My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (12 Viewers)

[Anthony Martino]

The hands that got me last night

I call a raise with

Flop is

I get it in, I'm up against and we go twice, I don't get there on either board with my straight or flush draws

With pots frequently being raised to 25-40 preflop and people getting it in four ways regularly when I rebuy I do the $200. I limp repot all-in holding and get called in multiple spots, including the nitwit with So I've got a shot to quadruple up my stack on this hand, board runs out

and he wins with the wheel

I again buyin for the $200 and limp repot all-in holding and he limps for $5, calls a raise to $40 and then my $200 shove holding

and the flop comes out and my flush draw is no good and no 7 comes to save me either. Pretty frustrating watching this guy play like absolute trash and bink two pots with $800+ in them.

Off today, back at it this coming week.

 

[Poker Zombie]

I again buyin for the $200 and limp repot all-in holding and he limps for $5, calls a raise to $40 and then my $200 shove holding

It's not pretty, but nitwit had like 40% preflop. You just gotta expect that they are going to occasionally have a winning session playing sub-optimal, and that keeps them coming back.

...and their continued play is what keeps a roof over your head.

We all have to deal with nitwits. Bosses, clients, customers, opponents - they're all the same.

 

[Anthony Martino]

It's not pretty, but nitwit had like 40% preflop. You just gotta expect that they are going to occasionally have a winning session playing sub-optimal, and that keep them coming back.

...and their continued play is what keeps a roof over your head.

We all have to deal with nitwits. Bosses, clients, customers, opponents - they're all the same.

He was calling off with that hand facing 4-5 other players, wasn't just headsup against me lol

 

[Poker Zombie]

He was calling off with that hand facing 4-5 other players, wasn't just headsup against me lol

40% is almost a coin flip.

A coin flip wins 1 : 2 times.

4-5 players means 4-5 times the payout.

Even if he loses half the time, he is finishing up. It's math. Bad math, but math...

 

[Anthony Martino]

40% is almost a coin flip.

A coin flip wins 1 : 2 times.

4-5 players means 4-5 times the payout.

Even if he loses half the time, he is finishing up. It's math. Bad math, but math...
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Who am I to argue with such brazen logic?!?!

I withdraw my formal complaint

 

[Anthony Martino]

Three tables running and they just called a 4th, got a seat, gl us!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Down about $100 calling raises and whiffing flops. Some decent action players in the game

 

[Anthony Martino]

We call a rause with multiway to a flop of and fold to a bet

We call a raise with and fold to a bet on a flop

So far no pots won, but we'll get there

 

[Anthony Martino]

We have and call a raise to 35, then another limp repots and the original raiser repots, we fold

Flop and original raiser has

 

[Anthony Martino]

I'm about to request all 2's, 3's and 4's are removed from the deck, seems to be primarily what I've been dealt

Still no pots won, only stuck $140 at least

 

[Anthony Martino]

I won a fucking pot! It wasn't huge, I'm still stuck, but I won a pot finally lol

 

[Anthony Martino]

we call a $20 raise with

Multiway to a flop of

We pot, one caller

Turn

We pot all-in, he calls and only runs once

River

He limped in and called a raise with

You're the best sir. Taking it in, -$1000 on the day

 

[Mojo1312]

I won a fucking pot! It wasn't huge, I'm still stuck, but I won a pot finally lol

There is a brag thread for such moments when you want to celebrate your good fortune: https://www.pokerchipforum.com/threads/mediocre-poker-winnings-thread.46552/

 

[Geremie]

we call a $20 raise with

Multiway to a flop of

We pot, one caller

Turn

We pot all-in, he calls and only runs once

River

He limped in and called a raise with

You're the best sir. Taking it in, -$1000 on the day

Gotta play it…it’s a pat Ba-doooooo-gi!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Gotta play it…it’s a pat Ba-doooooo-gi!

The ole' unsuited double gapper is a clear call of raises preflop

 

[Anthony Martino]

Went for a little skate therapy tonight, feeling fresh and ready to go, playing the late session.

We get a seat on the 5/5/10 game, decent lineup since the tighter daytime regs aren't here, recognize three action players and there's a couple of players I don't know, LFG!

 

[Anthony Martino]

These guys are regularly straddling to $20 and $40 preflop, we wait patiently and find a good spot, get it in preflop with against and the board runs out

At least the guy had a legit hand and not some garbage, we rebuy another $1500.

