My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (26 Viewers)

[tabletalker7]

No sir, I limp-called with but gave up on the flop

Good. That is how you keep yourself off of outdoor stages and keep your clothes on.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Damn, that dude just racked up to go play nl hold em. Said he likes to bluff and can't do that with 74 cards in play

 

[tabletalker7]

Damn, that dude just racked up to go play nl hold em. Said he likes to bluff and can't do that with 74 cards in play

I don't care how much you hate that damn two card game go follow him and pluck that pigeon clean!

 

[Anthony Martino]

I just moved to a seat that opened so the maniacs are on my right instead of left. Gl us

 

[Anthony Martino]

Drooler called a raise from the blinds with AJJ4 no suits

 

[Mojo1312]

Damn, that dude just racked up to go play nl hold em. Said he likes to bluff and can't do that with 74 cards in play

Don't misquote me Anthony. I said 64 cards, not 74.

 

[Anthony Martino]

We have on a flop of

Pot for 100, two callers

Turn

We pot for 400, guy shoves for 850 total. We call, he only runs once

River

He has lol

 

[Mojo1312]

Those odds are reversed after the villain turns the straight.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Those odds are reversed after the villain turns the straight.

I know, why can't I hit some fucking miracles on these droolers?

I was around 27-28% after the turn

 

[Anthony Martino]

We raise but on a flop of we have to let it go facing significant action (pot and repot)

Both guys whiff their draws, we would've hit an Ace turn to triple

Next hand dealt we pot over a LAGS raise with the $330 left in front of us, two callers

Flop

They get it in and go twice

First board
Second board

One has a flush but our full wins the other half

 

[Mojo1312]

Wow! Talk about irony! A 2+2 member by the name of "plomaster6789ten" is bragging on 2+2 how he felted some shmo with .

 

[Anthony Martino]

We call a 35 raise with

Flop is

We pot for 140, one caller

Turn

He checks, we pot all-in for 315. He thinls for awhile but eventually calls and goes twice

First board
Second board

He has and sneaks away with half

 

[Anthony Martino]

Guy on my left playing lol

 

[Anthony Martino]

I get it in against these two fucking retards for 525 pre (idiot with T984 raised button and repotted after I limp repotted) and one makes 10's and 4's and the other a set of 10's after the board comes

A45T6

Stuck 1500. Just buying in for 500 to spin it up and pit these bigger stacks against each other

 

[Anthony Martino]

They're straddling to 80 now lol

 

[DrBill]

We lured a 1/2 nlhe player over, he dumped $700 and bounced

The 2/2/5 broke so they filled our empty seats

I can’t believe y’all took him from my game. He was amazingly generous! Haha

 

[Anthony Martino]

We restraddle the button to 40 with 430 in our stack and are dealt



We get it in and are against KK32 and 3457

First flop is 466 giving us the only flush draw but we lose both boards, REBUY!

 

[Anthony Martino]

We limp and mr T984 button raise pots on the button, bunch of callers, we repot to 330 or something

He repots to iso and runs once. He flips over but I let him know that shit ain't good and turn over my hand

Flop

Ok, some possibilities. Turn FUCK UR MOTHER BITCH!

River

We more than double but are still stuck. But seriously, fuck these guys!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Lol, we limp

Flop

Checked to button who bets, I call, drooler on my left calls

Turn

Checked around

River

We check to drooler who bets 125, button folds, we call. He announces full house and turns over



Just rivers the case 4 to sneak away with it lol. This is becoming a fucking running gag at this point

 

[Anthony Martino]

Geesh, mr 2335 ds raises to 35 utg, we call with A456 ds

Flop 369 rainbow, he bets we pot, doofus with TT98 calls both our all-ins with a gutshot

They both chop me up with sets

 

[Anthony Martino]

We straddle button to 20 and get to rip it pre with for 500 total four ways

Flop

The rest of them get it in

Mr T984 has 8765 with hearts and scoops it

Stuck 3k now

 

[detroitdad]

We straddle button to 20 and get to rip it pre with for 500 total four ways

Flop

The rest of them get it in

Mr T984 has 8765 with hearts and scoops it

Stuck 3k now

You think that is a good starting hand?

 

[Rhodeman77]

We straddle button to 20 and get to rip it pre with for 500 total four ways

Flop

The rest of them get it in

Mr T984 has 8765 with hearts and scoops it

Stuck 3k now

Why are you straddling at all? If you are the better player than all of them you should be wanting to keep stacks deeper not shorter so that you can exploit their mistakes. None of the other hands have less than 20-25% equity preflop. You are playing scratch off lotto poker like the rest of them at this point.

 

[Anthony Martino]

You think that is a good starting hand?

How is it not on a short-stack? Pair plus flush draw and the 56 are coordinated with one another

Why are you straddling at all? If you are the better player than all of them you should be wanting to keep stacks deeper not shorter so that you can exploit their mistakes. None of the other hands have less than 20-25% equity preflop. You are playing scratch off lotto poker like the rest of them at this point.

I'm only straddling in position, and not everytime.

These guys are deeper stacked and regularly straddling to 40 or 80 preflop, so the game plays much bigger

If I buyin bigger I'm still not going to be deepstacked given the straddles, so I'll wind up call-folding and bleeding chips too much

Because they are all deeper-stacked and making the game play bigger the counter is Rolf Slotbooms strategy

We buyin short and rip it pre when we have strong/coordinated hands

There is a possibility someone isolates and we only have to face one hand with dead money in the pot

Alternatively we get multiple deepstacked callers, allowing us an opportunity to 3-5x our stack

Plus post-flop one of the deepstacks may push the others off their hands. Now we not only get a shot at 3-5xing our stack, but we only have to beat one hand at showdown

The swings go up because while you always realize your equity, your opponents do as well

But getting in a spot where if you even have 33% equity post-flop and can 4x your stack it's long-term profitable

 

[Rhodeman77]

Why does position matter if you are shoving your stack in preflop?

 

[Anthony Martino]

Why does position matter if you are shoving your stack in preflop?

I'm not shoving everytime I straddled, it's hand strength dependent. Sometimes I may check my option and see a flop with position

KK65 suited rates to be better than a lot of the trash these guys are calling with

Likewise a double suited rundown, etc are all candidates to rip it in those spots

 

[Anthony Martino]

The 5/5/10 breaks. We get a seat in the 10/10/25 but the guy who got us there with 22% last time is just leaving (with only 900 left) and that game breaks before I get dealt in

We manage to get a seat in the 2/2/5, gl us!

 

[Anthony Martino]

UTG raises to 20, one caller, we raise to 90

They both call, flop is

Original raiser checks, other caller does the "I guess I pot?" move, we make the obvious fold

 

[Anthony Martino]

We have and see a flop of



We call a bet, multiway to turn

Shorty shoves, we repot to 800 to isolate, guy with 3k in front of him repots, we call off and go twice

He has

She has xx

First river
Second river

We chop her up

 

[Mojo1312]

The 5/5/10 breaks. We get a seat in the 10/10/25 but the guy who got us there with 22% last time is just leaving (with only 900 left) and that game breaks before I get dealt in

We manage to get a seat in the 2/2/5, gl us!

Sounds like a hell of a game Anthony. Keep swinging for that hole in one! What is the worse that can happen?