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My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (27 Viewers)

Anthony Martino said:
what a whirlwind night. Buy in for 1K, build it to 2K, call a raise to 35 with AA23 one suit, maniac makes it 150, two callers, I repot to 800 with a bit over 1K behind, he just calls.

Flop T75 rainbow. I have half a pot sized bet since there's like 2K out there so I get it in, he agrees to go twice and he has 9643 DOUBLE S00TED! Makes straights on both runouts to stack me, of course.

He winds up having 9K in front of him at one point, and others have 2-4K so I'm like, ok, I may not win anything this session, but I can certainly enjoy watching one of these fuckers lose thousands when I minbuy and get them fighting each other to try and isolate me postflop.

So I buyin for 200 and never expected it, but spin that shit up to $2,856!!! In for $1200 and out for $2,856, the cats are gonna eat this week!

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Way to make a come back!!
 
Anthony Martino said:
He winds up having 9K in front of him at one point, and others have 2-4K so I'm like, ok, I may not win anything this session, but I can certainly enjoy watching one of these fuckers lose thousands when I minbuy and get them fighting each other to try and isolate me postflop.

So I buyin for 200 and never expected it, but spin that shit up to $2,856!!! In for $1200 and out for $2,856, the cats are gonna eat this week!
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OK, so serious question from a rec to a pro....do you feel like you missed out on a ton of value here with the min rebuy? Assuming you could have made significantly more than your impressive turnaround had you bought in for max.....or do you feel like you would have had to call it a night if you didnt min buy.

I play a bunch of plo online at micro stakes and have always questioned whether buying in for bigger games at less than max was worth it, or smaller games for max. I have never played live for more than $200 buyins though.
 
grebe said:
OK, so serious question from a rec to a pro....do you feel like you missed out on a ton of value here with the min rebuy? Assuming you could have made significantly more than your impressive turnaround had you bought in for max.....or do you feel like you would have had to call it a night if you didnt min buy.

I play a bunch of plo online at micro stakes and have always questioned whether buying in for bigger games at less than max was worth it, or smaller games for max. I have never played live for more than $200 buyins though.
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Rolf Slotboom has a book detailing his short buyin strategy very well

In a game where most everyone has big stacks and the game is playing ultra aggro, you can get a nice bonus with the small buyin

This is because you risk very little but still can 3-5x your stack easily.

It allows you to commit to a hand without getting bet off your equity, while the guys with deeper stacks postflop may bet others out

Generally I prefer to play deeper stacked poker

But last night the game shifted and they were straddling to 20 and the maniac was constantly making it 100-200 preflop

Still, I had to win multiple all-ins and I was risking larger stacks than 200 as I progressed

This is a match the stack game, so I could've matched the 9k stack of the maniac (who was complaining about losing 45k sports betting)

But it's tough to beat deep pockets, so I opted for the strategy where I can 3-5x my stack while only having to beat 1 hand at showdown a lot of the time

Had I bought in bigger, I may have won more. But it's also possible opponents don't pay me off because I have the bigger stack, or I get pushed off my equity because I don't feel comfortable comitting my bigger stack in some spots
 
In addition, my next to last hand of the night I had already rebuilt my stack to 1400+ so I had a profit on the session and could've locked it up

But was willing to risk it all against the maniac and managed to run well

I had AQQT against his JJT7 and we check the 965 flip, we check the J turn and I hit the fortunate river 8 and he shoves into me

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Playing the 500k gtd tourney tmrw 11am so skipped the crazy variance table with the 30k stacks and played a $5 all dble board bomb pot one instead

Managed to win about a grand tonight, tmrw trying to bag for Day 2 with 1st usually 100 grand

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Anthony Martino said:
He's got over 600k subscribers and is the gold standard of poker vlogging success everyone else is hoping to achieve

Although I have noticed in more recent vlogs he's got some mis-reg shining through when he comments on hands his opponrnts show up with
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Know what? I’m doubling down on this. Tripling down actually. I’m shocked if he’s actually the gold standard of poker clogging. After watching more of him:
1. He’s uninteresting, personality-wise
2. He doesn’t seem to be particularly smart or good at poker.
3. His presentation isn’t noteworthy either.

Whether or not I have a lot I could learn from him, I don’t feel like he’s very good at teaching it. Entertainment-wise, he’s practically vegetable lasagna.
I totally don’t see his appeal, except maybe as an everyman?
 
upNdown said:
Know what? I’m doubling down on this. Tripling down actually. I’m shocked if he’s actually the gold standard of poker clogging. After watching more of him:
1. He’s uninteresting, personality-wise
2. He doesn’t seem to be particularly smart or good at poker.
3. His presentation isn’t noteworthy either.

Whether or not I have a lot I could learn from him, I don’t feel like he’s very good at teaching it. Entertainment-wise, he’s practically vegetable lasagna.
I totally don’t see his appeal, except maybe as an everyman?
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Look man, I can't speak for the masses. I guess he comes across as humble, has been open about his profits and losses and as far as I know he's got the most subscribers of ANY poker vlogger, is a WPT Ambassador, owns part of The Lodge, etc
 
Anthony Martino said:
Look man, I can't speak for the masses. I guess he comes across as humble, has been open about his profits and losses and as far as I know he's got the most subscribers of ANY poker vlogger, is a WPT Ambassador, owns part of The Lodge, etc
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Well let the masses speak!
Who likes Brad Owen? Why?
 
We've lost AK to 33 that limp-called our raise OOP (we should've bet Q turn)

Then we raise AQ in HJ, button calls with 22. Flop J76 we both check

I bet K turn, he calls, we both check J river

Down to 60k at break, avg 65k. Going to 1/1.5k next
 

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