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My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (31 Viewers)
- Thread starter Anthony Martino
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Whoever the artist is needs practice with his freakin' hands. These look like aliens.
Rakrul
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AI doesn't know how many hands a human has.
I like the simplicity of this design. It’s also not jumbled and pretty clear which is great.
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Anthony Martino
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This is unlisted just for testing
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Anthony Martino
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My latest vlog is now live including an update on the opening and my involvement with Poker House Austin!
Poker Zombie
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Congrats on the new room and the new job!
However, since you will be getting paid as a cardroom manager working for a big cardroom firm, I can no longer refer to you as a "poker pro".
However, since you will be getting paid as a cardroom manager working for a big cardroom firm, I can no longer refer to you as a "poker pro".
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The new graphics look terrific!
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Anthony Martino
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Ty so much!
Despite the holidays and short notice we had 4 full games running (two 1/2 nlh, a 1/2/5 ROE and a 10/20 O8 with half kill)
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Anthony Martino
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My first vlog from poker house is now live!
GetUrShineBox
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Love following along in a tournament, more of this please!
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Anthony Martino
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I don't play many tournaments but this was certainly a fun one for me, running 15K up to over 75K at one point. Crowd was fun and it was just nice to finally get an opportunity to get back on the felt again.
Hoping to play some PLO cash games soon
Woo welcome back!
Was meaning to tell you, I played at a 50c/50c dealer's choice game and we played 7stud/5stud/5draw/pineapple/holdem, whatever we wanted ... but when I called Omaha the host said "Absolutely not." and the entire table agreed. I wasn't even sure if they would know the game but the old timers at the table looked at me disgusted lol. They had been hurt before by this game.
WedgeRock
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I had to do a double take...
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Anthony Martino
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I'm, uh............selling action on this run, yeah, that's the ticket!
Jimulacrum
Full House
C'mon, don't doomswitch the guy!
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Anthony Martino
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It's been 7+ months since I've put out a vlog.
I had been putting out a weekly vlog for over a year. It'll take me anywhere from 1.5-2 days of editing (not full days, but enough as I can stand each day) to make one vlog. So I'd be spending 6-8 days of my time each month and Youtube was only giving me under $100 in revenue from the channel.
To top it all off, there's a lot of vloggers out there cheating the system. Fake subscribers and views, bots, etc to make themselves appear more popular than they really are (I'm looking at you WolfGang Poker!) So it was further discouraging to put the work in and watch people gaming the system and faking it til they make it.
But I've had a lot of new people finding the channel, and others who watch seeing me here in Austin saying they miss the content.
I have over 2500 subscribers on the channel, and a lot of the other PLO vloggers disappeared too, not many making content these days.
I still have months of backlog worth of footage from awhile back I can make content out of, and just recently started filming again.
I'm going to put together three full vlogs and accompanying shorts to go with them ahead of time, so I've got a 3-week content cushion and won't feel as much pressure to get content ready as I previously did. Should start uploading again in 1.5-2 weeks I believe.
In addition, just made a new vlog intro clip:
Looking forward to get back into content production and see if I can't grow this channel into something worth all the effort that goes into making the content.
I had been putting out a weekly vlog for over a year. It'll take me anywhere from 1.5-2 days of editing (not full days, but enough as I can stand each day) to make one vlog. So I'd be spending 6-8 days of my time each month and Youtube was only giving me under $100 in revenue from the channel.
To top it all off, there's a lot of vloggers out there cheating the system. Fake subscribers and views, bots, etc to make themselves appear more popular than they really are (I'm looking at you WolfGang Poker!) So it was further discouraging to put the work in and watch people gaming the system and faking it til they make it.
But I've had a lot of new people finding the channel, and others who watch seeing me here in Austin saying they miss the content.
I have over 2500 subscribers on the channel, and a lot of the other PLO vloggers disappeared too, not many making content these days.
I still have months of backlog worth of footage from awhile back I can make content out of, and just recently started filming again.
I'm going to put together three full vlogs and accompanying shorts to go with them ahead of time, so I've got a 3-week content cushion and won't feel as much pressure to get content ready as I previously did. Should start uploading again in 1.5-2 weeks I believe.
In addition, just made a new vlog intro clip:
Looking forward to get back into content production and see if I can't grow this channel into something worth all the effort that goes into making the content.
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Great, not many people can make PLO not only digestable.....Cannot wait
FDLmold
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Subscribed both here AND at googTube
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Anthony Martino
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What sucks is he was in town at The Lodge for a meetup game and their other promos as they fight with TCH Austin. I managed to play with him in the mean streets of PLO one night and won some pots off him as he was just clicking buttons and then he'd say "I don't have a very good hand" but still call off against me.
Unfortunately it wasn't until the day AFTER I played with him that I decided I was going to start vlogging again, so I didn't get the benefit of getting footage of playing with him that would likely snag me some decent views.
