One Bad Session and I’m Homeless - My Marriage Is on the Line | Ep 16

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If you're new to our channel, we are Marc Goone (the guy in the videos) and Gethen Jacobs (the guy who doesn't enjoy being in videos), and we are the co-founders of Hungry Horse Poker. Here's our background:
Marc began playing live poker in 2015 and built his initial bankroll playing $1/2 live. In 2017 he began playing full time in LA, where he quickly climbed stakes to the biggest publicly accessible games ($10/20/40). He began commentating for Live at the Bike and Hustler Casino Live, which allowed him to play as big as $200/400.
Gethen began playing online poker over a decade ago where he worked his way up from $7 Sit 'N Go's to $5k Turbos. During the pandemic he mostly played 1k and 2knl cash games online and won north of 8bb/100. He also began to play some of the largest private games in LA, where he regularly played as big as $400/800.
Gethen and Marc met in 2021, and quickly bonded over a shared approach to the game. In late 2022, they began offering 28 Day Bootcamps to help serious players climb to high stakes just like them, and Hungry Horse was born.
DISCLOSURE
We make these videos to make money, but on a longer time horizon. We want beginner and intermediate players to learn from these videos and start winning NOW, so when they are ready to climb to high stakes they come to Hungry Horse to take the next step.

[@thusspokekayvon]

Love the stack status / time updates along the way. Good addition.

[@hungryhorsepoker]

thanks! we worked hard on those

[@TotallyTribal]

Going to say the same thing! Very nice to have updates as you watch

[@havenrab]

Great content - you’re currently running way above ev in db bomb pots - though you’re opponents are horrendous - good rule of thumb in db bomb pots Is if your can’t bet out raise your opponent’s on 4 th st you’re probably in mid or shit spot

[@NeuroticNOOB]

Totally agree, status and time update are very nice.

[@theduffman9834]

Really cool addition👍

[@darren2351]

Showing the losing sessions is super critical to the transparency of the channel. Thank you!! The 8 9 vs KK hand ime villains line is often the result of being card dead for a while

[@Declan4253]

Could not agree more.

[@travistowell7149]

89 suited guy is a gangster!

[@hungryhorsepoker]

ya i agree

[@simplyxskilled]

FOR THE VLOG

[@illegitimate0]

He blocked A8 and A9, was a smart squeeze.

[@NeuroticNOOB]

​@illegitimate0 if he can get KK to fold it is an auto 4 bet xD

[@tlsvideos6203]

Had blockers to 83 off/83 suited, great play for sure

[@Mossy5150]

You know what blows me away, this isn't just some of the best hand analysis on the Internet, it's also delivered in a teaching format that makes this strategy repeatable. You repeat yourself constantly in these videos, talking through each hand in the same basic way, which cements the muscle memory for viewers working on their street by street decision making

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰🥰 hopefully it’s not too repetitive!

[@leehjones]

Marc folds KK to the 5bet shove, your man turns up 9c8c and says "Look at that sweet baby there." Marc all 🤯

[@billbollow7378]

I love whoever decided to bring you a hungry horse drawing. Great content as always, another +1 for the update tracker at the top of the screen!

[@karlosmoreno3821]

Corey eyring b like

[@fryoungtrad]

I see that guy on my tables sometimes playing .5/1

[@karlosmoreno3821]

@ where?? Need dat!

[@boss_dd1081]

Love the new graphic at the top with session time. always excited to see hungry horse upload.

[@hungryhorsepoker]

thanks! worked hard to build those im glad u like em

[@fransfermont6193]

Marc, your vlogs have improved my game tremendously. I can not thank you enough for your great work! The only thing i hope is that you get enough appreciation from other people as well to continue making these wonderful vlogs. 👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰🥰🥰 this series is almost over, but we’ll have something new and exciting (at least to me!) coming soon

[@fransfermont6193]

@@hungryhorsepoker 👍👍👍👍❤❤❤❤

[@jakebaker3344]

Subscribing solely b/c you showed that KK fold. He put you in a tough spot. Showing the loses is what helps everyone learn. Don’t change that!

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰🥰

[@ProducerYousiff]

It’s simple, hungry horse uploads, I watch

[@hungryhorsepoker]

omg

[@jacobellis3932]

Not too late to include the bad beat jackpot win in your hourly! 😂 Loving the vlogs, and so grateful for all ridiculously high quality free coaching!

