Martonas Poker
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Do you remember Martonas? For those who don't remember him, I can inform you that he's from Sweden and used to play high stakes at Full Tilt Poker over a year ago. When Martonas started showing up at Full Tilt, he won about $2.5 million in less than 2 weeks time (most of it from durrrr) and create headlines all over the poker world. But it didn't take long before he lost it all again (most of it to durrrr) and disappeared from the scene shortly after. Many thought that we would have to wait for a very long time before another unknown player like Martonas would show up and play against the world's best. However, most people forgot about him almost straight away when another unknown swede entered the scene and broke all the records. You know who I'm talking about, right? Anyhow, on Sunday, after about a year of total absence, Martonas made a long-awaited (if you ask me at least) comeback at Full Tilt. He played Pot Limit Omaha at the $50/$100 - $200/$400 tables against URnotINdagner2 and other notables. After about 2000 hands, he had lost about $900 and decided to call it a day. In other words, no amounts that players at these levels care much about. Let's hope for more action from Martonas this week! |
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10 comments on 'High Stakes legend 'Martonas' back at the tables'
| mazas | 02/08/2010 09:16:05 GMT | ||
| money all was spended andnow onother 2 weeks maraton for him and another easy life so who will be next looser ? i think durr again pay him | |||
| Sapoazul | 02/08/2010 14:01:43 GMT | ||
| I play poker from 10 years, and at now I never come next a top 100 ranking of the 'maratonas' and '1 milion run'... to do this you need to spend a lot of money and time playing... I dont like this way... | |||
| oliver082298 | 02/08/2010 15:22:16 GMT | ||
no isildur1 yet... | |||
| Bizla | 02/08/2010 16:46:01 GMT | ||
| Isildur multi account tut tut | |||
| Fackinas | 02/08/2010 16:46:59 GMT | ||
Martonas and isildur1 is donaters they donate Durr P,Ivey... :} | |||
| Aggro666 | 02/08/2010 17:55:39 GMT | ||
| oh donaters... please tell them to donate to me also I am very open for this | |||
| duck_1991 | 02/08/2010 23:08:04 GMT | ||
| my nickname is not Martonas :-w ) | |||
| Kristan | 03/08/2010 17:35:17 GMT | ||
LOL, I thought also the same thing. They must be relatives or close friends atleast. Martonas won - then lost and dissapeared. Right after that Isildur1 appeared - with a name 'Isildur' what means I fix/hit durr . Looks to me like a straight revenge only different accounts | |||
| ricki186 | 04/08/2010 21:39:52 GMT | ||
| get 1 thing right isildur1 didnt lose to durrr) he owned durrr but lost in pot omaha in which he was new too. | |||
| Kristan | 04/08/2010 21:46:27 GMT | ||
Did you red what I wrote above or you just try to be a smartass. I never said Isildur lost to Dwan. I said it looks like a straight revenge from different account as Isildur means in sweden I will fix durr. | |||
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You must be logged in, to comment on news...Phil Galfond, known as “OMGClayAiken” online, is known for his high-stakes cash game prowess, as well as his analytical skills. This not only has made him a talented player, but a successful poker coach, as well. The subscription-based training site Blue Fire Poker features in-depth strategy videos by Galfond, and in a special High Stakes Adventure video series, he analyzes hands from his latest high-stakes sessions against some of the toughest players in the world. The following is one of those hands:
Dur Poker
The Game
Stakes: $500-$1,000
Game: No-limit hold’em
The Lineup
theASHMAN103 — $105,997.00 — Small blind $500
durrrr — $104,606.00 — Big blind $1,000
martonas — $121,8877.00 — Under the Gun
OMGClayAiken — $201,190.25 — Cutoff
Urindanger — $38,352.00 — Button
Review of the Hand
Martinas Port Huron Mi
Martonas raises under the gun to $3,000. Galfond calls with A Q, and the rest of the table folds. The pot is now $7,500.
Phil Galfond: A-Q suited is a hand I’d often three-bet here, but I have some very squeeze-happy players behind me. I think that in a vacuum, calling is probably the best play. It does some good things for my range … Obviously, it should go without saying that if somebody were to three-bet and martonas either called or folded, I would be four-betting and getting it in with A-Q suited.
The flop comes 10 5 2. martonas bets $6,000. Galfond raises to $16,800. Martonas calls, and the pot is now $41,100.
