My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (24 Viewers)

[Anthony Martino]

Lets fucking GO!

 

[Anthony Martino]

WHEEE!

 

[Mojo1312]

Good game. Rack em up.

 

[Bill_Man618]

WHEEE!

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What’s that like 5500?

 

[Anthony Martino]

What’s that like 5500?

That's closer to 6500

 

[FDLmold]

That's closer to 6500

No pumpkins? Chalk it up as a loss!

 

[Anthony Martino]

No pumpkins? Chalk it up as a loss!

I'm not @Bmeister51 with stacks of 5k chips big enough to shuffle!

 

[WedgeRock]

QT53 is the absolute nuts... didn't you hear?

...only if there is at least one flush draw in there.

NOTE: flush draw need not be the nut flush draw or anywhere near the NFD.

 

[Poker Zombie]

...only if there is at least one flush draw in there.

NOTE: flush draw need not be the nut flush draw or anywhere near the NFD.

It was a straight flush draw - obviously, that's better.

 

[TheDuke]

Sweet! In for 2k sitting ~6.5k?

Any notable pots?

 

[Anthony Martino]

Sweet! In for 2k sitting ~6.5k?

Any notable pots?

In for 2500. Lost my first 2k, rebought for 500 and spun it up

Check the poker strat thread, I've got three hands I shared

 

[Bmeister51]

I'm not @Bmeister51 with stacks of 5k chips big enough to shuffle!

to be fair my poker buddies and I may have to think about switching to being pro blackjack players.....

 

[Bmeister51]

On a whim went to the nearest casino. Four of us in for 2k each.... You can only sit three to a table so we rotated in and out. Booked a $2.5k profit per man and dinked the last $900 off on wheel of fortune lol. Epic night

 

[Anthony Martino]

On a whim went to the nearest casino. Four of us in for 2k each.... You can only sit three to a table so we rotated in and out. Booked a $2.5k profit per man and dinked the last $900 off on wheel of fortune lol. Epic night

You can't afford that kinda pay cut man!!!

 

[Anthony Martino]

So Saturday night (actually Sunday early a.m.) saw me buyin for 2k, and call a raise short-handed with QQ86 oop, then go broke on a T97 flop like a fucking idiot (I was the aggressor, but still)

So rebought for 500, built it to 785....1800.....3700....6500!

Managed to run well in a few multiway huge pots. One where I limp-potted AAJT one suit and got it in on a Q93 flop. Another where I called a raise from the SB with double suited KK65 and hit a K43 flop (posted in strat threads about some of these)

In the end I gave a few hundo back. In for $2,500 and out for $6,114. So +$3,614 on the session and turned around what had been a slow bleed week, where I lost EVERY session I played, only for a few hundred here, a few hundred there, but that shit adds up

Back at Luckys for the wild PLO game there. Done with losing as a 70-80% equity favorite against these fish, so going in with a positive mindset prepared to continue getting it in good

 

[WedgeRock]

AAJT one suit

 

[Anthony Martino]

?

 

[WedgeRock]

?

I'm guessing you meant AJT was one suit such that you had one suit to hit a NF with...

But typically when you hold a pocket pair, you have at least two suits.

 

[Anthony Martino]

I'm guessing you meant AJT was one suit such that you had one suit to hit a NF with...

But typically when you hold a pocket pair, you have at least two suits.

I had

So one nut suit

 

[WedgeRock]

I had

So one nut suit

We speak different dialects of the same language. I'd call that hand three-suited. Perhaps I am more accurate, but your way is more descriptive.

 

[Anthony Martino]

We speak different dialects of the same language. I'd call that hand three-suited. Perhaps I am more accurate, but your way is more descriptive.

Hand went down something like this:

Hero on button and limps along, calling the $10 rock bet behind him. Someone in the blinds puts in a raise, few folks calling, back to Hero, repots to something like $260 I believe it was

Only the Hijack and CO call (the CO puts his money in and exclaims "ok, let's gamble") Hero covers both opponents, but only by a few hundred

Flop

Heroes Hand:

They check to me, I bet pot, they both stack off, we run it twice:

first board: (hero turns top set and rivers nut straight)
second board: (hero rivers top set)

I didn't get to see their hands, but obviously scooped the whole shebang

 

[WedgeRock]

How common is running it twice? Seems it happens alot.

 

[Poker Zombie]

to be fair my poker buddies and I may have to think about switching to being pro blackjack players.....


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That is literally 4.5 months of my salary right there.

 

[Anthony Martino]

How common is running it twice? Seems it happens alot.

We can't do it in the 1/2 PLO game because it's jackpot eligible for high hands. But in the 1/2/5 unlimited restraddle at Luckys and the 2/5/10 at Hard Rock going twice is a pretty common thing.

There are some players who only go once, I was one of them for awhile. But switched back about a little over a month or so ago. It helps smooth out the variance a bit in big spots. And generally I'm getting it in as an equity favorite anyway, so keeps me from getting too hurt when they do suckout (there were a number of big pots about 2 weeks ago where if I only ran it once, despite being a monster favorite all three hands, I would've lost on the first board runout and gotten stacked)

What's funny is the colluding cubans at luckys will go twice with some players, and only once with others. They only go once with me, they don't like the gringo. And I've gotten them in as 80/20 and 70/30 dogs multiple times the past few pots we've played and they managed to win going once. But they will long-term lose to me so that's fine, run it once it is.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Gave her a much needed bath this morning

 

[WedgeRock]

It helps smooth out the variance a bit in big spots.

I'm not playing the same stakes as you, and I'm not playing for rent money. Running it twice in a heads-up flip seems meh. But running it twice when you are a favorite or there is a third person in the pot, seems to either control variance or allow you the chop dead money.

 

[moose]

I had

So one nut suit

Pretty much this is the plo standard way if describing your hand. It is either one suited or two suited or rainbow - sometimes you hear no suits or naked aces. It describes the number of suits you control.

Using '3 suited' is cray cray.

 

[Anthony Martino]

I'm not playing the same stakes as you, and I'm not playing for rent money. Running it twice in a heads-up flip seems meh. But running it twice when you are a favorite or there is a third person in the pot, seems to either control variance or allow you the chip dead money.

It's pretty rare in my experience that my equity is 50/50

Usually when I get it in I'm 60% or greater. Now I have been 50% equity 3 ways which is fine

 

[WedgeRock]

Pretty much this is the plo standard way if describing your hand. It is either one suited or two suited or rainbow. It describes the number of suits you control.

Using '3 suited' is cray cray.

So is what? Rainbow, because there is no NFD.

 

[Anthony Martino]

So is what? Rainbow, because there is no NFD.

It doesn't have to be a nut suit for you to call a hand suited