Play Online Poker EightFive Birthday: November 16, 1986 Location: Ann Arbor, MI ALL-TIME STATS (more stats) Total Entries: 281 Total Won/Lost: $827.55 Total Hours: 339 Earnings/Hour: $2.43 ARCHIVE Most Recent January 2008 (24) December 2007 (51) November 2007 (57) October 2007 (39) September 2007 (27) August 2007 (64) July 2007 (29)

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January 21, 2008, 11PM: Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (55th out of 103 Players)

88v66...never ends

Last Update: January 21, 2008, 11:47PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 21, 2008, 10PM: Played 30 minutes, Lost $3.30 at PokerStars
$3 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (979th out of 1263 Players)

i am really starting to hate poker
 
AQ all in on AQ9 flop he calls with T9 and turns a 9
 
QQ all in pre v 45s and he flops a flush...only two hands i played.

Last Update: January 21, 2008, 11:16PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 21, 2008, 8PM: Lost $12.00 at Full Tilt
$10 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (267th out of 1500 Players)

took a bad beat to be kind of short and then got it in with KQs v A3, flop flush draw and don't get there

Last Update: January 21, 2008, 8:32PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 21, 2008, 8PM: Played 2 hours, Lost $12.00 at Full Tilt
$10 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (290th out of 1550 Players)

i am really sick about this and the other $10 i played tonight....have an ok stack and a guy raises from MP and i shove from the Button with AQ for 23x the BB he calls with KT!!!...course T on the river....216 paid and i was super close inthe other $10 also....if you double cash in this tourney you bonus about $30 so this was really tough to swallow esp. since it was one of my bigger shots.

Last Update: January 21, 2008, 8:31PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 20, 2008, 6PM: Played 2 hours, Made $7.56 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (15th out of 467 Players)

Played pretty good, sucked out mid way through to triple up and after that i just chipped up and took advantage of a few of the ppl who were playing super tight.  the hand i busted out on i started with 27k with 1-2 blinds...one limp from MP and a limp from the SB but 7500 in the pot...the first limper had played very standard abc poker up to this point and i had pushed him off a few hands...i really wasn't worried about the SB so i decided to ship it and hopefully add 25% to my stack...the first limper limped with AA and that was that...i don't know if this was technically +EV or not but I am torn on whether it was a good move...i was going to need to get to about 50 to make the final table and this looked like a good spot to chip up.  i can obv check, miss, and then fold and still have a little bit of time but one more orbit and i would be under 10x the BB with the increasing blinds...anyways, i don't love the shove but i don't hate it either maybe i will feel stronger about it later or post on 2+2 and p5s and see how bad they mock me :)

Last Update: January 20, 2008, 7:06PM | Permalink (3 Comments)

January 20, 2008, 4PM: Played 1 hour, Lost $5.50 at Full Tilt
$5 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (144th out of 359 Players)

two limps and i make it 5x the bb from the button with AA...two calls...flop is 762 rainbow...first guy checks, next guy shoves for twice the pot, i call for all my chips and he flips up 89 and makes the straight on the turn.
 
feel like i am playing great in these 5's...sure would be nice to run decent in one of them to get my confidence back

Last Update: January 20, 2008, 4:14PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 19, 2008, 10PM: Played 20 minutes, Lost $5.50 at Full Tilt
$5 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (385th out of 551 Players)

cooler

Last Update: January 19, 2008, 7:20PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 16, 2008, 1AM: Played 3 hours, Made $3.68 at Full Tilt
$1 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (28th out of 1102 Players)

sigh...99 v 55 for a big stack...flops a 5

Last Update: January 16, 2008, 1:55AM | Permalink (0 Comments)

January 16, 2008, 12AM: Lost $2.25 at Full Tilt
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (22nd out of 100 Players)

really really blew this one, made two pretty terrible plays on bubble to blow a medium stack

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

January 15, 2008, 10PM: Lost $2.20 at PokerStars
$2 Buy-In No-Limit Texas Hold'em Tournament (432nd out of 975 Players)

Got some $ transferred to me on stars so i played this $2 tourney...really weird hand went down when i was still at about my starting stack:
 
5 limps, and i check in BB with 95...Flop=T95 rainbow...i bet 400 (pot was 300) and get two calls and then a guy shoves for 1700...i thought for a min but folded thinking one guy had to have a set or T9....the all in got one call from the 87! the shover had Q5!!!!!!! so that left me in trouble and i couldn't double.
 
i know this was just one tourney but the play that i saw was much worse than full tilt from what i could tell.  i am looking forward to putting in a few more tourneys over there to see what happens.

Last Update: January 15, 2008, 11:56PM | Permalink (0 Comments)

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