Pokerstars WBCOOP Main Event Live Blog January 31, 2010
Posted by Jennifer in : poker , 2 comments
4:51- OUT 
Had KK all in vs. 66 and JJ. Jacks hit a heart flush. Anyway, it was fun blogging and playing simultaneously. Maybe I’ll try it more often!
4:20- Doubled up…but not through skill, but someone else’s lack thereof 
4:11-Often already in shipping mode when re-raising. I have~2400 chips and blinds are 30/60 blinds+5 antes
4
- Hula-hoop break, up to 2900 chips.
3:42- Had a few interesting/successful hands, AJo on the cutoff, wasn’t sure whether to go to war preflop with 50 big blinds, but won the hand anyway. Then I had this J9s hand:
3:23-Got AA on the button and re-raised an aggressive player but unfortunately he folded. 2400 chips-100 fewer than I started with.
3:10- The whole tight when tired thing doesn’t apply to online play…I was thinking about the Main Event of the WSOP, where I decided to get some “practice” the night before the big day and ended up bubbling in a Bellagio event at 5 AM (I felt like a big genius). The next day I was floored and a bit tighter than usual. But in an online freeroll, being tired makes you just want to shove at the earliest opportunity. That being said, the challenge of blogging while playing is fun, so I’ll try not to do anything too weird.
3:04- Woohoo, the dudes to my left and right (so far) are indeed, sitting out! A total of five players sitting out at the table, so steal city until further notice…
2:58- Pokerstars WBCOOP Main Event starts in a couple minutes! I hope for many big red aces. (we bought this deck for the Goldilocks shoot) I was up today at 6 AM covering the final round of Corus Chess 2010, which was both a privilege (Congrats to Carlsen for winning the event and to Nakamura for finishing strong!) and an unusually early wake-up for me. Sometimes I play too tight when tired so I’ll be trying to avoid that tendency.
PokerStars WBCOOP Saturday prelim: Live Blogging! January 30, 2010
Posted by Jennifer in : poker , 2 comments4:34: Lost a race with 88 v. ATo and I’m out. Not much to say though ofc villain’s call was horrendous.
Boohoo, better luck to me tomorrow! Tougher hand was this one. Please vote on my correct play on the river:
4:15- Doubled up with 22 vs. A7s, lucky me! Interesting 77 hand…not sure what the right play is on the flop….
3:55-Interesting hand with tons of draws on the river. Lucky not to lose more on this hand- well not losing my stack was the reason I checked rather than bet on the river.
3:40 PM- All in against the button from the BB. AKo vs. AKo, split pot Up to 2380 chips. By far the toughest preliminary I’ve played yet.
3:15 PM- Nothing too eventful so far, was down to 1800 chips, just won a few back with this hand. Would you bet or check the turn? I like betting since it seems my opponent has given up on life (I mean this hand) but checking protects me from getting check-raised. But the chances of me winning with a hand that wouldn’t have improved on the river seem much greater than the chances of him check-raising….
3 PM- First hand of the WBCOOP event #6. A little bummed because in most of the WBCOOP events I played so far, 4-5 players sit out which makes the game so much fun! Raise, raise, raise all the time! Looks like today we have a full table….will continue to post any interesting hands in this post. Wish me luck!
I Will Play in Pokerstars’ Blogger Poker Championship! January 21, 2010
Posted by Jennifer in : poker , 1 comment so far
I have registered to play in the PokerStars World Blogger Championship of Online Poker! The WBCOOP is a free online Poker tournament open to all Bloggers, so register on WBCOOP to play.
Registration code: 793376
Wish me luck!!
A Golden Rule of Homeownership January 20, 2010
Posted by Jennifer in : art, feminism, poker , 1 comment so farA golden rule of homeownership, right next to “no keg parties” is “don’t let a film crew into your house.” I learned the lesson the hard way when filming my latest video art project with DimMak Films. After five minutes of production, a doorknob broke. For the next 14 hours, the cast and crew squeezed between tripods to enter bathrooms, and I hoped not only for good shots, but that the equipment that took up every spare square inch of our house (but somehow never showed up in the shots, hooray!), wouldn’t damage the 100-year-old home I recently bought.
Well, rules are meant to be broken, and I’m really excited about editing and eventually showing this piece. Goldilocks vs. the three bears. Place your bets now.
Pokerstars listens to my thoughts on women in poker! January 12, 2010
Posted by Jennifer in : poker , 1 comment so far
Pokerstars is the only poker site I play on and recommend to friends, because of their generous and consistent sponsorship of the US Chess League. Pokerstars customer support is also legendary, which was emphasized to me recently when I wrote the following letter, politely complaining about mandatory spa packages and training sessions they included for satellites into the Ladies PCA Caribbean Adventure event. An excerpt of my letter:
Women, like men, play poker to get as much value as possible and I didn’t notice many similar packages in WSOP qualifiers or in the other PCA events. I think if you polled women, we’d rather have 15% more prize packages than have the way the money is spent decided for us.
So as far as I understand the package was $1100 (entry fee)+ 900(expenses)+ 1000(Hotel)+ 250(Spa)+ 250(High Heels Poker Training). I think in the future, spa packages and poker training programs that are part of ladies’ event satellites (as great as they sound) should be optional and available for cash-out if desired unless the spa package or training session are included at significant discount rates.
They responded by telling me that maybe next time (for the Monte Carlo EPT series) they would seriously consider running two types of satellites, and the kicker…what was my address, cause they wanted to send me a gift! I wonder what it will be.
Also, poker fans should read my interview with Jeff Sarwer on CLO. It got a lot of positive feedback, which cheered me up in this frigid weather. Next up for me: Covering the Liberty Bell Open for CLO, playing a few tourneys at the Borgata Winter Poker Open, and editing my latest video creation. More on all that soon! Love, Jennifer