[@1312Mork2]

You have some real table talk gems. Especially the voting weight limit question is strong

[@coratoraYT]

I laughed so hard at "I thought I was the weasel in the weeds..." That was a brutal hand.

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@SoyCaudillo]

@marc, thanks for showing this side of poker, I’m also in a tad 60 hour downswing, I stopped playing and took a break, was feeling meh because my stats and results started to look bad. Went back in today and booked a great win, thanks for sharing your thoughts and being apart of this journey I’m embarking on.

[@GreasyNeilTyson]

Folding KK pre flop in a cash game is nuts

[@CourtesyFlush-ms8bq]

That bomb pot was savage.

[@DeclanTurner-v9c]

Great video, thanks Marc! Looking forward to see what comes next after this series ends ❤

[@SpiteBellow]

I love the vids, been watching all of them. The pacing is great and your personality comes through right along with the hand reading. Really amazing channel honestly. My only ask is if you can put the double board bomb pots as bonus hands bit at the end. I'm finding myself skipping through them and coming back later. It kind of pulls the focus away from the strategy talk imo.

[@anthonyn.5203]

Holy shit 89 dude is the GOAT

[@BlueShift2132]

Come for the poker insight, stay for the Tesla shade.

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰

[@burgercheezes]

Fire poker content. So much to learn with.

[@bricenbangs275]

love a man who can admit to the clickbait

[@luminrabbit9488]

Stay positive Marc, you can do it!

[@eugeneahmad5459]

I appreciate u showing these sessions.... I go throughout these! Wanted to see how u delt with getting pipped

[@federalmayhem]

The Tesla comment resonated within me 😆

[@eldad4446]

$65 an hour is super solid at low stakes high raked games. It's tough to do - when I did 2/5 I had about 7000 hours at around $45 an hour so it's better than my win rate. That said, I still think those double board bomb pots are pulling you miles ahead of the average 2/5 game. I spent 2 weeks in texas playing them, and my win-rate catapulted playing soft 1/2 and 2/5 games - I did over $6k in profit in 2 weeks - even contemplated moving there, but I never did - but do like to take trips there from time to time.

[@yuhyuhtheindigo7085]

The bombs may be a great way to improve winrate but the truth is Marc is not very good at them. He overvalues marginal hands with little opportunity to improve and fails to consider the reverse implied odds of runouts that will nut other players. At my local we have a bomb only game, and in that game he would be considered a fish

[@eldad4446]

@@yuhyuhtheindigo7085 Doesn't mater, the players he plays against are so bad you can be a mediocre omaha player and print. I study a lot of Omaha and Omaha GTO on JNandez site and it doesn't really help much at stakes this low since all the pots are multiway but it helps a little. He's gonna need a lot of run good to keep an hourly up- but i've seen people sun run for 2000 hours so it can be done. If you just nut peddle the omaha hands - someone will pay you off. I agree he screws up some of them but it hardly maters.

[@hallumm]

Nice video series. I just noticed the updates that you started putting at the top of the videos. I was thinking I hadn't noticed it before, then realized it was a new addition to the videos. I am commenting because there is an error on your totals at the end of the video. The total that you show at the end of session 2 are the same as the totals at the end of session 1. It shows 242 hours 31 minutes, +$15,560, $64.16/hr. The correct totals should be: 251 hours 28 minutes, +$16,912 , $67.25/hr. I wanted to thank you for these videos. I am usually an ABC player, but using some of your strategies, instead of winning $150-$200 in my weekly game, I won $615 last week!! It was a blast. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you,!

[@Dumballa]

I love this. Really hope you keep going. ☺️

[@hungryhorsepoker]

3 more to go!!

[@Dumballa]

@@hungryhorsepoker Looking forward to it. Sad it’s coming to an end. But alas, all good things.

[@TrackinDaMeta]

love this show. Im rooting for you. Lets go!

[@hungryhorsepoker]

bles u

[@MichaelDevinCawvey]

Just found your content and love the way you do commentary. Weird to jump from ep 7 to ep 16 to comment and see it is pretty similar total winnings, but that’s variance. I’m not sure how they go ep 8-16, but your winnings off PLO bomb pots were at least 4.5-5k in the first 7 episodes (I was lazy and just totaled it by looking at numbers and halving the pot for wins/losses and counting chops as net 0, which with dead money and multiway pots is WAY under valuing your winnings and over estimating losses in PLO bomb pots). If those numbers continued over the next 8 episodes I’m really curious if you think you even clear 50/hr over the 200 or so hours without PLO pots. Definitely highlights how important the as you said “this game isn’t my best game” game is to winning because players study and play the game they showed up for, but are just bad at the game they don’t study so your edge is magnified. Love the content, thanks for putting this out!

