My Journey As A Professional Poker Player (29 Viewers)

semi joking of course. I know that during our home games the drinks flow freely and the chips do as well. When I go to the casino or a poker club though the game is pretty different and I'm not stuck in as many pots. I learned a good amount about PLO by reading this thread and the reasoning for your plays so that's helped me not over play hands. I feel I've become semi competent in PLO and had good reads against my crew when I'm ahead/behind in PLO. So much so that the last game, I literally screamed "FUCK!" and threw my cards down when the exact card I didn't want to see hit the river and I knew I just lost the hand. I was right.
 
:qc::qs::js::9c: limp in BB, callers, button raises to 65, one caller, I call, pro repots to 340, raiser calls, I fold

Flop :jc::9s::4c:

Ugh, they get it all-in

PRO :ac::ad::qd::5h:
RAISER: :kc::qh::8d::8c:

I would've won, fill up with 9 on river
 
We limp :kd::qh::th::9d: and there's a raise to 75, EVERYONE calling, we call

Flop :ts::tc::2d:

EP fish pots for $465, we call

Turn :9d:

He bets $1500, we shove and go twice. He has :2s::2c:xx and doesn't suck out, we have him covered

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We call a raise with :ac::jh::9h::3c: on the button

Multiway to a flop of :ah::jd::9d:

Checked to us, we bet pot, guy with about 1500 checkraises to almost 900, I rip it in, we go twice

He has :ad::td:xx

First board my Aces and Jacks wins. 2nd board I fill up and his flush is no good!

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So if you meet your 10k quota in cash you buying in for the 2 mil guarantee? If so keep on printing!

Also, enjoy the upswing. Nice when it happens!
 
That brings up a new question. What would you do for 5k? Is it a shorter list to say what you wouldn't do? :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:
 
So if you meet your 10k quota in cash you buying in for the 2 mil guarantee? If so keep on printing!

Also, enjoy the upswing. Nice when it happens!

Lol, that's for the Monday tourney only

That brings up a new question. What would you do for 5k? Is it a shorter list to say what you wouldn't do? :ROFL: :ROFLMAO:

Depends, am I up or down on the session?
 
You know how you can tell @Anthony Martino is getting better? He's gone from first person singular to first person plural.

:qc::qs::js::9c: limp in BB, callers, button raises to 65, one caller, I call, pro repots to 340, raiser calls, I fold

Flop :jc::9s::4c:

Ugh, they get it all-in

PRO :ac::ad::qd::5h:
RAISER: :kc::qh::8d::8c:

I would've won, fill up with 9 on river

We limp :kd::qh::th::9d: and there's a raise to 75, EVERYONE calling, we call

Flop :ts::tc::2d:

EP fish pots for $465, we call

Turn :9d:

He bets $1500, we shove and go twice. He has :2s::2c:xx and doesn't suck out, we have him covered
 
Two of the fish busted (got em!) and two other guys were racking up, table going to break so I took it in for the day. In for $1,500 and out for $6,888

Grand profit of $5,388 (my best cash session EVER!)

And I would've won another $1200-1500. Got a kid to put his stack in bad, ran it twice and he snuck out on the river of one of the boards so we had to chop (he raised some garbage like KT96 and I repotted with AAK2 one suit, flop is K32 and he check-calls my pot sized bet, then stacks off on the 5 turn when he picked up a backdoor flush draw)

He binked a 9 on one river and whiffed the 2nd river
 
Two of the fish busted (got em!) and two other guys were racking up, table going to break so I took it in for the day. In for $1,500 and out for $6,888

Grand profit of $5,388 (my best cash session EVER!)

And I would've won another $1200-1500. Got a kid to put his stack in bad, ran it twice and he snuck out on the river of one of the boards so we had to chop (he raised some garbage like KT96 and I repotted with AAK2 one suit, flop is K32 and he check-calls my pot sized bet, then stacks off on the 5 turn when he picked up a backdoor flush draw)

He binked a 9 on one river and whiffed the 2nd river
You can PayPal my $86.10 over whenever. Thanks @Anthony Martino !!
 
This is a cool thread!! Just skimmed a few pages but probably missed some amazing posts!

since you started the thread, @Anthony Martino, what were your top 3 most memorable and poker related moments (doesn’t have to be a hand or session)? What about your most challenging, non bad beat and non losing session related, moment?

There are some vloggers that regularly play where you play - what do you think of their skill?
 
This is a cool thread!! Just skimmed a few pages but probably missed some amazing posts!

since you started the thread, @Anthony Martino, what were your top 3 most memorable and poker related moments (doesn’t have to be a hand or session)? What about your most challenging, non bad beat and non losing session related, moment?

There are some vloggers that regularly play where you play - what do you think of their skill?

Welcome aboard KHP!

