My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (25 Viewers)

[Kain8]

High point saw me up roughly $500, but the games were so-so across multiple tables, had to settle for a small win of $345 for the day

Like his wife said on their wedding day, "You have to enjoy the little wins!"

 

[Anthony Martino]

Playing a later session

 

[Anthony Martino]

Despite not seeing a suited ace yet, not playing a ton of hands, but paying time and calling some raises, I am still up $6 lol

Table pretty good, a few LAGfish that can't help themselves

 

[Anthony Martino]

Wow, just watched a guy with AX44 on an 8422 board get it in against AAxx and the one outer hit the river, case Ace

 

[Anthony Martino]

HJ makes it 50, we call in the CO with

Flop

He bets 150, we consider ripping it, but we are both derp so I just call

Turn

He bets 500, we rip, he folds and claims he misread his hand and thought he had a set of 8's

 

[bergs]

Wheee

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Are those $25s different colors by design or just massive wear?

 

[Anthony Martino]

Are those $25s different colors by design or just massive wear?

Some of the chips don't match, it's not from wear

 

[Anthony Martino]

The 5/5 is a must move so I had to transfer to the main game, terrible lineup with a bunch of guys sitting on 10k+

Hoping to get called for 2/2 but only one table and I'm 5th on the list, they are hurting for dealers

 

[Anthony Martino]

Look at all these tables going to waste

 

[Anthony Martino]

Get a seat in the 2/2/5 and first hand we are dealt and limp repot, three shorties get it in

I make the nut straight on the first board, flop the nut straight draw on 2nd board, turn Aces up but lady with KKQT boats so we have to chop

 

[Anthony Martino]

We call a preflop raise with and on a flop of there is a $75 bet, original raiser pots it, we rip it, she calls with the nfd but whiffs both boards and we scoop

 

[Anthony Martino]

+$178 in 5/5/10

+$1,606 in 2/2/5

Total $1,784 in profit!

 

[Saoliver]

+$178 in 5/5/10

+$1,606 in 2/2/5

Total $1,784 in profit!

 

[Poker Zombie]

HJ makes it 50, we call in the CO with

Flop

He bets 150, we consider ripping it, but we are both derp so I just call

Turn

He bets 500, we rip, he folds and claims he misread his hand and thought he had a set of 8's

As someone who has misread his own hand way too many times, let me just say...

You don't bet $500 and later fold. You take that shit to the river and proudly show what you thought you had. Then stare blankly as the dealer pushes the pot away from you.

 

[Anthony Martino]

As someone who has misread his own hand way too many times, let me just say...

You don't bet $500 and later fold. You take that shit to the river and proudly show what you thought you had. Then stare blankly as the dealer pushes the pot away from you.

I was surprised he folded too, since he had about 1k behind if I remember correctly

But I'm fine with scooping that money without needing to win at showdown

 

[Anthony Martino]

Absolute zoo tonight, gonna be awhile before I get a seat

 

[Jonesey07]

Absolute zoo tonight, gonna be awhile before I get a seat

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Woah. Must be Burt Reynolds or something.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Away we go

 

[Anthony Martino]

Wow, best fold of my career. We have and call a raise, flop and we slowplay it

Turn and we pot, one caller

River

We pot for 270, he pots all-in for about 700. He starts yapping saying he knows I can't have the Ace high flush, I turn over the Ace

He is yapping WAY too much like he really wants the call. I lay it down, he flashes whew

A penny saved is a penny earned. I took 2 full minutes before I made that laydown

 

[toothpic]

Wow, best fold of my career. We have and call a raise, flop and we slowplay it

Turn and we pot, one caller

River

We pot for 270, he pots all-in for about 700. He starts yapping saying he knows I can't have the Ace high flush, I turn over the Ace

He is yapping WAY too much like he really wants the call. I lay it down, he flashes whew

A penny saved is a penny earned. I took 2 full minutes before I made that laydown

Never understood why people do that, but glad it worked to your advantage this time.

 

[FDLmold]

That idiot talked WAY too much.

 

[Anthony Martino]

We have on a flop of

We pot and get repotted, lay it down. He shows AKK8

I was worried he had A7xx and I was drawing to just three outs, figuring my 5 or 6 wasn't live

 

[FDLmold]

We have on a flop of

We pot and get repotted, lay it down. He shows AKK8

I was worried he had A7xx and I was drawing to just three outs, figuring my 5 or 6 wasn't live

He still had you outkicked if you both whiffed, so good laydown.

 

[Anthony Martino]

He still had you outkicked if you both whiffed, so good laydown.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Ooch, get it in with against

She only goes once. Flop

Turn

River

She makes a straight, REBUY!

 

[Anthony Martino]

We win a pot after raising the button with and getting it in on the flop

Comes but we hold

 

[Stufflymcstuff]

The “I know you can’t have the ace of hearts” line is a clear strong when weak thing. It’s like if he said “yea I knew you were bluffing” - he’s volunteering an explanation for why he might do it without having the nuts which you wouldn’t want to do if actually bluffing (unless it was an elaborate reverse tell but that’s hard to imagine). And him recognizing the significance of the ace (and also you having the king) makes for a pretty strong read.

But even putting reads aside it’s not that crazy of a fold if a large number of people saw the flop. If it’s 5 way for instance theres a good chance you don’t pot it with the king high flush (or at least I don’t think you should). You may also have a small number of bluffs (doubtful against this lineup) but even if played “optimally” most of your range will be nut flushes and so if he’s putting in 700 to win 540 with a hand that can at best have 25% equity (sets) its not exploitable to fold some ace high flushes.

And this is one of the worst ones to call with.

1/3rd of remaining hearts are blockers and you often have more than 2 hearts in your hand, so it’s closer to half of your nut flushes that have one or more blockers. Having the K also greatly diminishes the likelihood of him being a noob overplaying a lower flush. Only AhKhQhx is worse.

 

[Anthony Martino]

We are button with and call a smallish $15 raise

Multiway to a flop of and EP bets 35, one caller, we call

Turn

He bets 50, one caller, we pot, they fold

Next hand we limp in with in MP, there's a buttonraise to 20, UTG makes it 100, five ways to a flop



Another MP player pots it, we can hit an Ace, Jack, Ten or Nine to make the nuts, but diamonds are bad for us so I lay it down

He had a set, we would've whiffed and guy with flush draw gets there

 

[Stufflymcstuff]

J and T is not the nuts - that’s a terrible flop for your hand. You have 4 cards to second nuts and 4 cards to the nuts, and even if you hit and are good you tend to have not much more than 50% equity because of how often you’re chopping / getting free rolled.

Also not sure about limp calling a 20bb 3bet. It’s not lighting money on fire or anything but there’s very little room to maneuver post flop and you have a hand that’s clearly an equity dog vs the limp raisers range / should be a fair bit worse than the buttons range.

 

[Anthony Martino]

J and T is not the nuts - that’s a terrible flop for your hand. You have 4 cards to second nuts and 4 cards to the nuts, and even if you hit and are good you tend to have not much more than 50% equity because of how often you’re chopping / getting free rolled.

Also not sure about limp calling a 20bb 3bet. It’s not lighting money on fire or anything but there’s very little room to maneuver post flop and you have a hand that’s clearly an equity dog vs the limp raisers range / should be a fair bit worse than the buttons range.

Given this lineup and the multiway to the flop I think my preflop call is fine, my hand plays well against the ranges

But agree the flop is a fold