Kidsthesedays
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What do you eat at the tables?
I Quit My Job To Play Poker AMA (3 Viewers)
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Anthony Martino
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We can only eat at the two private tables in the high limit room, no eating on the main floor. And even if I have the option to eat at the table I prefer to take a 15-20 minute break from the grind and just enjoy my meal in the snack area, call the wife and give her an update, etc
Generally I have a salad with chicken that I either make or buy at the casino. Sometimes a sandwich
Sometimes I won't have a real dinner and will just have fruit or yogurt with granola.
Wife got me a Brita filtered water bottle so I can refill that instead of having to keep ordering waters from the waitress and keep tipping out. #Frugal #EveryPennyCounts
Poker Zombie
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Do you tip differently now that your income is wholly dependent?
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Anthony Martino
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No, I always felt that service staff deserved to be tipped when their incomes depend on it.
That being said, I'm not the guy tossing red and green birds either. I'm tipping $1 for pots won, $1 to staff at the snack counter, $1 to the waitress, $1 to the cashier at the window
My sessions don't usually go over 10 hours, usually less. Plus I take walks through the casino as breaks to clear my head and keep the blood flowing
I avoid elevators and escalators the majority of the time and take stairs up and down from the garage and within the casino
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Kidsthesedays
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If you make your nut in the first few days of the month do you take the rest of the month off?
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Anthony Martino
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I wish I did in February, lol, but no. I was up 6k in the first 11 days, thought I was on track to beat my December results, then fell off a cliff
Kidsthesedays
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Besides monetary gain or potential loss, why do you play more than you need to?
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Anthony Martino
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Well, I have a monthly nut I need to make on a consistant basis. But there's no guarantee I'll make that each month.
As we saw in February, I took a loss for the month. So some months (like December) I may win double or more my monthly nut, which helps when I have a losing month or one where I don't quite hit the goal
The more I can win, the better positioned I am to handle variance, deal with missing a week of income because of the flu, etc
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Poker Zombie
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Can you stop saying "nut"?
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Anthony Martino
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Joined Anytime Fitness, got the year membership. Just 4 miles down the road and have 24 hr acess
They have these heavy bags for me to beat on if I've suffered a bad session which will help a lot.
Hopefully the next time you guys see me at a meetup I'll be swoll!
They have these heavy bags for me to beat on if I've suffered a bad session which will help a lot.
Hopefully the next time you guys see me at a meetup I'll be swoll!
Kidsthesedays
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Do you keep track of your tips? And if so how much have you tipped out this year?
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Anthony Martino
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I do, and $1,177 is the number. That is a rough estimate, but should be fairly close (since September when I started)
That includes dealers, waitresses, brush, cage and poker snackbar (but not restaurants)
Using a punching bag in the gym is the equivalent to wearing a facemask, hoodie and sunglasses at a $0.25/$0.50 game.
Stick to the weights lol.
WedgeRock
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@Anthony Martino, has coronavirus lessened the numbers at all? Is it harder to find your normal game?
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Anthony Martino
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This past Saturday the room was a bit slower than usual
Monday they had 1k high hands every 30 minutes and packed them in (37 tables of 46 running when I looked, but I was at the plo game at Luckys rather than the hard rock)
And Tuesday they were doing 5k highest high hand every 3 hours from noon to midnight in addition to regular high hands every 30 minutes and the room didn't get as busy as I expected but still plenty of action
Wednesday was fairly expected to be slower than usual, coming off the two high hand promo days, but I still found plenty of PLO action
I was off Thursday but saw 2 different PLO games running at hard rock and 1 at luckys
I have a free slot tournament today plus it's friday so...poker. will be interesting to see since the panic seems to have started between wed-thurs at some point. But given PLO seemed to run fine yesterday I expect I'll still find action
Poker Zombie
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I just flew into Milwaukee. Airport traffic was extremely light. Security took under a minute (or however long it takes you to take off your shoes, etc.). Once in Milwaukee, we played about an hour at the Potawatomi Casino. They had quite a few tables going, including a Big O game, multiple tables of 13, and a 2-5. This was around Noon-2pm. It was as I had expected from checking out the Bravo app weeks before my trip.
Assuming Milwaukee isn't a tourist destination, and from the table chatter, I took most of the players to be local / regulars. I imagine games in Tampa will be the same. Degens gonna degen, but the tourists are probably going to thin out.
If @Anthony Ferguson makes most of his money off tourists, this might be a tougher weekend to make nut.
Assuming Milwaukee isn't a tourist destination, and from the table chatter, I took most of the players to be local / regulars. I imagine games in Tampa will be the same. Degens gonna degen, but the tourists are probably going to thin out.
If @Anthony Ferguson makes most of his money off tourists, this might be a tougher weekend to make nut.
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Anthony Martino
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Our player pool is much smaller than hold em, and fortunately for me consists of more locals who keep coming back
While I do see unknown faces show up, I encounter more of the same faces over and over. There are a number of guys who own businesses, are retired, etc that just love the gamble of PLO and keep coming back to it
PlayerADK
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Exactly what I was going to say lmao
Littleluck55
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You should take a trip to Cincinnati. They have been playing a lot of PLO with some huge stakes. 50/100 earlier today and have seen a waitlist for 100/200 before.
It looks like crowds are down some as there is usually around 15 tables going on a Friday/Saturday
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Anthony Martino
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Definitely saw a decline in traffic for a Friday at the Hard Rock in Tampa. We still got the 2/5/10 and the 1/2 PLO going, but were missing some faces.
And 50/100 PLO is just "a bit" outside my bankroll (now selling action!!!)
Littleluck55
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Ohio Governor said all casinos in the state have to close by midnight tonight until further notice, but they said at least until the end of the month. I guess that is why you always need a contingent plan.
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Anthony Martino
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I have an online site I can use if needed
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Anthony Martino
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So on Saturdays I usually go in for the afternoon so I can have lunch at home with Jenn
Right now checking the Bravo app there are a whopping 8 tables going out of 45+ in the room, no.PLO running and only 3 people on the interest list
May not wind up heading down today. We were able to get our groceries without much issue this morning. We have well water and a foltration system for the house plus use a brita water pitcher so no concern there
The toilet paper was wiped out but we had found a deal last time and already had extra so we should be ok
But yeah, people are fucking nutso with the panic shopping
Right now checking the Bravo app there are a whopping 8 tables going out of 45+ in the room, no.PLO running and only 3 people on the interest list
May not wind up heading down today. We were able to get our groceries without much issue this morning. We have well water and a foltration system for the house plus use a brita water pitcher so no concern there
The toilet paper was wiped out but we had found a deal last time and already had extra so we should be ok
But yeah, people are fucking nutso with the panic shopping
Kid_Eastwood
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Same here in Belgium. Everyone is mad after toilet paper. This is fucking hilarious.
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