[@Saomaro007]

Still loving it, having alarm on your vlog keep em coming! Amazing content thankssssssssssssssssssssssssss *heart*

[@hungryhorsepoker]

boom

[@Nairby-SLA]

That first double board bomb pot was sick. You were less than 1 percent to get scooped vs 7642.

[@PhoenixTTD]

Some short stackers in low stakes are that way so they can call without facing big bets. But others are broke and are bluffable till they are ready to go home.

[@1312Mork2]

Hahahaha here for the bomb pots only

[@theadventuresofslim3057]

I think the 98 of clubs just wanted to make the vlog, and show off to his buddies. If you're not vlogging this is 99.9% AA. The whole table knowing they can watch this session later and show it to their friends is an extra variable you need to consider.

[@maliksealy5153]

Tesla read is spot on!

[@vanlifefpv6340]

Have you ever played on a Hustler Casino Live stream? You seem to be there all the time.

[@JuNkiz]

From 10€ from 100€ in one week online poker in cash game !! With learning from u thanks from FRANCE 🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷🇫🇷

[@ML-sj3gi]

After playing with someone for an hour or two, how much info do you have on them, and what are the key things you are looking for? Ie. What key bits of info should i focus on getting?

[@Mascovipi]

Love the way you explain thinking processes Also I think as viewers bad beats are more fun and relatable 😂❤

[@SoyCaudillo]

@Raver best interview so far, 😂😂😂😂

[@travistowell7149]

Marriage is plus ev folks!

[@hungryhorsepoker]

tru

[@KyroX3000]

Can you give some info about the rake structure in those games? Where I play there is a rake of 5% with a cap of 8bb. How is that compared to where you're playing?

[@dankimball42]

What’s the intro song? I want the full song!

[@johnk7125]

You looked so cute and happy after your raver interview😂

[@canuck-co1kb]

Kyle Raver is super cool and has a Zach Galifinakis vibe.

[@VegasEbikes]

When you know it's clickbaot but still watch lol

[@lonewolf73350]

Fully agree about the Tesla drivers! LOL

[@richarddiani5856]

Maybe I'm an idiot but I would just fold to the 50$ bet in the bomb pot when the 6 comes in for a possible quads. You got 5 players in the hand, all of them have 4 cards. Easy fo any one of them to have a 6 and you have nothing going on on the other board. So you're fighting for half the pot in a spot where you're just dead to a 6 and they can super easily have one. On the assumption that if they did have a 6 they would bet the flop... I don't think they would. If it's not a strong 6 and they have nothing going on in they other board, they're in a similar situation where they're fighting for half the pot and losing to any other player with a better 6 Which is definitely a possibility. So I think most players would check and hope to fill out on the turn before taking aggressive action.

[@hungryhorsepoker]

no i’m the idiot, i agree with fold

[@richarddiani5856]

@@hungryhorsepoker For what it's worth I appreciate that you put yourself out there to teach us and possibly look stupid at times. Sick and unique content, no one's playing the way you do in their vlogs, it's really eye opening

[@BlackSheep_216]

Had a tough low stakes game tonight. Man Im due for a good night.

[@benjaminsmith6063]

I’ve folded kings pre flop twice . Both times I was right, or at least they had Aces.

[@abrahamc3057]

I can't stop starring at that dude with the missing finger tip lol

[@hungryhorsepoker]

that’s my cousin laramie

[@noahchoi1213]

Holy shit that KK vs 98 hand was crazy

[@hungryhorsepoker]

i didn’t like it that much

[@christopherhabetler9927]

Hey man. Thank you! How would I assess if I’m good enough to do a boot camp with you all? Is there a simple answer to the question? I’ve watched all your videos and love them, but am def not able to construct the lines / assign and adjust ranges quickly (or at all) when I play live

[@hungryhorsepoker]

fill out the form on our website and we’ll tell you!

[@antoinevadeboncoeur103]

9-8S got my jaw dropping dead lmao

[@wesleysavage444]

I appeared you teaming me how to win. Thank you Mr.

