Nice job, Mariano. I've watched all your videos as they were produced and recently re-watched them again in sequence. You've come a long way since that first one. Your poker gets better with each video, and your videography is very professional. I look forward to each new one. Thanks for taking me along on your many casino adventures.
Mariano I am so glad to see a video of yours come out! I absolutely love how you vlog because I understand what you are saying. A lot of times people talk in their vlogs and it just goes over my head...so ty! I also love that you don’t just sit and let people shred you. If you don’t agree with their analysis of you you tell them. Awesome!! Great job! Stay safe and healthy! 💙💥🍀💰
probably the best midstakes blogger in terms of skill and video quality. your game has improved so much since u started vlogging it’s wild. keep it up man 💯..
Great vid as usual. Produce the content as you feel. I’m sure it helps to feed the creative within you. Wishing you not only plenty of run good but whatever other positive things that may float your boat.
Well done man. You never fail to please. Great combination of poker and production value. These days all I’m looking for are new episodes of the Mandalorian and Mariano poker vlogs.
Jeez, why didn't I find these vlogs much earlier??👍👍 Pretty informative - love the explanation of the thought process behind the moves. One quick suggestion though - if possible pls. also show your/opponents positions and/or starting stacks during each hand on screen as it would just help us relate to the action better. Keep up the awesome stuff coming bro. Cheers!
Ok I'm 20 secs into this video, very tired from a long days work (13hrs) but I accidentally opened this video instead of clicking 'watch later'. Man your videos are great and the first 20secs of the background beat is SICK! Thanks for all the nice work you put into this. Still going to watch video later though, I'm beat 💤
Another enjoyable vlog Mariano! Been here since you started and it's awesome to see you moving up in stakes. I knew you would, because I could tell you had solid fundamentals and a good work ethic. Keep the quality content coming. I'm currently recovering from back surgery, so any distraction is a welcome distraction :) Cheers!
For the KJcc hand either squeeze or fold pre. Cold calling in the sb is rarely good, esp with this exact hand. Occasionally I will cold call the sb with medium pocket pairs and suited aces when there is a whale at the table who I want to keep in the hand. I'll try to be there friday, look forward to battling it out.
Folding is an awful advice. Any pro can flat KJs profitably from SB with fish involved in the pot. Position matters less multiway than HU. Hate me if you want, but you seem to be brainwashed by GTO 😆
@@paalsandmo9728 great squeeze candidate unless the PFR is extremely tight. Folding is slightly better than calling but it's close. And position DOES matter even more in multiway situations as our hands will realize equity very poorly when we are OOP against the entire table.
Another truly superb short film by Mariano. That hand with the three aces on board made me wonder though... Are any casinos offering bad beat jackpots right now? I know The Orleans wasn't as of last month. Anyway~ keep up the great work, brother.
Mariano, every time I get A9o, KJo, I raise preflop x2 of antes and one or two people always call... I find myself folding a lot after someone bets and I miss a board with no draws. Maybe I call next time?
On that first hand w/ A2s jw if a 1/4 or 1/3 cbet sometimes would deny some equity from smalls pairs/Ax//KQ hands? Given you can still bend some JT/AT/KT hands ott 1/3 otf then 3/4 ott. Or long term not good? Or even an overbet otf/ shut down on some turns that help his range and continue with cards that help u obv. Idk just wondering
@@MarianoPoker can you point me in the right direction of where to edit videos free or cheap? Want to make a Vlog of my own. Thanks! Big fan man keep doing ur thing
@@MarianoPoker Man, it's the FIGOs, corny or otherwise in my humble opinion that help separate a channel from the rest, and I was always a fan when they came up. Your channel has plenty going for it without them of course but just saying. Keep up the great work Mariano!
@@andyc4685 If you go back in Mariano's poker vlogs, you'll come across the occasional moment where nothing that happened in a specific hand made any sense. These were called FIGO (F*ck Is Going On) hands and were guaranteed to be extra entertaining.
It’s not corny tho for FIGO. I think it indicates pretty exciting hands that would attract more viewers. Hey, one day it might become a term often used by poker players. Fingers crossed 🤞
The AQdd hand with the K club turn was the perfect card, it removed all his Kxcc type of hands, great spot to continue and get value from 2nd pair type of hands and weak aces
Why didn't you raise that KJcc hand on the flop in position? Esp. with KQdd7c flop - pretty draw heavy board and a lot of turns could potentially be bad. Must realise equity on the flop and get more money in and have the betting lead as well. Would love to hear your perspective on this.
