My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (64 Viewers)

[Anthony Martino]

Took a trip south of Austin to San Antonio and played at The Big Blind. The design in this room is sick, if you're ever in town I def recommend you check it out in person

 

[Anthony Martino]

My first time playing at San Antonio Card House, they get multiple 5/5 Big O games running daily

 

[ekricket]

Also, Texas is fucking HUGE. You can drive for 7-8 hours and still be in the same state.

I went to high school in the northwest corner of the Texas panhandle. It was closer to drive to Canada than it was to the other end of the state.

 

[DrStrange]

It's nice to see a hi/low episode once in a while. Agree 1000% about the need for the winning players to curate a good time for the fun seeking, losing player pool. -=- DrStrange

 

[Poker Zombie]

I went to high school in the northwest corner of the Texas panhandle. It was closer to drive to Canada than it was to the other end of the state.

...and yet you could fit roughly 2.5 Texas's in one Alaska.

 

[ekricket]

...and yet you could fit roughly 2.5 Texas's in one Alaska.

lol superimpose the livable parts of Alaska on Texas. Although I can attest that some parts of Texas should be unlivable.

 

[Anthony Martino]

Massive Bad Beat Jackpot hit in my club!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Back in the 5/5 Streets in San Antonio in this weeks vlog

 

[Anthony Martino]

Donald Trump tried stealing my blinds!

 

[SootedFish]

Texas is the one other place Ive thought could be fun. After watching some of Fireman Scott’s videos it looks like action city. He plays super loose but supposedly a big winner, must be good games. Greg Vail also talks about going there to play Pot Limit Big O. I’ve actually been playing more Big O online than anything else.

As a former texan until very recently this is accurate. Check out Wolfgang Poker playing in my (former) local card room The Fort in Aledo TX

 

[Anthony Martino]

Played the 2/2 PLO at The Lodge in this weeks vlog

 

[Machine]

Name checks out, but I'd prefer a purple tie, better contrast.



p.s. it feels like a son of man rendition

in fact, I would have went with unsuitedfish

 

[extreme517]

Played the 2/2 PLO at The Lodge in this weeks vlog

I have to laugh at how this thread is titled "My Journey As A Professional poker player" and you get your @$$ kicked in what seems to be 9 out of 10 sessions and bitch about everything while playing the lowest stakes available. Tell me you have a day job at this point.

 

[Anthony Martino]

I have to laugh at how this thread is titled "My Journey As A Professional poker player" and you get your @$$ kicked in what seems to be 9 out of 10 sessions and bitch about everything while playing the lowest stakes available. Tell me you have a day job at this point.

I play poker for a living. When I play poker, other people make a living!

I mean, you did see me get it in for stacks with 68% equity and then lose TWO runouts?

 

[extreme517]

I play poker for a living. When I play poker, other people make a living!

I mean, you did see me get it in for stacks with 68% equity and then lose TWO runouts?

Yessir, I saw that! Omaha is a crazy game!!!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Final tabled the Big O at TCH Austin last time, can I do it in back-to-back months?

 

[DrStrange]

Haven't seen a stream in a couple of weeks. Hoping nothing bad has happened -=- DrStrange

 

[extreme517]

Haven't seen a stream in a couple of weeks. Hoping nothing bad has happened -=- DrStrange

It looks like there are 3 new videos since the one above, so Anthony is alive and kicking!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Haven't seen a stream in a couple of weeks. Hoping nothing bad has happened -=- DrStrange

Taking a much-needed break from the live vlogs (editing is a major grind) but still alive and kicking. Still putting out the online vlog each week and will likely have another live vlog in the next 2-3 weeks. Appreciate the concern!

 

[Anthony Martino]

Happy turkey-day everyone! Here's this weeks vlog:

 

[Anthony Martino]

There's been a lot of drama in poker recently and I've got a lot to say!

 

[Lil Tuna]

There's been a lot of drama in poker recently and I've got a lot to say!

You tell em Anthony!!!

Love the video my friend. Poker has been watering itself down since Moneymaker won the main in 03. IT SUCKS what ESPN and all the poker press has turned what was once a skill game into.
It’s a fucking crapshoot these days and non of these so called pros could have competed in the formats of 20 years ago.

Rebuy Rebuy Rebuy……….its a fucking joke! Good for a social club/casino, not so great for a $2/$5 rounder who used to be able to make it at that level 20 years ago.

BRING BACK THE FREEZE OUT!!


Also,

I think you need to do a poker podcast buddy, you got the wit, the charm and the sarcasm!
Fuck Joe, gimme some Anthony Martino!

 

[doublebooyah85]

There's been a lot of drama in poker recently and I've got a lot to say!

Nice. New refreshing content. Keep it up.

 

[Anthony Martino]

You tell em Anthony!!!