[@dillona3215]

Not me watching this on the way to work in my tesla 💀

[@selena6112]

Keeping it real❤

[@chrisrose5596]

I commend the kings fold but if I get it in pre with kings and they have aces oh well i didn't play bad i was just unlucky

[@sonsofthesportsguy]

The worst drivers on the planet are the STL drivers with Joy FM bumper stickers. 100% fact.

[@santosallday25]

When players donk multi-way they are strong. 2 seconds later u raise him on the wet flop? That’s awful

[@ea7side]

Burning money in a lot of these lines

[@peternguyen1911]

That’s messed up. He said “I love you” and you said okay

[@raverpoker]

Dude seriously he put his heart on the line and all Marc can muster is OKAY!?? He probably doesn't even know what love means anyways! Even if that person would love him unconditionally, be there for him NO MATTER WHAT, he has no problem just stepping all over their heart and then posting it for everyone to see... He's a MONSTER, unsubscribed!

[@danradke98275]

@@raverpoker lmao we love you though !

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰🥰

[@BNBPoker]

The clickbait was not cool 😢

[@leehjones]

Where's the funny voice and gfx overlay at the PLO DBBP at 3:00?

[@hungryhorsepoker]

it wasn’t a big pot!

[@mfdaviddeery]

He couldn't wait to show you the five bet bluff! I believe they call it "vlog equity" when players try to outplay you and bluff light. Don't think you'll be folding kings anytime soon after that one.

[@hungryhorsepoker]

yep!

[@dashingmlg601]

Great tesla commentary at the end lol

[@patrick_kyker]

It's probably a good check though cuz he's never folding, and you certainly can't get called by worse.

[@bankrollbilly]

This is my life everyday as a pro online only player

[@realjoeroessler]

Isn’t it funny how the cards don’t care about your skills? But being up 15k is pretty smooch. Smoochies

[@zen23ish]

The tesla... Get em crazy horsey!!

[@theElvin_T]

I fold kk there 99.9% with KK - that 89 made my stomach turn form shock

[@rockypoon1469]

Keep creating great content. P.S. I drive a tesla and yes thats what we do =]

[@Fatpigkenny]

Only time I folded Kings was against UTG, I 4b UTG+1 and UTG 5b

[@jeremymigliaccio3196]

I need to come to boot camp this coming year going to reach out

[@Kimba33]

I mean, you're the expert here, but I would argue that just because someone plays tight for 2 hours doesn't mean he only 5-bets Aces. Folding Ks is something I would only do against the Uber Uber Uber Nit (to be fair, I never did it)

[@patrick_kyker]

33:10 it's still an under the gun open.

[@shawnfogelman6847]

No Marc, the worst drivers on the Roads drive Toyota Prius.

[@PhilipJReed-db3zc]

8:18 Marc, you are an excellent hold'em teacher analyzing PLO hands like a HE player and I suspect it's starting to catch up with you. You do not have a strong hand on both boards here. An OESD on a board with a two-flush you don't have is a dubious 6-out draw subject to losing to river redraws (flush or board pair, but in this case some of the board pairs could be good for you).Top and bottom helps a little more than usual because of the extra jack up top cutting down on JT but "strong hand" is a bit much, more like fragile made hand and weak draw. Top two (top board) is a tricky hand to value in PLO. Much of its value comes from blocking the top two sets. Anyway it's possible you have the best hand on both boards here but they are both hands that are hard to make hold up until the river and so few bad players are folding in these bomb pots. There may be a case to be made for the XR to protect a marginal hand, but that's not what you're verbalizing in the video. I think you were winning a lot at DBBP as of a couple of weeks ago, not sure now. That could be a combination of PLO variance through the roof and much of the player pool being atrocious. I think you said you don't really like PLO, but it's such a big part of your videos that you need to find a PLO coach either for you or to vet the content.

[@danradke98275]

Throughout the series he has actually played these hands a bit suspect I think and has gotten a ton of +EV from atrocious players dumping their stacks while not knowing what they're doing. I've never seen him mention the concept of a push/pull hand, and a few times he's declared top boat as the nuts when quads are easily available, etc.

[@justinron1772]

They are watching and learning what you are doing time to change up a little

[@defullvan6325]

89s dude is diabolical

[@hungryhorsepoker]

ya!!!

[@raymclaughlin4919]

Nissan Altima drivers are worst. Love your vlogs.