@@evanacalkins So he is also a DJ? How does this work? "An important distinction to be made between DJ mixtapes and retail compilations of pop music is that the retail compilations obtain permissions for the use of copyrighted songs contained in the mix, while the DJ usually does not. As a result, mixtapes, such as those produced and sold by club DJs, are illegal."
@@NoTeaBaggers it’s a free mixtape. He produced the music live on twitch. He isn’t copywriting his music so it is free to use for any use. The term DJ is more used for mixing music. Producing in what he does.
Hey Bubba, Ricky here! This may be one of my favorite vlogs to date. Clear and reasoned decisions presented well. That being said I think you could have gotten called by worse in the 88 hand while in position? Not because he had exactly K5dd but that he could easily have smaller pairs that become bluff catchers. It’s pretty thin but I think a bet of 30% pot will receive a fair amount of crying calls. Also worth noting he will have very few bluffs/check raises here after checking the river. At the very least he folds and you don’t have to table your hand.Be an interesting lab query. .
@@MarianoPoker please don’t listen to people who don’t know anything about ranges, big range advantage for opponent so checking almost full range is totally fine.
See we have to theorize a little bit more on the rationale behind AJ, suited or unsuited. You said that he should have a lot more flushes once it came in on the turn, so you checked it for information but he played it how a "thinking player" would if the lottery landed in your lap. Hindsight is the root of all evil in this game, we know, but I swear Ace-Jack would be the title of a bestseller that materializes the mysteriousness of hands such as that on the button. In the long run, he should probably be betting more, but the super fine line of deceptive playability is my biggest interest.
Do you ever look back on your recordings for any body language/tells by villains? Noticed some interesting body language by villain in the AhJd vs 5s3s hand (on phone, hands crossed on top of each other). Could be reading too much into it lol.
So Mariano had a full house (AAA,88) because there was three aces on the board. Full house> flush. He only lost to his opponent having a pair of Queens which would have been a higher full house, higher pockets than him, or the 4th ace
Or the exact opposite,actually people when bluffing are trying to get unnoticed,most of the time are starring at the board occasionally starring at your soul trying to intimidate you but when they show uninterested in the hand like watching their phone or looking around is a sign of strength. Speaking from personal experience,could be wrong
@@MarianoPoker As played it’s also a definite call. Best calling hand you’ll ever have in this position. Blocking the nut straight, top two pair and unblocking the flush draw throughout. This is a very exploitable fold
KJ feels like a fold to me. Unless he’s capable of turning pairs into a bluff, I think he’ll have too much value. Sizing is also too large for him to have QJ or KJ.
Mariano, when you bet on the river, if your opponent stares at you, what do you do? Do you stare them back or what? I can't control my nervousness when I bluffed bet on the river, any advise? Thanks
@@MarianoPoker But when they took like 2 minutes to stare you down, what can you do to stay calm? Any method? My heart would pump so fast and my breathing is not normal.
I notice that you dont get bit by A K, do you ever worry about that though? I see many pros consider this hand first a lot. Just curious your mentality on that.
Nice job, Mariano. I've watched all your videos as they were produced and recently re-watched them again in sequence. You've come a long way since that first one. Your poker gets better with each video, and your videography is very professional. I look forward to each new one. Thanks for taking me along on your many casino adventures.
Thanks for the overly kind words Barry 🙏🏼
Here's to many more
Yes, you HAVE to include the more "mundane" hands, they give added perspective.
I'm 00p
Probably one of the cleanest poker vlogs on the tube great job man.
Another great short film! Love the play, love the camera work, love the music, and especially love the commentary!
Great content, as always!
Also, very nice to include those "normal" hands amongst the bigger/action hands. Shows the reality of a session 👍
the production value of this vlog is fire
thanks for the vlog mariano :) great video
Thanks!
Mariano I am so glad to see a video of yours come out! I absolutely love how you vlog because I understand what you are saying. A lot of times people talk in their vlogs and it just goes over my head...so ty! I also love that you don’t just sit and let people shred you. If you don’t agree with their analysis of you you tell them. Awesome!! Great job! Stay safe and healthy! 💙💥🍀💰
Thanks Janice !
Great quality, and very entertaining to watch! Keep up the great work, looking forward to your next vids
Thank you 🙏🏼
Your attention to detail in your edits is amazing. You even put the casino cards on the screen. 👌
Cashing out a win is the best part of any poker video.
Kudos for very quickly moving up in the stakes. Shooting your shot. good to see.
probably the best midstakes blogger in terms of skill and video quality. your game has improved so much since u started vlogging it’s wild. keep it up man 💯..
Thanks for the kind words man!