 

[Anthony Martino]

It doesn't take long to get involved in our next big hand

Been doing lots of folding as we can't get too crazy with all these straddles and raises. We finally pickup a decent hand in the CO, MP maniac raises to $125 and we call, four ways to a flop



BINGO BANGO BONGO VINCE!


Checked to the maniac who bets $400, we pot all-in and he calls with and only runs once

Turn giving him more outs

River and we make the nuts and double! Score one for the good guys!

 

[Anthony Martino]

We're UTG+2 with and call a raise to 75, five-ways to a flop of:

and we have to fold to a big bet.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Been bleeding chips for a bit, calling raises but whiffing flops when this hand goes down

It's been restraddled to 80 preflop by UTG and we're in the BB sitting on around $2200 with

There are four callers and we just call, as we don't want to bloat the pot and give away our hand strength OOP against this field, plus there's a good chance the straddler will raise, maybe pickup some calls and we can spring the trap.

Sure enough he does, after we call he announces POT! which is something like $560 or so, there's one caller and then we repot all-in for $2200. They both get it in cause, you know, everyones got a $2200+ hand.

They only go once, we're up against:

UTG Straddler:
MP: (some guys just want to watch the world burn?)

Flop is so we're "ahead" but UTG is wrapped all around it and if I had to guess he's likely the equity favorite on this flop

Turn: (so now MP picks up equity, with a straight and the only flush draw, although we have a blocker to the flush at least. In our mind we're screaming HOLD....HOLD! like Mel Gibson in Braveheart)

River: and UTG makes his straight and scoops a pretty big pot

I can see his double suited middle gapper run-down playing here, so at least he was the winner and not MP, no clue what MP was thinking except that he figured we were going high so he'd go low?

-3K on todays session, and while I had another loss it didn't affect me as much as a lot of the previous ones. Probably because I was losing to hands that were reasonable and not complete shit like I had been running bad against.

Plus it was nice to win that double up hand earlier, feels like forever since I've been able to scoop up a nice pot and stack chips. Back at it Saturday night.

 

[BonScot]

In our mind we're screaming HOLD....HOLD! like Mel Gibson in Braveheart

I was along for the ride there (blue face paint on and everything)… until that bastarding river card. Ah well there’s always next time.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Wow, this is definetly one of those crazy spots. I knew on the flop I liked the double suited rundown, but didn't expect I would be behind preflop and on the turn as well

 

[Anthony Martino]

Playing the 2/2/5 and we're on the 5/5/10 list. There's also a 10/10/25 list but it's small and not sure if it'll run tonight.

 

[Anthony Martino]

The CO is the $5 rock, we're in the HJ. The button limps, the SB and BB limp, UTG+2 limps, we limp holding

The CO pots it and surprisingly everyone folds, we repot to get it all-in and agree to run it twice.

First board:
Second board:

He has

So we make the nuts on the first board and he hits his club flush on the 2nd board but it fills us up and we scoop!

 

[Anthony Martino]

We're up a little bit when we get involved in this hand. We're in MP with The rock is in the BB and UTG+2 makes it 20 to go, we call, HJ and button call plus the BB, so five ways to a flop of:



BB checks, UTG pots for 105, we consider raising, but we don't block hearts and we do have some straight possibilities as well, so want to see a safe turn card first if we can. The button calls but everyone else folds so three ways to the turn:



UTG pots again, we rip it in, the button folds and UTG gets his stack in but only goes once.

He flopped the nfd and the turn gave him a combo draw as he holds

Fhe river brings in the front-door flush with the and he wins. Fortunately we cover him so we don't get stacked, but down a little bit now

 

[Anthony Martino]

They called the 10/10/25 list but not enough players showed so kept my seat in the other game

 

[Anthony Martino]

Three tables of 2/2/5 running but no list and game is so-so, decide to take it in with a small $373 loss on the night. Back at it next week.

 

[DrDysfunctional]

I saw this plate the other day and immediately thought of @Anthony Martino

 

[Anthony Martino]

I saw this plate the other day and immediately thought of @Anthony Martino
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This man will be hearing from my lawyers!

 

[tabletalker7]

This man will be hearing from my lawyers!

But I thought your plate was "IAMSH0RT" ....