Love the video my friend. Poker has been watering itself down since Moneymaker won the main in 03. IT SUCKS what ESPN and all the poker press has turned what was once a skill game into.
It’s a fucking crapshoot these days and non of these so called pros could have competed in the formats of 20 years ago.

Rebuy Rebuy Rebuy……….its a fucking joke! Good for a social club/casino, not so great for a $2/$5 rounder who used to be able to make it at that level 20 years ago.

BRING BACK THE FREEZE OUT!!


Also,

I think you need to do a poker podcast buddy, you got the wit, the charm and the sarcasm!
Fuck Joe, gimme some Anthony Martino!

Ty Tuna!

Nice. New refreshing content. Keep it up.

I literally scripted this, grabbed pics and video and recorded it today. It's a lot easier when I don't have to edit in card graphics

 

[Gunnar]

I think rebuy tournaments are really what is damaging the tournament scene here locally the most, You get new players in hey it is only 50$. But you can buy in double and take double add-on and the guy next to you does 11 rebuts. That is not a 50$ tournament that is 300-500$ tournament and that player is never coming again. I like second chances even triple chance in a fixed time period but this rebuy madness is turning poker tournament into gambles where the correct way of playing is playing the short game for a double up instead of playing the skill of picking your spots. You just rebuy double until you hit and voila...

 

[Chippy McChiperson]

Anything more than 6 buy ins is over the top

 

[Gunnar]

Anything more than 6 buy ins is over the top

There is a popular Friday tournament here where the record is 29 I think and it is common for someone to have 12+

 

[Anthony Martino]

I think rebuy tournaments are really what is damaging the tournament scene here locally the most, You get new players in hey it is only 50$. But you can buy in double and take double add-on and the guy next to you does 11 rebuts. That is not a 50$ tournament that is 300-500$ tournament and that player is never coming again. I like second chances even triple chance in a fixed time period but this rebuy madness is turning poker tournament into gambles where the correct way of playing is playing the short game for a double up instead of playing the skill of picking your spots. You just rebuy double until you hit and voila...

Here in TX they promote tournaments and call them "freerolls", but they're far from free. The PLO "Freeroll" the Lodge used to host on Wednesday nights was a $30 access fee that went straight to the house (they guaranteed a 5K prizepool)

Then right from the jump you could do up to FIVE $20 "rebuys" for more chips. You could do less than those or just stick with the $30 access fee and the chips that got you.

IF you did all five "rebuys", then you were also allowed to do an optional Dealer Add-on for more chips.

Then at the end of registration, the same, you can do up to five more rebuys and if you do all of those you can do yet another dealer add-on.

I would just max late reg and pay the $245 to get all the chips in this "freeroll" and start with a stack of 130,000 chips and not have to worry about the rebuy maniacs (we had one regular named Mahesh who I think did like $1200 in buyins one time, and that dude will have a million in chips with two tables left and still not cash sometimes, but othertimes he's going to run you the fuck over with his monster stack, very dangerous because he's just super aggro and loose)

And I'm not saying they need to get rid of the rebuy madness tournaments altogether, but I think the industry leaning so heavily into them is damaging overall.

 

[Gunnar]

The business logic they are using is that a person will buy 4 bullets af 50$ each but he will not buy a 200$ entry.

The problem is that that player burns himself on the rebuy madness instead of coming again few times for lower entry fee he only comes one. They are looking at maximum value out of the player each session instead of maximum value of said player over the course for few months.

I have tried hosting 50$ double chance ( two rebuys allowed) I sold out both tournaments because there was a lot of players that liked there was a max spend.

I also think addons are usually bad for tournaments and mess up the early levels

 

[aurumity]

Here in TX they promote tournaments and call them "freerolls", but they're far from free. The PLO "Freeroll" the Lodge used to host on Wednesday nights was a $30 access fee that went straight to the house (they guaranteed a 5K prizepool)

Then right from the jump you could do up to FIVE $20 "rebuys" for more chips. You could do less than those or just stick with the $30 access fee and the chips that got you.

IF you did all five "rebuys", then you were also allowed to do an optional Dealer Add-on for more chips.

Then at the end of registration, the same, you can do up to five more rebuys and if you do all of those you can do yet another dealer add-on.

I would just max late reg and pay the $245 to get all the chips in this "freeroll" and start with a stack of 130,000 chips and not have to worry about the rebuy maniacs (we had one regular named Mahesh who I think did like $1200 in buyins one time, and that dude will have a million in chips with two tables left and still not cash sometimes, but othertimes he's going to run you the fuck over with his monster stack, very dangerous because he's just super aggro and loose)

And I'm not saying they need to get rid of the rebuy madness tournaments altogether, but I think the industry leaning so heavily into them is damaging overall.

I don't know if I would say "Texas Freerolls" are predatory, but they are definitely misleading. The first time I ever played poker was at one of these freerolls at the kard klub in Killeen. There wasn't an entry fee but you basically had to get the addons to be relevant in any way. I thought it was pretty weird at the time despite barely understanding poker.