My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (31 Viewers)

[Anthony Martino]

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Seat change? Table change?

Why? It's perfect, he's LAG. I can limp short stacked, he raises, others call, I rip it in

 

[Anthony Martino]

Better shot of his stack

 

[Rakrul]

Wait lists

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What does the ^ mean? Also, what's w/rock?

 

[inca911]

This is The Rock. From my memory of playing with him at @Payback 's game: he causes any UTG player who currently owns him to place in a mandatory straddle, which is done by putting The Rock into the pot. The winner of that hand takes possession of The Rock, and must straddle when they are next UTG. The Rock is worth $X dollars at cashout, therefore he carries that value into the pot with him when placed into the pot. Typically The Rock is first bought by the house, to drive more action, larger pots, and more rake.

Only one Rock in this picture is real, don't be fooled by Rock-ette imitators:

“ ^ “ simply refers to the post above, without fully quoting the post. No clue how that casino uses it on their board.

 

[Anthony Martino]

What does the ^ mean? Also, what's w/rock?

Assuming time rake games?

A rock is a forced straddle the winner of the previous pot posts. No additional straddles are permitted

So 2/5 with $10 rock and 5/10 with $25 rock

 

[Anthony Martino]

Just called the 2/5 PLO so going to play that, sneak my $500 profit out

 

[raynmanas]

Big stack is raising to 100 pre with Q877

and hitting i assume

 

[Anthony Martino]

and hitting i assume

Yes, crushing souls lol

 

[Anthony Martino]

2/5 was meh, no action. They just called the 1/2 AND put us in the private room since they have no tables with the tourney running

 

[Anthony Martino]

Asian maniac named Vong or Bong sits down with $200, raises to $25 after a few callers of a $5 straddle

I pot to $95 to iso. Get it in, flop top two but he rivers a straight

 

[Anthony Martino]

I call a preflop raise with and flop comes



I pot and the original raiser plus another guy calls

Turn

Bingo bango bongo Vince! First guy checks, I check, original raiser pots it with K9xx and is drawing dead, he gets stacked

 

[Anthony Martino]

The fish left and were replaced with tight players, no action so bounced.

Was a good day today

 

[Anthony Martino]

I want to be this guy when I grow up

 

[monkeydog]

I want to be this guy when I grow up

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I need to get some Koala card cappers too.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Since I was able to get out early enough Saturday I hit up the local skating rink and put up a video here (recently updated the thread since the facebook link wasn't playing the video, so uploaded it to youtube)

https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/my-fat-ass-on-skates.69954/

I may be old, and I may be fat, but on skates I'm still a smooth cat!

 

[Anthony Martino]

And away we go!

 

[Geremie]

And away we go!

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Where’s your koala?!?

Actually, you should get miniature figurines of the two Cubans as your chip/card cappers

 

[Anthony Martino]

WHEEEE!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Got it in as a slight favorite but didn't win

Was up a few hundred, now down $700 but game is good

 

[Anthony Martino]

Was stuck pretty good but almost unstuck

 

[Poker Zombie]

Question...

Have you done your taxes yet? As a first year poker pro, I was wondering if you found it more frustrating than paying taxes as a regular employee (with regular monies taken out along the way).

As this was the first year where my investment income surpassed my actual paycheck, it felt like a massive belly blow - wondering if your results were similar.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Question...

Have you done your taxes yet? As a first year poker pro, I was wondering if you found it more frustrating than paying taxes as a regular employee (with regular monies taken out along the way).

As this was the first year where my investment income surpassed my actual paycheck, it felt like a massive belly blow - wondering if your results were similar.

I have a friend who is a CPA, but yeah, self-employment taxes suck. But with my hourly and more freedom it is still worth it

 

[Chester Copperpot]

Have you changed your game/table selection strategy since you’ve started this (aside from not playing with Cubans)?

 

[Anthony Martino]

Have you changed your game/table selection strategy since you’ve started this (aside from not playing with Cubans)?

Not really. Best for my style is lots of loose passives who pay off post-flop

I try to avoid tables where too many people are trying to make the game play bigger with frequent straddles or raises, because I'm giving up my post-flop edge if they're trying to get stacks in pre

Not that games like that can't be profitable, but they are much swingier, with higher highs and lower lows

 

[FDLmold]

It looks like they took away the plexiglass kennel dividers, or did this casino never have them?

 

[Anthony Martino]

It looks like they took away the plexiglass kennel dividers, or did this casino never have them?

TGT never had them, just Hard Rock

 

[Bluegrass Poker]

TGT never had them, just Hard Rock

Just wanted to say how much I love this thread. I’m sure many of us have dreamed of doing this but you are doing it. Thanks for sharing the ups and downs and showing what the life of a grinder is really like.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Just wanted to say how much I love this thread. I’m sure many of us have dreamed of doing this but you are doing it. Thanks for sharing the ups and downs and showing what the life of a grinder is really like.

Thanks, glad to share the journey with everyone!

 

[moose]

Just wanted to say how much I love this thread. I’m sure many of us have dreamed of doing this but you are doing it. Thanks for sharing the ups and downs and showing what the life of a grinder is really like.

+1 Favourite thread

 

[Anthony Martino]

Some changes to PLO

Not sure if having the rock on a game prevents restraddles or if they'te allowed with a rock also in play.

Going to find out. The unlimited restraddles could get nuts at 5/5 and above, not sure the poker economy can weather that