PG: I flop pretty badly — ace high, two overcards. I don’t have a backdoor-flush draw. I have backdoor-straight draw. He bets $6,000, and I decide that calling here is OK, but I’m not getting that much EV [expected value] from calling. I’d feel a little weird folding, as well. I think if I had to choose between the two of them, I’d decide to call, but I thought it’d be a pretty good spot to raise. It’s tough to say, because I haven’t played a ton against him, and I can’t say for sure what he thinks of me or how he’d interpret a play on a very dry board like this, but I haven’t been too active in these games, which I’m sure he noticed. This is a board that does well for my calling range. I can definitely have tens, fives, or deuces for a set. Obviously I can’t really have any kind of two-pair combo hands here, but A-10, K-10 — both very possible, as are slow-played aces, kings, queens, jacks, and things like that, so I think I should get a lot of credit. I do have my six outs against almost all of his hands. I have the best hand a decent amount of the time, not that it matters, but he’ll fold most of his air. I don’t think he’s super-likely to come over the top here. If he does call, I’ll probably be following up on a lot of turn and river cards. I make it $16,800. I don’t think you need to make any big raises on a board like this with any of your hands. I think that kind of goes without saying.
The turn is the 6. The board now reads 10 5 2 6. martonas checks, and Galfond bets $28,400. Martonas calls, and the pot is now $97,900.
PG: The turn is an offsuit 6. That completes 4-3, which is very possible for me to have. I don’t want to say extremely possible, but possible for me to have, possible for him to have, but pretty unlikely for both. It doesn’t do too much to change things. I think that the type of player he is, at least the impression I had at this time, was that he’d be calling with a lot of ace-high hands there on the flop and pretty much every pair, but the reason I raised [on the flop] was because I’d get him off of all of the hands that were airy and that were going to potentially barrel me off of my hand, or improve to beat my hand.
And I also thought that on a lot of turn and river cards, specifically overcards, I could take him off of his mid-pair type of hands. He checks, and this is kind of a close spot. I think checking behind and seeing a river is an OK play. You can potentially win sometimes at showdown, but not all that often. I think that stacks are pretty good for a bet here with the plan to follow up on a lot of rivers. He is kind of likely to call here on the turn if he does have a pair, especially because pocket fours, pocket threes, 5-4, 6-4 — well, he’s not going to have 6-4 that often, but hands like that now have a gutterball [gutshot] to go with their pair.
The good thing about this turn is that now there are a lot of river cards that will be a little bit scarier to him. A 9, 8, or 7 all complete straights if I was raising the flop with random air. And even though no legit hand I’d be rising on the flop would have a straight by the river, I could definitely be raising with a hand like a 9-7 suited. And that’s something he has to worry about by the river, because that’s something I’d be betting a lot on the turn with those hands. Basically what I’m doing in this spot is I’m keeping my hand range very wide while learning a lot about his hand range each street.
One pretty important thing in this hand is a read I had at the time after playing a little bit of heads up against martonas. I haven’t seen him slow-play that often. Even though it’s not a huge concern, to run into a few combos of sets on this board, the fact that he’s not likely to come back over the top on the flop or on the turn with those hands makes me more comfortable turning my hand into a bluff or turning it into a thin value-bet if I managed to hit an ace or a queen on the river.
Who Is Martonas Poker
I am only betting $28,000 to win $41,000, and I do have those six outs, which isn’t nothing. He does end up calling, which I expect a decent amount of the time.
Martonas Poker
The river is the J. The board now reads 10 5 2 6 J. martonas checks, and Galfond goes all in for $152,990.25. martonas folds. Galfond wins the pot of $97,900.
PG: The river is a jack, which is a pretty good card to continue on. It’s very possible that I have a jack in my range; I mean, just as easily as I have an ace or a queen in my hand. A lot of overcard air-type hands that I have are going to play like this just as often as any other air-type hand, so I think it’s another hand he’s going to have to worry about. I think it’s pretty unlikely it hits him. It’s definitely a card that hurts the majority of his range and relative hand strength — or absolute hand strength, really. He’s going to have a lot of mid-pairs, and even tens is going to be hard for him to call a bet here given the way I’ve been playing, how the board has come off, and the way the flop was so airy.
He checks, I shove the river, and he ends up folding. This is a spot that isn’t by any means a standard spot, but something that you should have in your game. I think a lot of people will usually make a flop-raise here and then give up, and by doing that, their ranges are really unbalanced, because they are never really firing the turn unless they improve to a pretty good draw, and they pretty much never fire the river. Unless, I guess, if they improve the turn, sometimes they barrel off the river, but for the most part people take one shot at boards like this. So, you find other opponents calling flops and giving up on future streets, which is what I was hoping for with my A-Q. But as part of my overall game, when I do have big hands, now I can get paid off, or I should get paid off — or at least I should be putting them in tougher spots when the board comes off like this.
Blue Fire Poker is a subscription-based training site where members can get access to in-depth strategy videos by in-house pros. Galfond is the lead instructor and contributes four to six videos a month. His personal blog is also posted on the website.