michael martinez

live/love/play cards!!!!

[Jeff Gross @JeffGrossPoker]

Bill Perkins breaks down the mental model for optimizing your entire life 🧠 Skip the generic frameworks — once you know exactly what you want (ski trips in your 50s, opera in your 70s), you don't need anybody's system. You've got a powerful computer between your ears — all it needs is the right framework. Full ep on YT 👆 @bp22 #TheFlowShow #JeffGross #Poker #EP79 #BillPerkins #DieWithZero #PokerLife #PokerStrategy #PokerPro #Entrepreneurship #Mindset #StartupLife #FounderStory

[Gabriel M Haines @gabrielhaines]

GOT MY AK CRACKED BY KJ

ABSOLUTELY DISGUSTING RUN OUT AT THE HARDROCK

[Rui Cao @ruicao]

Don't chase losses. Life is long, there will always be another game. Play when they are tilted, quit when you are. It's only painful the first 1 hour after quitting, then life goes on.

[michael martinez @FreerollMike]

@ninelivescatt SATX???

[Aisar @aisarcore]

A broke immigrant walked into Las Vegas with $50 in his pocket and a $10,000 loan from a friend. Over the next three years he built one of the largest gambling fortunes in Vegas history. Then he gave nearly all of it back at the tables that made him rich.

– Archie Karas, a Greek immigrant who arrived in the U.S. as a teenager, drove to Las Vegas in December 1992 after losing almost everything from an earlier gambling streak, arriving with roughly $50 to his name.

– He started by hustling pool games near the Tropicana, reportedly building his first six-figure bankroll from those matches before moving into high-stakes poker.

– He challenged some of the era's top poker professionals, including Puggy Pearson, Chip Reese, and Stu Ungar, at increasingly large stakes.

– By the summer of 1994, Cigar Aficionado reported his bankroll had climbed past $17 MILLION and was still growing.

– He eventually shifted to games of pure chance, including craps and baccarat, betting as much as $300,000 on a single roll of the dice.

– At his peak, his fortune is widely reported to have reached around $40 MILLION

– Though the exact figure has never been fully confirmed and some sources place it closer to $17–26 MILLION.

– His fortunes reversed dramatically in 1995 over the course of roughly a month

– He lost around $17 MILLION playing baccarat, another $11 MILLION at craps, and $2 MILLION in a poker match against Johnny Chan.

– A brief trip home to Greece didn't stop the bleeding, upon returning to Vegas, he lost most of what remained almost immediately, ending "The Run" essentially broke.

– He was later placed on Nevada's official list of excluded persons, the "Black Book," in 2017 following a cheating arrest at a San Diego casino years earlier.

He arrived with $50 borrowed from a friend and built a fortune bigger than most companies are worth. It took him three years to build it and about a month at the same casinos to lose all of it back.

[Tiffany Michelle @TiffnyMichelle]

20yrs of spending the summer in Vegas for the World Series of Poker and this was one few times I actually got to step out of the casino to catch 4th of July fireworks.

The strip view from a @Cosmopolitan_LV balcony suite was overwhelming! Thanks @pokerorg for the treat.

[WSOP - World Series of Poker @WSOP]

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is!

Fireworks on Day 2 of the $50,000 Poker Players Championship as @harrington25 and @phil_hellmuth get into a heated debate.

Will it result in another side bet over markup?

[michael martinez @FreerollMike]

@cblezbets Print!!!!

[michael martinez @FreerollMike]

@getnickwright you’re right!! The new NGNF show is so good for poker. But we can t have @phil_hellmuth on the show anymore! And I think you and many others would agree!! You did good by calling him out on day 1. And you should continue. Maybe he’ll get the hint!!

[The Iced Coffee Hour @TheICHpodcast]

Kevin O’Leary reveals you’ll become a millionaire on $69,000/year by investing 20% of your paycheck each week👀

“Take 20% of your salary of $69,000 and put it into the market each week and don't touch it”

[Gambling is Life @GamblingMemez]

Who did this lmao

[WIll jaffe @dankness3]

Wow Schulman literally calls out Beckers exact hand and Becker can’t believe it. Negreanu was the king of this but I’m not even sure he’s had one this good

[phil_hellmuth @phil_hellmuth]

Hello @TomDwan!

@UnderArmour @stanleytang

@GrandSierra @PokerNightTV

#POSITIVITY

[SoundCloud Era @TheSCEra]

Playboi Carti — Magnolia (2017)