My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (20 Viewers)

[Anthony Martino]

We are on button with and call a raise to 25

Four ways to a flop of

Checked around

Turn

Checked to the CO who bets 25, we just call, original raiser calls

River

Original raiser fires 200, CO insta-mucks, we sigh-fold the underfull

 

[Anthony Martino]

It's been restraddled to 40 by action junkie in the HJ. We are UTG with

We fold expecting he will go nuts and we are OOP with shitty kings

He raises to 240, multiple callers

Flop

Checked around

Turn

Guy shoves and gets snapped, river and he has QQ77 and got reshoved by a guy who just has a pair of tens at showdown lol

Still think it's the right fold preflop, but hate missing that spot

 

[Anthony Martino]

Le sigh, button straddled to 20, multiple callers, we call in HJ with

He pots to 135, one caller in MP, we call

Flop

MP bets 125, we pot, original raiser repots? MP folds, we get it in, he only runs once

Turn which looks good

River

He has le sigh

 

[Poker Zombie]

Le sigh, button straddled to 20, multiple callers, we call in HJ with

He pots to 135, one caller in MP, we call

Flop

MP bets 125, we pot, original raiser repots? MP folds, we get it in, he only runs once

Turn which looks good

River

He has le sigh

So you jammed with bottom-ish pair and a flush draw?

Is that a little too gambly, or are you thinking "to beat the droolers, you gotta play like one"?

 

[Anthony Martino]

So you jammed with bottom-ish pair and a flush draw?

Is that a little too gambly, or are you thinking "to beat the droolers, you gotta play like one"?

Top pair, top kicker with nfd. The bettor is a station and the preflop raiser is fairly nitty

The flop is generally terrible for the preflop raisers range, even if he has AAxx I am likely an equity favorite with pair plus fd

The station could have a weaker fd he would stack off with

The nitty raiser happening to wake up with top set here is just a super cooler given my hand and his usual raising range

 

[Anthony Martino]

We have in the SB and limp along

Flop

We pot for 65, two callers

Turn

We pot all-in and get called

River

My opponent (who got me with the QJ99 earlier) has fucking

Any straight or flush card on the turn I get away, he's got to hit a miracle fucking five I can't put him on

 

[MrCatPants]

It's been restraddled to 40 by action junkie in the HJ. We are UTG with

We fold expecting he will go nuts and we are OOP with shitty kings

He raises to 240, multiple callers

Flop

Checked around

Turn

Guy shoves and gets snapped, river and he has QQ77 and got reshoved by a guy who just has a pair of tens at showdown lol

Still think it's the right fold preflop, but hate missing that spot

We have a joke in our game where people will call out "certain flop!" right before it's dealt.

This is a "certain flop!" hand. Fold pre.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Lol, at least this was against a short stack

See a flpp with

Flop

It's bet into me, I pot, guy with $115 calls off and we go twice

He has

First board
Second board

He makes his straight on both boards and dodges my flush and full house outs lol

 

[Anthony Martino]

Oy vey, what a day. The best I could seem to do was chop my all-in pots, or get scooped.

Had on a flop of and got it in against a guy, we ran twice and I announce I have a flush draw and gutshot straight draw. He says he has "a pair"

First board

He announces he has a full house and I'm thinking "how the fuck does he have a full house when I have the flush AND three 6's????" He has So he called off his stack on the flop with bottom pair and a gutshot, and goes runner-runner the last two 6's in the deck to fill up.

Fortunately the 2nd runout I flushed and he didn't get me on that one, but we still chopped.

My last hand of the session I pickup and limp-call a raise, we see a flop of and I pot it and take it down, so at least no bad beat there.

5/5/10 PLO lost $1,568
2/2/5 PLO lost $232

All told in the grand scheme of losses it's not terrible, but good grief it's a pretty brutal way to lose.

The nit showing up with the case two 9's on the 249 flop after he raised pre really had me muttering to myself for awhile. Like, of course he's got the fucking case two 9's and I flop the nfd plus top pair so there's no way I'm going to put his hand anywhere near hitting that runout, especially with the third player betting that flop.

I figured at worst I'd run into him having AAKQ with the KQ of diamonds or something.

And then the hand where he binks the third 5 on the turn, pretty much the only way I continue betting because the obvious straight and flush draws didn't hit. All I can do is shake my head and curse poker jeezus at this point.

Back at it tomorrow.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Just remembered a hand where I got it in really rough shape equity-wise. Playing the 2/2/5 last night and a guy who was newer to PLO had raised to 15 preflop after I limped with JT87. Multiple callers, we close the action as this kid is on our direct left, so we call.

