MDchips
Sitting Out
Nice video. Love PLO action in vlogs. In the first hand, any post-mortem thoughts on betting the flop since somebody could be open ended or have over pairs to that low flop?
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Anthony Martino
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I think if I bet my hand looks like AAxx or KKxx given my preflop raise.
I Think if I check it looks the same, but it may make someone think they can rep the three I have and push me off.
I just felt like I could get more value looking like I whiffed, rather than looking not scared with an overpair.
Didn't expect the guy to hit running 8's, even then he won the minimum
DrStrange
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What happened to the last two weeks' worth of posts?
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Anthony Martino
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Anthony Martino
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This weeks vlog I take some rough beats
extreme517
Two Pair
What's the buy in spread in this game? I totally don't understand your short buying strategy the way you play in your hands in the videos.
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Anthony Martino
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It starts 200-1k. But it's unlimited straddles ftom utg to the button (can get to a $320 straddle) and match the stack. I've seen players with 5k, 8k, 20-30k
So the 5/10/25 players come in and jack it up, making it play like a shallow stacked 40/80 game
DrStrange
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I have been wondering about the effect of the expected value derived from the channel itself.
How much value comes from streaming content? Is there a problem with not generating "good" content by playing too few / too nutted hands? Is part of the strategy to create interesting content even at the cost of a lower poker EV?
Perhaps hero buys in short and splashes around. It might end up being poor expected value poker, but the content might sell well enough that it becomes more profitable than the losses that come from the approach.
Not so much this time around, Hero gets his money in good but has poor luck. Some of the other streams didn't seem as solid. I am not really sure how short stacking PLO works out in a game with significant fees and poor players. I don't get the sense that dead money happens all that much - Hero ends up with a tiny sliver of an edge subject to high variance. Let's say five-way action with one or two percentage points of overlay (if that)
The streams are entertaining, but I wonder what there is to learn sometimes. Hero's play might not be the ideal example to follow even if it is fun to watch -=- DrStrange
How much value comes from streaming content? Is there a problem with not generating "good" content by playing too few / too nutted hands? Is part of the strategy to create interesting content even at the cost of a lower poker EV?
Perhaps hero buys in short and splashes around. It might end up being poor expected value poker, but the content might sell well enough that it becomes more profitable than the losses that come from the approach.
Not so much this time around, Hero gets his money in good but has poor luck. Some of the other streams didn't seem as solid. I am not really sure how short stacking PLO works out in a game with significant fees and poor players. I don't get the sense that dead money happens all that much - Hero ends up with a tiny sliver of an edge subject to high variance. Let's say five-way action with one or two percentage points of overlay (if that)
The streams are entertaining, but I wonder what there is to learn sometimes. Hero's play might not be the ideal example to follow even if it is fun to watch -=- DrStrange
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Anthony Martino
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Anthony Martino
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This week I'm at TCH Social in Austin, the new location for all the PLO games since The Lodge lost them
Poker Zombie
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How did the Lodge "lose" PLO?
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Anthony Martino
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Hubris I would say. They thought no one could compete, they hired a lot of terrible dealers to replace the good dealers they mistreated, etc
Now 95% of PLO happens at TCH. Lodge is lucky to get a PLO game running
Poker Zombie
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But that hasn't also affected their Hold-em?
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Anthony Martino
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All of their traffic is down, nlh, plo mostly gone and tournament attendance as well
TCH has the most traffic in Austin
Lodge has WPT coming that will bump them up a bit, but they are facing serious competition these days
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Anthony Martino
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I know it's a monday so would be less traffic anyway, but TCH still winning the war
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Anthony Martino
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I made the final table of the TCH Austin Big O Fall Harvest Mini Series on Sunday, got a TON of footage and it's going to be a hell of a vlog for next week. Gotta put my editing cap on for this one
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Anthony Martino
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A sneak peek of next weeks final table vlog!