TOP 3 MEMORABLE MOMENTS

- Losing as a 97.5% favorite sticks out. Playing 2/5 PLO with a $10 rock. My opponent is the typical crazy asian gambler, but when he's running good, look the fuck out. We get stacks in on the turn, I have top two pair and the NFD, he has K944 for the 2nd flush draw.........and a pair of 4's. He can't hit the :4c: because that gives us both the flush and me the win. That leaves the :4s: Did I mention he only runs it once? Well, he binked that fucking miracle river, lol! (he also got me with 4% equity when the flop was AKQ and I had broadway plus a 10-high flush draw. He had A992 with a 9-high flush draw, got it all-in on the flop and he binks the 9 on the turn and pairs the K on the river to scoop me)

- Getting the colluding Cubans caught and banned. It was maddening to lose over and over to these guys, but fortunately I noticed betting patterns that made zero sense (and results that were insane) and did some digging, called attention to it and fortunately got them caught and banned. They likely cheated me out of a small 5 figures, and all-told probably made off with 6 figures over the time they were running their card marking scam

- Having a former friend block me on Facebook right after I checkraised them in a pot (I had flopped a straight flush, they had the AJ of the suit), then having them loudly declare they felt I should give them the money they called back, and having them go online and around to people I know pitching a bitch about it, like I was some horrible person. Like, bitch, this is my JOB, at the poker table I'm there to win money. If I had to softplay everyone I was friendly with I wouldn't have any games to play in!

MOST CHALLENGING NON-BAD BEAT / NON-LOSING SESSION RELATED MOMENT

Having Covid hit 6 months into my start of this and my income being cut off, and not knowing when I would be able to continue playing. Fortunately I had been smart and socked aside living expenses outside of my bankroll and was able to subsist until the local rooms re-opened a couple of months later.


VLOGGERS & SKILL

Tampa Hard Rock doesn't permit filming, so I'm not familiar with any Vloggers that frequent my stomping grounds. Are there any particular Vloggers you're asking about? I do watch some stuff out there, so might have an opinion.
 
I actually just started watching a few vloggers and the YouTube algorithm spit out more recommendations and I noticed they were in Florida. Maybe not the same casino you’re at though. There’s Lex O and Harry B at Florida.

I’ve also seen Brad Owen, Andrew Neeme, Jaman Burton, Mariano, Rampage, and PokerBeast. Haven’t watched tooo much of them, but if you wanted to highlight some that are particularly good where I can learn a lot, or some that are particularly bad that I should avoid, that would be helpful! Or any that I missed!
 
I actually just started watching a few vloggers and the YouTube algorithm spit out more recommendations and I noticed they were in Florida. Maybe not the same casino you’re at though. There’s Lex O and Harry B at Florida.

I’ve also seen Brad Owen, Andrew Neeme, Jaman Burton, Mariano, Rampage, and PokerBeast. Haven’t watched tooo much of them, but if you wanted to highlight some that are particularly good where I can learn a lot, or some that are particularly bad that I should avoid, that would be helpful! Or any that I missed!

I've seen some of Lex and I believe he plays in the Miami area, so 3-4 hours away from me. Plus he plays NLHE cash games. I don't really play much NLHE cash games, but he seemed pretty solid. I'm not familiar with Harry B

I watch Brad Owen and find him entertaining, although I feel like his most recent stuff he's trying to force the entertainment in his videos and it comes across as disingenuous a bit for my liking. But seems like a nice and humble guy overall from what I've watched.

Andrew Neme is starting to get into PLO more, which is cool. I have differences of opinions with what his coach is teaching him. I feel it's more relevant to GTO-style online 6-max games rather than full-ring live ones, at least in the games I've experienced. Perhaps where they play it's different?

Rampage seems like a lot of what he does is "well, fuck it, I have bottom pair, I call........oh, got there!"

I don't know that you can learn a ton from Vloggers. Their format is generally more for entertainment, and they're going to cherry-pick situations for that. In live poker you might fold for what seems like 3-4 hours sometimes waiting for good situations, and even then may not come out on top. I do respect Brad Owen that he's shared a lot of his losing sessions too.

I enjoy watching Boski for tournament action, his monotone voice has grown on me. Ryan DePaulo is always entertaining in his Vlogs as well, but also mostly tournament focused.

There isn't a ton of PLO content out there. There is a new kid that's been vlogging lately (DonkFishPoker), he has a pretty awful/boring voice to listen to, and his style is a bit TOO tight in my opinion. He plays 5/5 PLO with buyins from $200-1K (he always seems to buyin for $300 and try to spin it up and get out). He tends to fold some hands I might play, and only call in spots where his stack is so small in relation to the action that he should be getting it in and hoping to get it headsup with some dead money (some double suited connected style hands, etc). But I do watch him regularly and he's gaining some traction.


Seems like you either pot, limp/call or fold. What situations (except riverbets) don't you pot if you're the aggressor?

If you're asking about post-flop play, I rarely make cute bets, generally if I am betting it's full pot. I'm also rarely the aggressor preflop, as I want to focus on pot-control so that my hands with decent equity can continue post-flop and not get pushed out because the pot is bloated. Likewise, the more players in the pot, the harder it is for the overly-aggressive bluffers to utilize that tool since facing 5+ opponents they'll be hard-pressed to run a successful bluff.

As far as not betting if you've been the aggressor, it comes down to board textures and hand ranges. Does the board favor my range or my opponents, given the action up to this point?

If someone raises preflop and the board comes :5d::6c::7s: it's going to usually favor the range of the callers rather than the player who raised (since usually those raises are going to be AAxx, KKxx or Broadway suited cards like AKJT, AQQT, etc) So in that case, the raiser facing multiple opponents shouldn't be betting a flop of that texture (although some still do, and of course if they play tricky and happened to raise with a hand that hit that board, they may get paid off if people put them on Aces or broadway holdings)
 

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