“It’s actually a pretty cool looking chip”
Subtle $1k chip flex 🤣🤣
fold
Great vid as usual. Produce the content as you feel. I’m sure it helps to feed the creative within you. Wishing you not only plenty of run good but whatever other positive things that may float your boat.
I was in same table at 5-5 game before you start 5-10 game on this date. I'm watching your TH-cam every time, Good Luck!
Just what I needed this Monday mornin!
Well done man. You never fail to please. Great combination of poker and production value. These days all I’m looking for are new episodes of the Mandalorian and Mariano poker vlogs.
Thanks man
I’m a simple man I see vlog I click. Love the production
Everytime
Mariano is the goat
yep
I've watched other poker bloggers and I like Mariano's the best.
@MetalHeadZ thanks Janae I’ll mow the lawn baby
Among all the vloggers I've been following, you absolutely have the highest level of production. Love it!
Thank you for the kind words
Jeez, why didn't I find these vlogs much earlier??👍👍
Pretty informative - love the explanation of the thought process behind the moves.
One quick suggestion though - if possible pls. also show your/opponents positions and/or starting stacks during each hand on screen as it would just help us relate to the action better.
Keep up the awesome stuff coming bro. Cheers!
Ok I'm 20 secs into this video, very tired from a long days work (13hrs) but I accidentally opened this video instead of clicking 'watch later'. Man your videos are great and the first 20secs of the background beat is SICK! Thanks for all the nice work you put into this. Still going to watch video later though, I'm beat 💤
Thanks man! Get some rest
Glad to see you back posting Vlogs. Also good to see 5-10 action at a casino and not that weak sauce from that other dude at poker halls.
Whos dat?
Great video as always mate. Saving for Vegas as we speak. Can't wait!
I really like the way you think about the game. Great balance between GTO and live feel
Thanks man that's the goal 🤷🏻♂️
Agree 100%
Glad to be watching these again. Stay safe out there man and keep grinding
Will do. Thanks
Great job! I really like how you are specifically targeting opponents hands with effective betting. This episode earned my sub!
Ayye man good stuff on the video! Learning from watching ya play and good luck out there in Vegas! 🙏🏼
Nice session! Beautiful cooler on the hand you hit the boat on the river 🔥🔥🔥
Nice to run good sometimes
Great analysis of the hands, love the quality of the vlogs! keep up the good work bro
Thanks Andrew
you seem to be running really well. your vids are really good as well as your play!
The intros to your vids are always so dope
Another enjoyable vlog Mariano! Been here since you started and it's awesome to see you moving up in stakes. I knew you would, because I could tell you had solid fundamentals and a good work ethic. Keep the quality content coming. I'm currently recovering from back surgery, so any distraction is a welcome distraction :) Cheers!
Thank you for the nice comment. Good luck on your recovery
Love Vlogs, I have learned a lot about from you and Brad Owens. Nice work my guy keep it up. 👍
I’ve enjoyed watching your journey rising up through the stakes. Thanks for all the great content.
Thanks Josh. It's been fun
Great thought analysis and as always excellent production quality
your dj skills have been improving !
For the KJcc hand either squeeze or fold pre. Cold calling in the sb is rarely good, esp with this exact hand. Occasionally I will cold call the sb with medium pocket pairs and suited aces when there is a whale at the table who I want to keep in the hand. I'll try to be there friday, look forward to battling it out.
Folding is an awful advice.
Any pro can flat KJs profitably from SB with fish involved in the pot.
Position matters less multiway than HU.
Hate me if you want, but you seem to be brainwashed by GTO 😆
@@paalsandmo9728 great squeeze candidate unless the PFR is extremely tight. Folding is slightly better than calling but it's close. And position DOES matter even more in multiway situations as our hands will realize equity very poorly when we are OOP against the entire table.
Really loved every vlog bro not only I enjoy it help me to improve my game as well. Go great matw
Awesome stuff 👏 keep up with videos always great to watch hope to one day get back to traveling and playing live poker again
Let's go!!! A big W for the sesh. Good to see you run it up in a much bigger game.
Thanks!
Great vlog Mariano! Thank you for posting amazing game sessions.
Hope to meet next month in LA poker rooms.
Another truly superb short film by Mariano. That hand with the three aces on board made me wonder though... Are any casinos offering bad beat jackpots right now? I know The Orleans wasn't as of last month.
Anyway~ keep up the great work, brother.
So nice to see you back!