[@Deucely]

Bro learned a new word today, and so have I, thank you, lmfao.

[@hungryhorsepoker]

wut is it

[@Deucely]

@@hungryhorsepoker Heuheuheuristics obviously.

[@joshsheppard21]

Lmao I would have folded kings there too lmao he def was out to get on the vlog

[@billthecanuck]

i'd be curious to know how much of your profit is from those PLO bomb pots... maybe it's a wash but i feel like they inflate your numbers quite a bit. could be wrong idk, dont have the info ;) bomb pots where i play are just holdem, and don't go as crazy usually.

[@NeuroticNOOB]

The issue is that these pots make up over 1/3 of the time playing as they take longer as usual hands. At least I think that is what Marc said. If he excluded them he would also shorten his win rate (or he needs to adjust winrate with some calculations)

[@billthecanuck]

@@NeuroticNOOB yeah i get that, and i get why he includes them, i'm just curious what the numbers would be if they were excluded haha.

[@PhilipJReed-db3zc]

I don't have a problem with him including them. But some of his reasoning isn't great coaching for PLO or for split pots games. This suggests he's running pretty good, although NLHE opponents are so absolutely terrible at these that *any* adaptation at all makes him one of the better DBBP players at the table. Also for those of us who live somewhere without them, it makes the $100 benchmark kind of useless in our non-BP games since it's apples and oranges.

[@NeuroticNOOB]

@billthecanuck me too but it seems to be quite the effort to measure time and money won in these pots separately. We'll he recorded it all so it should be possible to calculate them out of the winrate...(I mean adjusting the winrate per hour by actually just counting time spent on holdem and money won in holdem pots).

[@xiangliang2]

any plans to sell t shirts with the hungry horse on them

[@hungryhorsepoker]

maybe hoodies!

[@AllanahFigueroa]

Sir u play 5-5 u never going broke 🤣🤣🤣🤣 u can literally work at McDonald’s for a week and u back in action bby let’s goooo

[@matthewkim9562]

Why is that guy with nines not likely to have flopped a flush?

[@pugsnhogz]

all squished tomatoes and chobani zero percent fat greek yogurt aside, I can think of no vlogger with whom I'd rather be unmarried and homeless than Marc Goone

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰🥰

[@guillermoalvarez9400]

Have you thought about switching up casinos (where they may not know your tendencies) or at least playing on evenings and weekends to target softer games, or does he challenge have to be met against familiar semi-competent opponents?

[@hungryhorsepoker]

i thought about it but i like hustler and most other casinos won’t let me film. i could maybe have slightly better results if i played better times and game selected, but i don’t really care too much about the results. that’s for everyone else. i just want to demonstrate the strategies and way of thinking works!

[@guillermoalvarez9400]

Would love to see you film a game at Lucky Lady down the street. The 2/3 is only 500 max but plays a lot bigger, plus there’s the livestream for the bigger game

[@hungryhorsepoker]

@@guillermoalvarez9400 i played a 5/5 session at lucky lady in the final episode, coming soon!

[@MaximusMerideus]

You heard him, his wife is in charge and only allows him to play during the day. My wife also wears the pants but doesn't allow poker anytime. Though, she spends a lot of time with her young personal trainer and, now that I think about it, our newborn sure resembles him?

[@NeuroticNOOB]

​@MaximusMerideus your comment escalated quickly. You sure should think about your relationship of this is true.

[@cameronthede4959]

Kings hand flop would have been 999 for sure dw about it

[@Highseinberg]

well it was only a matter of time Marc.... goooodluck on the wife hunt! -Darrel

[@hungryhorsepoker]

thank u!

[@pokerbosscycler]

98 cc is one of your students. 🎓 with honors

[@michaelstephens9852]

Anything above $50 per hour deserves a kiss on the mouth

[@hungryhorsepoker]

will u do it

[@michaelstephens9852]

​@hungryhorsepoker yes.😂

[@HaviccB]

You look like the Gregnant guy..

[@ScoutrunnerTopic]

“No thank you 😌💅”

[@hungryhorsepoker]

🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@zacharywatts-p3q]

Tesla drivers always get in front of you because they're fast AF and you're driving what appears to be a busted Corolla. Love the content though, lol.

[@twomarks94]

You're wrong - BMW drivers are the least courteous

[@Mossy5150]

More eating Chobani with a fork content please

[@hungryhorsepoker]

yes coming soon