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a) I have the better hand. I don’t think he flopped a set (not on that board) and he doesn’t have Aces.
b) If I push all-in here, this guy just might call. I didn’t have a good read on him (it’s hand 2 of the tournament) but that min raise move is very amateurish and that smells like a donkey to me.
I push all-in, he calls and flips over pocket eights?!?! Rag, rag and I double up on the second hand. Life is good.
Around 5:30am I simply can’t stay awake anymore. I say screw it and go to bed. I wake up in the morning to find out I blinded out in 102nd place (out of about 550).
Lesson: It’s not enough to be awake for the start of the tournament. You need to make sure you can follow through until the end if you’re going to sit down.
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Hi, my name is Bill Rini and this is my poker blog. I've been blogging about poker and the poker industry since around 2003-ish. Like most people I started out playing poker as entertainment in home games whenever we wanted to sit around and smoke cigars, drink beer, and eat pizza, and needed a good excuse. I started playing online shortly after the first online card rooms opened and it wasn't long before I was playing 20, 30, or even 40 hours a week or more. One day I received a phone call about a program manager position at Tiltware which was the company that consulted to Full Tilt Poker on software development and marketing. After Tiltware I spent about 2.5 years working at Party Poker where I was the poker room manager.