🙏🏼
Looks like you’ve been spending time in the lab lately... Your play reflects it, Good shit man
Thanks man 👍🏼
Mariano, every time I get A9o, KJo, I raise preflop x2 of antes and one or two people always call... I find myself folding a lot after someone bets and I miss a board with no draws. Maybe I call next time?
no doubt about that, el captain a great vlog in the books........
Gave it a like before watching the vid. Top notch editing 👌
Thanks!
Love your channel man
You should link up w Brad Owen he’s been doing a bunch of collab videos
Ah yes, tagged freeway off ramps. I miss Los Angeles. 🤣
Love the vlogs
Makes you feel at home
oh i am excited to see this video...hoping you win just about to start.
first time viewer, great whole card action!!!
Know the area well. Loved the intro. If poker doesn't work out, go into film... :)
Good stuff as usualy,well done mariano..
Thanks !
On that first hand w/ A2s jw if a 1/4 or 1/3 cbet sometimes would deny some equity from smalls pairs/Ax//KQ hands? Given you can still bend some JT/AT/KT hands ott 1/3 otf then 3/4 ott. Or long term not good? Or even an overbet otf/ shut down on some turns that help his range and continue with cards that help u obv. Idk just wondering
Good stuff, glad to see you playing higher stakes and booking a solid win!
Can you show us how you play when you get weak cards, thanks
On point as always my guy
🙏🏼
@@MarianoPoker can you point me in the right direction of where to edit videos free or cheap? Want to make a Vlog of my own. Thanks! Big fan man keep doing ur thing
I love your channel!
Absolutely love the videos man! The production quality is unmatched 100%
Are there any poker books you’d recommend? Or any poker masterclasses?
Thanks man! I haven't read any books or taken any masterclasses
@@MarianoPoker I appreciate the response! How would you recommend a player transition from a beginner level to a more intermediate level of play?
Love your vlogs. Had to sub.👍
Really liked the intro. you integrated the music really well
Great work as always. Be safe out there.
Another banger sir
🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼
“If he’s bluffing us, congratulations”😂
Mariano masterclass again 🤝
Dope visuals in the beginning, you have a good eye. Do you ever do photography?
Thanks man. No I'm just winging it
No FIGO hands in a while hey? I miss those...
Though I bet you don't Haha
Idk I think that was too corny haha
@@MarianoPoker Man, it's the FIGOs, corny or otherwise in my humble opinion that help separate a channel from the rest, and I was always a fan when they came up. Your channel has plenty going for it without them of course but just saying. Keep up the great work Mariano!
What's a FIGO hand?
@@andyc4685 If you go back in Mariano's poker vlogs, you'll come across the occasional moment where nothing that happened in a specific hand made any sense. These were called FIGO (F*ck Is Going On) hands and were guaranteed to be extra entertaining.
It’s not corny tho for FIGO. I think it indicates pretty exciting hands that would attract more viewers. Hey, one day it might become a term often used by poker players. Fingers crossed 🤞
Great play on the J10s hand. Looks like you got him to fold a low Kx
The AQdd hand with the K club turn was the perfect card, it removed all his Kxcc type of hands, great spot to continue and get value from 2nd pair type of hands and weak aces
Agreed
Why didn't you raise that KJcc hand on the flop in position?
Esp. with KQdd7c flop - pretty draw heavy board and a lot of turns could potentially be bad. Must realise equity on the flop and get more money in and have the betting lead as well.
Would love to hear your perspective on this.
I wasn't in position
Love the music choice! Rattpack all day!
Does he have a license for the music?
@@NoTeaBaggers it’s a mixtape beat, so you don’t need a license to use it for any purposes
@@evanacalkins So he is also a DJ? How does this work? "An important distinction to be made between DJ mixtapes and retail compilations of pop music is that the retail compilations obtain permissions for the use of copyrighted songs contained in the mix, while the DJ usually does not. As a result, mixtapes, such as those produced and sold by club DJs, are illegal."
@@NoTeaBaggers it’s a free mixtape. He produced the music live on twitch. He isn’t copywriting his music so it is free to use for any use. The term DJ is more used for mixing music. Producing in what he does.
@@evanacalkins I guess there is a lot for me to learn about music copyrights. I am only 17 but I will try to learn.
Hey Bubba, Ricky here! This may be one of my favorite vlogs to date. Clear and reasoned decisions presented well. That being said I think you could have gotten called by worse in the 88 hand while in position? Not because he had exactly K5dd but that he could easily have smaller pairs that become bluff catchers. It’s pretty thin but I think a bet of 30% pot will receive a fair amount of crying calls. Also worth noting he will have very few bluffs/check raises here after checking the river. At the very least he folds and you don’t have to table your hand.Be an interesting lab query. .