Flop QT9 with two clubs (we don't have clubs). Checked to him, he bets pot and only has a little more on top of that as he bought in short. Everyone folds around to me (if anyone went along I'd have folded as I'd be concerned about the flush draw) but just facing the preflop shortstacked raiser I get it in.

He has KQQJ and I'm essentially drawing dead to a chop if another King falls. We run it twice but I do not get there.

This is probably the worst I've gotten it in, in a long time

 

[mattross1313]

We are on the button and call a raise with

Flop

Checked around

Turn

Guy in HJ bets 75, we are the only caller

River

He bets 200, we pot to 855. He thinks for awhile but winds up folding

With the effective nuts here excluding . Do you pot here to try and get max value?
I guess it's player dependant V's a min/small raise to try and get a crying call from the HJ?

 

[JMC9389]

With the effective nuts here excluding . Do you pot here to try and get max value?
I guess it's player dependant V's a min/small raise to try and get a crying call from the HJ?

In position here I would like to underrep my hand if it's checked to me post flop. If checked to me, I check back and then bomb it on the turn to make it look like I'm bluffing there.

Unless the preflop raiser has aces or kings and the 4 and 6 of diamonds, it is very unlikely Anthony is behind after that flop. There's not too many cards that would scare me on the turn either.

 

[mattross1313]

In position here I would like to underrep my hand if it's checked to me post flop. If checked to me, I check back and then bomb it on the turn to make it look like I'm bluffing there.

Fully agree with slow playing that flop.
Apologies my first Q wasn't clear - it was more aimed at the river action where HJ bets $220 then @Anthony Martino 's pot raise. But I guess any raise of any size at this point would trigger alarm bells, so may as well go for the max?

 

[JMC9389]

Fully agree with slow playing that flop.
Apologies my first Q wasn't clear - it was more aimed at the river action where HJ bets $220 then @Anthony Martino 's pot raise. But I guess any raise of any size at this point would trigger alarm bells, so may as well go for the max?

Ah yeah, gotcha. The 6 of clubs is a perfect action card for the villain that wouldn't scare me at all there holding the flush. As played, Anthony didn't at all play it poorly, but I would have tried to extract more value from a straight or straight draw after seeing that turn.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Fully agree with slow playing that flop.
Apologies my first Q wasn't clear - it was more aimed at the river action where HJ bets $220 then @Anthony Martino 's pot raise. But I guess any raise of any size at this point would trigger alarm bells, so may as well go for the max?

Exactly, I figured a small cutesy raise might look more value-heavy than a big raise sometimes, so might as well go for the max

 

[Anthony Martino]

Alright, maintaining a positive attitude, let's get that $$$

 

[Anthony Martino]

We are HJ with and pot to 35 pre first in. CO, SB and BB call

Flop

Checked to us, we pot, BB calls off half his chips

Turn

He check-calls it off, we go twice, he has a smaller flush so we scoop

 

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[Anthony Martino]

We limp in the CO and see a flop of



We pot, same shorty from before calls

Turn

He rips in his last 140, we agree to go twice

1st river
2nd river

We scoop

 

[Anthony Martino]

We are MP, button straddled to 20, two callers, utg+1 makes it 100, we call with

Flop

Checked to us with just the button behind, but we chicken out and check, button pots it, folds to us, we let it go

 

[Anthony Martino]

We limp the SB with 55xx

Three ways to a Flop K99

Checked around

Turn 5

Checked to action who bets 30, we just call

River 5

BINGO BANGO BONGO VINCE!

We check, he fires 65, we toss out three black chips, he sigh-folds and flashes a 9

 

[Pinesol13]

We limp in the CO and see a flop of



We pot, same shorty from before calls

Turn

He rips in his last 140, we agree to go twice

1st river
2nd river

We scoop

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Did he show?

 

[Anthony Martino]

Did he show?

He showed the case Queen

 

[Anthony Martino]

We are chipping up steadily, no crazy pots yet

 

[Anthony Martino]

Peacocking

 

[Anthony Martino]

We got ourselves a lavendar chip boys, LFG!

 

[FDLmold]

 

[Anthony Martino]

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Honey start the car I'm coming home!

 

[Anthony Martino]

We limp in the BB

Multiway to a flop



We bet pot since this board shouldn't hit anyone too hard

The guy we busted twice earlier when he was shortstacked has been winning and calls the $65 bet

Turn

We check for pot control, he bets $125, we call

River

We make our flush, but given his line he looks like he is possibly full. Best case scenario is he just has three kings

We check, hw checks behind and shows

and scoops it

 

[Anthony Martino]

We managed to have a nice session, feels like forever since we've been able to enjoy a session and be up pretty much from the jump. Cashed out +$1,144 on the night, back at it Saturday