Play Online Poker EightFive Birthday: November 16, 1986 Location: Ann Arbor, MI ALL-TIME STATS (more stats) Total Entries: 262 Total Won/Lost: $877.74 Total Hours: 319 Earnings/Hour: $2.75 ARCHIVE Most Recent January 2008 (4) December 2007 (51) November 2007 (57) October 2007 (39) September 2007 (27) August 2007 (64) July 2007 (29)

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January 2008 Log Entries

January 8, 2008, 10PM: Played 2 hours, Made $2.94 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (18th out of 236 Players)

lost a race that woulda put me in a great spot to final table...frustrating.  got lucky early on though but fought a short stack most of the tourney, stayed patient and picked spots but eventually had to shove UTG with JJ with only 8xBB and lost to AK

Last Update: January 8, 2008, 11:00PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 6, 2008, 12AM: Played 1 hour, 30 minutes, Lost $1.00 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (331st out of 1341 Players)

AA v 99...two outter after i took the three outter on the river earlier lol...woulda been my 5th straight cash in the ferg...owell...always tomorrow

Last Update: January 6, 2008, 12:09AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 5, 2008, 11PM: Played 40 minutes, Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (141st out of 300 Players)

AK v AQ, whatcha gonna do

Last Update: January 5, 2008, 10:21PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 4, 2008, 10PM: Played 4 hours, Made $35.00 at U of M
$0.10/0.20 Texas Hold'em

First time we have played in a while and no one was willing to bust...one kid rebought 4 times :)....It was nice to get the game as deepstacked as a good cash game should be after people rebought enough times (most start with $5).  I played ok but not great, missed bets on the river probably 2-3 times and paid off a kid in a spot where i KNEW FOR SURE he had me.  But, i got my money in good 3-4 times and had it hold each time which was nice.  An example of how soft the game is:
 
I'm UTG + 1 and raise pot with JJ, one weak tight player calls on my left and then a really loose player calls on the button.  When it gets to the BB she min-reraised.  I didn't know what to do because this was one of the tighter players at the table and i had one guy to my left who prolly would have called too.  So I min-raise it back knowing the weak-tight player will fold and the loose player will most likely fold because "raise-reraise" is scary to him no matter the size.  At the same time i will be able to find out cheaply where the BB is.  It worked just like i was hoping with two folds and the BB just calling.  The flop came T82 rainbow and the BB checked to me (i now thought she had AK or AQ) and with $7.50 in the pot and $11 left in her stack i decided to just ship it at pick up the $7.50 and not risk an over card hitting that turns me into a nit.  She thought and thought and i told her she could pick either one of my cards to see and so i showed her the J she pointed to and then instead of realizing that i obv. had JJ she thought "probably AJ" and called with AQ.  I dodged the 6 outs and won a big pot.....can't wait til next week.

Last Update: January 5, 2008, 9:51AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

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