The Lodge is also starting to add PLO into their livestream schedule so I'm an alternate for their next one coming up in November. Getting on the livestream could give me some decent exposure too
elemeno
Two Pair
What sucks is he was in town at The Lodge for a meetup game and their other promos as they fight with TCH Austin. I managed to play with him in the mean streets of PLO one night and won some pots off him as he was just clicking buttons and then he'd say "I don't have a very good hand" but still call off against me.
Unfortunately it wasn't until the day AFTER I played with him that I decided I was going to start vlogging again, so I didn't get the benefit of getting footage of playing with him that would likely snag me some decent views.
The Lodge is also starting to add PLO into their livestream schedule so I'm an alternate for their next one coming up in November. Getting on the livestream could give me some decent exposure too
Are you still doing that…other thing with at that…other card house?
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Anthony Martino
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Nope, they sacked the GM and then told me they wanted to do our Grand Opening the upcoming weekend, which would give me one week to promote it...........AND it was when The Lodge was running their 6-flight 100K freeroll plus all their other promos.
Not enough time to promote it, and a terrible decision to try and compete with their events.
But the cherry on top of the shit sundae was that they also told me they were going to start taking up to a $5 rake from cash game pots. That's 100% illegal here in TX. There are rooms throughout the state (primarily in Houston) that are doing it and getting away with it, but I'm not risking it and putting myself in harms way so I resigned.
The Lodge and TCH Austin are the two players in the market now, and the promo wars between them are great for the players. I think the problem they're not realizing is they're both fighting over the same pie, the same pool of players.
I still firmly believe there's additional pies in the Austin market to be tapped into, but the rooms leadership seem intent on fighting over the same group of misregs and grinders rather than mining the local populace for newer recreational players.
TCH has a much nicer room by miles, I don't think there's really anything the Lodge can do to their existing property to make it even come close to competing in comfort/ambiance.
That being said, TCH is not without its issues as well. Their Grand Opening saw them run a 30K GTD tournament on opening day that I cashed in. But they went from $5 pay jumps to $10 pay jumps and then back to $5 pay jumps for two levels, which was odd.
A week after their grand opening they hadn't updated their info page on poker atlas and were still promoting the grand opening on there.
Food service in my experience has been rough. The food is good, prices decent, but service has been the sticking point. It's like being in a casino poker room and trying to get service, few and far between. I had to send my food back twice because they kept messing it up. And while there are a few exceptions to the rule, the vast majority of the wait staff have come across as pretty miserable.
The dealers and floor staff have been pretty solid, as well as the front desk. Although a few hiccups I've experienced:
1. I'm on transfer list to another table, somehow they skip over me and move a different player. I'm next up and a new player is seated at my table. One of the floor guys goes up to him and lets him know there's a seat open at the table I'm next to transfer to, so I had to speak up to avoid getting skipped again (I believe the front desk is supposed to handle this stuff, but maybe the floor guy was good friends with this player and trying to help his buddy out and circumventing their protocol?)
2. You're supposed to go to the front desk to get your table and seat assignment, then when you show up at the table your name will appear on the table and the dealer just scans your card and marks you as arrived. I was playing at my table with a random dude just kinda circling our table like a shark. As soon as a seat opened up he promptly sat down. There was a wait list, but he just jumped the line. The dealer took the path of least resistance, I could see the dealer pause when he noticed no one had been put into the just vacated seat by the front desk, but then he took the guys card and scanned him in anyway.
3. We had two tables of PLO running and my table had 3 open seats, the other table 1 open seat. They call for a 3rd table to start, only four people show up, perfect to fill the two existing games. But does the floor do that? Nope, they wait and wait until the new game gets 5-6 players and they keep it and my table short-handed, so I just racked up and left.
In their defense, TCH has gone from running a 13-table room which typically saw 4-6 games daily to a 46-table room that's been getting 10-20 games daily.
Their tournament schedule is still pretty stale, a carryover from the previous location. They'll need to step that game up to compete with The Lodge who still dominates the tournament market locally.
JustinInMN
4 of a Kind
...Getting on the livestream could give me some decent exposure too
Kain8
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If the amount of tables has tripled, then the staff (brushes, runners, managers, excluding dealers) needs to go up in a proportional amount to maintain at least adequate service levels. Given the issues you've experienced, it does not sound like they're even making an effort to do that, rather they're taking the membership fee revenue to continue the promo war.
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Anthony Martino
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Oh they've definitely staffed up. They didn't have a restaurant before, so running one is brand new to the folks here in Austin.
I've seen them operating with 4-5 floors staffed while The Lodge will typically have 2.
I think it's just growing pains as they adjust to a much larger and more encompassing operation that is experiencing levels of traffic they aren't accustomed to.
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Anthony Martino
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Enjoyed your streams/video!!! Hopefully you find ways to continue to edit them faster so it’s more beneficial on your end.
LotsOfChips
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What's the over/under on # of weeks before the police raid?
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