Could probably be worth considering. Thanks for the kind words Rick, see you soon 👍🏼
Nice 👍 Vlog buddy, good luck 🍀. Love from Malaysia 🇲🇾.
Wow all the way from Malaysia. Thank you!
3rd favourite poker vlogger! Keep uo the good work from melbourne australia.
Guess my top 2
Keep on crushing and betting big! Time for more big pots during those barren poker times!
What would you recommend as study material to get better at Hold’em...?
@mariano
Run it once essential, post flop plus app
I know we don’t want to “blast off” with the As2s, but either a C-bet or smallish C/R seems better imo 🤷🏻♂️
I disagree with a check raise. Cbet seems okay
@@MarianoPoker please don’t listen to people who don’t know anything about ranges, big range advantage for opponent so checking almost full range is totally fine.
@@MarianoPoker how do you feel leading the turn? His flop bet isn’t sized very well
@@MarianoPoker If you don't C bet with that board with the nut flush draw. What flop do you C-bet on then?
@@evan11720 check range is fine
Wish I could subscribe more than once. He is my favorite poker vlogger.
Nice session
See we have to theorize a little bit more on the rationale behind AJ, suited or unsuited. You said that he should have a lot more flushes once it came in on the turn, so you checked it for information but he played it how a "thinking player" would if the lottery landed in your lap. Hindsight is the root of all evil in this game, we know, but I swear Ace-Jack would be the title of a bestseller that materializes the mysteriousness of hands such as that on the button. In the long run, he should probably be betting more, but the super fine line of deceptive playability is my biggest interest.
I like your videos the way you brake it down explaining your decision make a video how mariano studies poker
What happened to the south piont vlog???
I'm so excited to see it bro!
Hours away my friend
Random but during quarantine did you play on the WSOP mobile app as Mariano? Like between April and June?
Can I ask what do you use to Video your sessions? Is it a specific App? Tripod on the camera? What’s your setup?
Do you ever look back on your recordings for any body language/tells by villains? Noticed some interesting body language by villain in the AhJd vs 5s3s hand (on phone, hands crossed on top of each other). Could be reading too much into it lol.
Nah don't really care that much haha
@@MarianoPoker hahaha fair enough! Hope to see you at the tables one day, but NYC is a bit of a ways from Cali/Vegas :/
Hope you come back to The Orleans poker room sometime!
i am confused. how did you win at 10:41? Doesn't the opponent have flush? 5 diamonds?
So Mariano had a full house (AAA,88) because there was three aces on the board. Full house> flush. He only lost to his opponent having a pair of Queens which would have been a higher full house, higher pockets than him, or the 4th ace
@@jackcassedy5579 i see. thank you
Southpoint plays 2/3 and 3/5, good room and usually good action
In my experience, when people are playing on their phone after a bet, it is usually a bluff. Referring to the KJ of Clubs hand.
Interesting point
Or the exact opposite,actually people when bluffing are trying to get unnoticed,most of the time are starring at the board occasionally starring at your soul trying to intimidate you but when they show uninterested in the hand like watching their phone or looking around is a sign of strength. Speaking from personal experience,could be wrong
@@eee4577 Sure, it could be wrong. Regardless, I've found this tell quite reliable in live poker.
@@MarianoPoker As played it’s also a definite call. Best calling hand you’ll ever have in this position. Blocking the nut straight, top two pair and unblocking the flush draw throughout. This is a very exploitable fold
KJ feels like a fold to me.
Unless he’s capable of turning pairs into a bluff, I think he’ll have too much value.
Sizing is also too large for him to have QJ or KJ.
why not bet the JcKc at 8:25?
So is that it? Did u make the leap from 2-5 to 5-10? Love your vids because u keep it real man. 👍
Good solid session 👍🏼
Great commentary
🤓
Very nice session.👍
at 10:44 how did you win if the opponent had a flush draw, is it because you had a full house??? lowkey lost on that hand lol
Yeah I have a full house, he has a flush
Only the haters thumb down a Mariano video.
Thats the exact concept of a downvote hahaha
Mariano, when you bet on the river, if your opponent stares at you, what do you do? Do you stare them back or what? I can't control my nervousness when I bluffed bet on the river, any advise? Thanks
Staring is for pussies. Just play your hand
@@MarianoPoker But when they took like 2 minutes to stare you down, what can you do to stay calm? Any method? My heart would pump so fast and my breathing is not normal.
I just stare at the flop and think about how little poker matters in the grand scheme of things
I notice that you dont get bit by A K, do you ever worry about that though? I see many pros consider this hand first a lot. Just curious your mentality on that.