EightFive Birthday: November 16, 1986 Location: Ann Arbor, MI ALL-TIME STATS (more stats) Total Entries: 468 Total Won/Lost: $1,303.33 Total Hours: 526 Earnings/Hour: $2.47 Biggest Win: $252.00 Biggest Loss: -$20.10 ARCHIVE Most Recent April 2008 (17) March 2008 (54) February 2008 (100) January 2008 (52) December 2007 (51) November 2007 (57) October 2007 (39) September 2007 (27) August 2007 (64) July 2007 (29)

Poker Blog for EightFive

January 2008 Log Entries

January 30, 2008, 1AM: Played 5 hours, 45 minutes, Made $0.92 at PokerStars
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (141st out of 975 Players)

Played 8 tourneys tonight; recorded the total time here.  I ran better tonight finally and had 4 cashes but they were all really small.  In a few of the tourneys I lose huge pots just outside the money or just in the money that coulda made my night a lot more successful but I am very happy with my play...I reshoved on people and wasn't afraid to keep the pressure on which allowed me to accumulate nicely in a few tourneys.  My play on the bubble needs to improve still though because this is where I began to lose my stack slowly thus needing to double desperately once we hit the money.  I was pretty card dead in some instances but still I need to be a little more aggressive.  Overall happy with my play though.

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 1:15AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 30, 2008, 1AM: Lost $1.00 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (316th out of 1036 Players)

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 12:23AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 30, 2008, 12AM: Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (22nd out of 116 Players)

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 12:55AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 30, 2008, 12AM: Made $1.85 at PokerStars
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (161st out of 1448 Players)

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 12:16AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 29, 2008, 11PM: Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (42nd out of 209 Players)

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 12:15AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 29, 2008, 11PM: Made $1.63 at PokerStars
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (217th out of 1919 Players)

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 12:12AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 29, 2008, 10PM: Made $0.81 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (77th out of 489 Players)

$1 rebuy, in for 5

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 12:10AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 29, 2008, 10PM: Lost $0.25 at PokerStars
$0.25 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (1,471st out of 3930 Players)

will comment on all of the nights tourneys and total time played on last post.

Last Update: January 30, 2008, 12:09AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 28, 2008, 6PM: Played 2 hours, 30 minutes, Made $1.06 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (191st out of 2585 Players)

shoved from SB with K9 when it folded to me, i had 10x the BB even...i think i could have maybe looked for a better spot but with the big antes he only needs to fold 75% of the time for this to be profitable and given his stack not being much more than mine and being a fairly tight player, i think that he would fold at least 75% of the time there.  instead, this time he woke up with KK and i lose
 
the only thing that makes me think i could have waited was that i was in 5th of 9 at the table so i could have come over the top of smaller stacks and maybe been more successful but i think the play is +EV i am going to post on the forums and see what they have to say
 
edit: the forums overwhelmingly said that this was an obvious shove, so i guess that makes me feel a little better.  it's just been so long since i have had a good score i am starting to question my own play.  i've looked through hand histories and don't find any glaring mistakes but maybe just gamble a little more to get bigger stacks so that i am not looking for a good spot with 8-12x the BB for such a high percentage of the tournament.

Last Update: January 29, 2008, 4:18AM | Permalink (2 Comments)

January 28, 2008, 6PM: Lost $2.20 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (590th out of 1988 Players)

finally i didn't run terrible, just couldn't get anything going and lost a race when i was short....a normal boring tourney! lol

Last Update: January 28, 2008, 6:41PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

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