Hey Anthony I really like your videos like I said before keep them coming. I would like to see a montage perhaps of your pre-flop Folds. I'd like to see the cards you don't play and a brief reason why you got out, maybe position or a raise or something like that, but it doesn't have to be a long winded thing. It could just be a quick synopsis of like 10 hands maybe.
ekricket
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A “Hold it or Fold it” segment
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Anthony Martino
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So in some vlogs I have put in montages here and there recently where I show some folded hands.
For this Big O tournament vlog I had almost NINETY video clips to sort my way through.
Just went through them so there will be plenty of montages sprinkled throughout of hands that wound up folded. Now, some of those may be hands that I played but folded post-flop. I didn't film every single fold cause it was a full days worth of playing and that would be an insane amount of footage to work my way through.
Sometimes I go through a quick synopsis on hands I dumped and why, but generally I'll just show them as a folding montage with backing music and save my editing time for the more interesting hands, of which next weeks will have plenty.
I also have to add in some new placeholders for next weeks vlog so I can display 5 cards instead of 4 for myself and my opponent, but should be a relatively quick adjustment.
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Anthony Martino
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FINALLY one goes my way with the nut full house AND a straight flush.
One of my opponents was NOT happy and immediately let me know before he rage quit
One of my opponents was NOT happy and immediately let me know before he rage quit
Poker Zombie
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I'm still not good at Omaha, but wasn't he just 2nd nut on top, with air (well... a 1-out straight draw) on the bottom when he called your shove into a pot only holding antes?
He could have...
- folded (lose 2)
- called (risk everything and probably finish the hand +4)
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Anthony Martino
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Yeah, hw had 2nd nuts up top and nothing on the bottom. People suck at bomb pots
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Anthony Martino
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My run to the final table is up this week from the $300 buyin Big O Tournament at Texas Card House Austin during their Fall Harvest Mini-Series
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Anthony Martino
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#FuckingDonkaments
At least we had already done a deal on the prize money and were just playing for bounties.
A set, gutshot broadway draw and nut flush draw and have these guys crushed.
All-in on the turn as a 70% equity favorite THREE-WAYS with the short-stack having like 1 big blind all-in and a $25 bounty up for grabs, and somehow both yahoos bink their gutshot wheel.ooof.
Out in 4th place in the 50-man PLO PKO
At least we had already done a deal on the prize money and were just playing for bounties.
A set, gutshot broadway draw and nut flush draw and have these guys crushed.
All-in on the turn as a 70% equity favorite THREE-WAYS with the short-stack having like 1 big blind all-in and a $25 bounty up for grabs, and somehow both yahoos bink their gutshot wheel.ooof.
Out in 4th place in the 50-man PLO PKO
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Anthony Martino
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They're putting the $40 straddle on this week, oof!
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Anthony Martino
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Oy vey. Saw the Lodge had two 2/2 PLO games with 100-500 buyins last night. The usual games are 1/2/5 with unlimited straddles UTG and match the stack, buyins of 200-1K
So I was excited, maybe they're finally "getting it" and understand the importance of structuring entry-level games so newcomers can learn without getting slaughtered immediately.
Nope, they still don't understand. The game was allowing multiple straddles so these guys were putting on the 10 and 20 straddles fairly regularly.
It fails to differentiate the game and crowd from the existing 1/2/5, except for smaller initial buyins. And your $500 max buyin which is 250bb shrinks to 25bb when the 20 straddle is on.
It's absolutely fucking moronic. God let me win fucking Powerball so I can show these nitwits how to build a fucking poker room.
So I was excited, maybe they're finally "getting it" and understand the importance of structuring entry-level games so newcomers can learn without getting slaughtered immediately.
Nope, they still don't understand. The game was allowing multiple straddles so these guys were putting on the 10 and 20 straddles fairly regularly.
It fails to differentiate the game and crowd from the existing 1/2/5, except for smaller initial buyins. And your $500 max buyin which is 250bb shrinks to 25bb when the 20 straddle is on.
It's absolutely fucking moronic. God let me win fucking Powerball so I can show these nitwits how to build a fucking poker room.
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