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My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (20 Viewers)

Tech question:

Are you using a cellphone or a go-pro type camera? The quality is great, and the angles are too. I'm just wondering what I would need if I were to try and record my hands in home games.

Perhaps a poker vlog on "how to lose". People love the sad-sacks in the qualifying rounds of Idol, and the guy that gets hit in the nuts on home video shows, so perhaps I could find a following. (though really, I just want to see if I could record hands for later discussion)
 
Poker Zombie said:
Tech question:

Are you using a cellphone or a go-pro type camera? The quality is great, and the angles are too. I'm just wondering what I would need if I were to try and record my hands in home games.

Perhaps a poker vlog on "how to lose". People love the sad-sacks in the qualifying rounds of Idol, and the guy that gets hit in the nuts on home video shows, so perhaps I could find a following. (though really, I just want to see if I could record hands for later discussion)
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Whatever it is fits into a shirt pocket and not a pants pocket, FWIW.
 
Poker Zombie said:
Tech question:

Are you using a cellphone or a go-pro type camera? The quality is great, and the angles are too. I'm just wondering what I would need if I were to try and record my hands in home games.

Perhaps a poker vlog on "how to lose". People love the sad-sacks in the qualifying rounds of Idol, and the guy that gets hit in the nuts on home video shows, so perhaps I could find a following. (though really, I just want to see if I could record hands for later discussion)
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I'm using the camera on my phone, a Samsung Galaxy S21 Ultra. Then I have a "pocket jacks" stand that I use to hold it in place to record.

https://www.amazon.com/Pocket-Jack-Large-Phone-Holder/dp/B091DZQQ1F
 
Highli99 said:
Mathematically, it’s a fantastic way to play poker if you’re adequately rolled
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Sure, but I can't afford to flip for 1k per hand every hamd

And it's terrible overall because it's short-sighted

The deep pockets are slaughtering the sheep instead of shearing them, which impacts their long-term profitability as well
 
Anthony Martino said:
Sure, but I can't afford to flip for 1k per hand every hamd

And it's terrible overall because it's short-sighted

The deep pockets are slaughtering the sheep instead of shearing them, which impacts their long-term profitability as well
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Playing within one’s roll is a reality, and it illustrates the advantage of being rolled deep enough for the stakes being played.

In this example, the deep pockets are using their roll to gain advantage by pushing skilled players with equity but nit andequate rolls out of the pot. That’s leveraging a roll to overcome skill gap.

If the players in question are both rolled and skilled, they are probably crushing the game.

It’s possible they are skinning instead of fleecing bad players. But you won’t know which until the game dries up. I’m continuously amazed how much some people are okay losing, and also some of those fish are not worried about losses if they are getting action and having fun.
 
Highli99 said:
Playing within one’s roll is a reality, and it illustrates the advantage of being rolled deep enough for the stakes being played.

In this example, the deep pockets are using their roll to gain advantage by pushing skilled players with equity but nit andequate rolls out of the pot. That’s leveraging a roll to overcome skill gap.

If the players in question are both rolled and skilled, they are probably crushing the game.

It’s possible they are skinning instead of fleecing bad players. But you won’t know which until the game dries up. I’m continuously amazed how much some people are okay losing, and also some of those fish are not worried about losses if they are getting action and having fun.
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Playing PLO with essentially 5-100bb in your stack is just silly
 
Having 26% equity in a six-way pot = 0.093 +EV. Or, +$560 per $1,000 wagered.

Bets on an American roulette wheel are a negative 0.053 EV. Or - $53 per $1,000 bet < single zero wheels cost the players "only" $26 per $1,000>.

That is more than $600 per $1000 bet difference. I can't see the comps making up anything close to that difference.
 
DrStrange said:
Having 26% equity in a six-way pot = 0.093 +EV. Or, +$560 per $1,000 wagered.

Bets on an American roulette wheel are a negative 0.053 EV. Or - $53 per $1,000 bet < single zero wheels cost the players "only" $26 per $1,000>.

That is more than $600 per $1000 bet difference. I can't see the comps making up anything close to that difference.
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Don't try to math my hyperbolic hypothetical!
 
Goldfish said:
I am not sure that I see a problem here. I would fly down for this game. Flips are my sweet spot.
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Well if you're properly rolled to flip for a thousand or more per hand sure. But it's the entry-level game, it should be protected so that newcomers who want to try out and learn PLO aren't just pushed out of the poker ecosystem by guys making 1/2/5 play like 80/160 with 1K stacks
 
Anthony Martino said:
Well if you're properly rolled to flip for a thousand or more per hand sure. But it's the entry-level game, it should be protected so that newcomers who want to try out and learn PLO aren't just pushed out of the poker ecosystem by guys making 1/2/5 play like 80/160 with 1K stacks
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Oooorrrrr…….. they run good in flips, get hooked for life and dump a million to you over the long term………
 
Anthony Martino said:
Well if you're properly rolled to flip for a thousand or more per hand sure. But it's the entry-level game, it should be protected so that newcomers who want to try out and learn PLO aren't just pushed out of the poker ecosystem by guys making 1/2/5 play like 80/160 with 1K stacks
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It would push out the little guys (like me), but you're talking about Texas-sized bankrolls. People that have little regard for money and who will claim it was "just their luck" when you suck out on them, hitting your 44-outer on the river.

Sure, you won't have nearly as many sheep to shear, but the ones you do have so much "wool", you'll never actually slaughter them.
 
Chopped 8 ways. My 7th final table in 11 tries

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My 64th vlog is now up with some footage from my recent final table in the PLO tourney at The Lodge as well as some mixed game action from Georgetown Poker (be aware I was VERY rusty returning to mixed games and was playing some games brand new to me as well so played pretty awful but will hopefully help me play less awful after review)

 
Was doing very well last night in the PLO "freeroll", had more than 2x the average (had over 260k)

Then there's a gazillion limpers and I pot from the button to 45k with AA33 one suit

Everyones folding until this kid wearing a big watch and chains like he's a teenaged boy in the 90's calls off a third of his stack, which causes another guy to call leaving himself 12k

Flop is 5T5 which looks like a safe flop for Aces

Nope, kid is in there with Q875 double s00ted! (Yes re-entry period is over)

So he finds the full double through me given there is under 1:1 SPR

I never manage to recover, busting in 13th, almost another final table, le sigh

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Rakrul said:
So both The Lodge and Georgetown is using china clays? Lodge looks like Tina hybrids (?).
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I don't think they're china clays, they feel more plastic I think but Paulson ain't gonna sell to TX clubs and many rooms tend to not approach chip quality like those on this forum would.

They'll spend over half a million dollars for their custom livestream though....
 

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