop the pot the other 13%

The other guy scoops 27% of the time, and he and the other guy share your money 13% of the time. You still lose 40+% of the time.

You may call that being an equity favorite, but you're not considering the overall picture.

 

[Josh Kifer]

Good odds good! Bad odds bad! We like good!

 

[Anthony Martino]

The other guy scoops 27% of the time, and he and the other guy share your money 13% of the time. You still lose 40+% of the time.

You may call that being an equity favorite, but you're not considering the overall picture.

Having 40% equity three-ways is a long-term profitable scenario

 

[Mojo1312]

@Anthony Martino, has your definition of pro changed since turning to poker full time?

 

[Anthony Martino]

@Anthony Martino, has your definition of pro changed since turning to poker full time?

I don't believe so? I consider a pro someone whose primary income is poker

Doesn't mean they are good or bad though

 

[allforcharity]

Is it even medically possible to fart that much?

Unfortunately, yes.

 

[Anthony Martino]

The other guy scoops 27% of the time, and he and the other guy share your money 13% of the time. You still lose 40+% of the time.

You may call that being an equity favorite, but you're not considering the overall picture.

If there is a $3,000 pot and we've all put in $1,000 each, and I have 40% equity, then if we run that same scenario over and over until the end of time my expectation is that I will make a $200 profit from each time we do this, when you add up all the wins and losses over time, as my expectation is to put in $1,000 and get $1,200 back.

The guy with 27% scoop equity and 13% chop equity is going to realize an overall profit of:

$810 (27% equity for scoop) + $195 (13% equity halved for chop) = $1,005 (i.e. he makes an overall profit of $5 each time we play out this scenario until the end of time.

The guy with 19% equity to scoop gets $570 + 13% equity halved for chop is $195 = $765. So he's going to be a net loser each time of $235

Now obviously my $200 + the other guys $5 profit do not equal this third players $235 loss. That's because I'm just going with even numbers, the percentages have decimals so using the full percentages would get it right.

But regardless, I still stand by my statement that I'm an "equity favorite" three ways in this specific scenario.

 

[Josh Kifer]

 

[MatB]

poker maff hurts my head.

If you're 40% to win a hand would it not matter if there were 3 , 4 or 8 players in the hand?

40% is 40% no? Which means you are losing more times than winning?

explain it like I'm 5 (buyins deep)

 

[Hornet]

poker maff hurts my head.

If you're 40% to win a hand would it not matter if there were 3 , 4 or 8 players in the hand?

40% is 40% no? Which means you are losing more times than winning?

explain it like I'm 5 (buyins deep)

Just imagine winning flips with 8 players at the table 40% of the time … you would be (even more of) a lucky bastard!