Owned
I got owned by Drizz in the first round of HUC2. In the best of three match I actually took the first game before the blinds went up. This while playing another heads-up that I got into by mistake. I slow played aces in the final hand and took down his top pair.
The next two games didn’t go so hot. I was outplayed pretty much the whole way. I got down early and I don’t play well heads-up when I’m behind. Definitely a weakness of mine. Give me a lead and I’ll push chips around like their coming out of my ass, but put me in a come from behind position and I get scared of everything. Note to self for next time I play HU: stay aggressive.
No Recap Coming
I’ve decided against doing a recap of the 2nd place finish because it’s already been 3 days. Recaps need to be typed up soon afterwards because the excitement and my memory is gone.
I remember making 3 mistakes throughout the tournament. The first I can’t remember for the life of me. The second mistake was an attemped blind steal when we were down to about 20 players. I had A6o on the button and ran into AK in the big blind. The board double paired and we split the pot otherwise I was gone. Phew! The third mistake was the costly one. We were playing heads up for a good half hour. Back and forth went the chip lead with solid play from both sides. He raised from the small blind and I decided I was going to push with my A2o. I hadn’t come over the top of him in quite some time pre-flop and I acted too quickly. He called with pocket sevens and I didn’t get any help from the board. Game over.
It Feels Good…
…to get a nice cash in a big tournament. This is my biggest cash so far. It’s 6 in the morning and I’m whooped, so I’ll try to do a proper write up tomorrow at some point.
Blogger Heads Up
I’ll be playing HU2 with a bunch of other poker bloggers. I’ve had good success when I’ve played heads up matches on a few different sites, so I’m looking forward to testing my HU game against better opponents.
32 Cents
$5 + $1 NL Hold’em speed tournament on Party Poker.
1580 people entered the tournament.
I lasted 50 minutes and only saw 9 flops.
Finished in 150th place for a payout of $6.32 and a whopping $0.32 profit.
That’s how you build a bankroll!
The Losing Continues
I’ve run into a series run of losing. 2-5 outters are hitting like Barry Bonds on steroids. Just another example…
Down to 4 in a $10 SNG and I pick up big slick. I put in a raise to 3x the BB. The big blind goes all-in with A9 suited. I flop a K and he’s drawing dead. The only way he can beat me is with running nines…and of course they come. I’m out on the bubble. I was a 98.9% favorite to win that hand. Damn 1.1%…fucker gets me every time!
Back to limit
Lately I’ve been trying to build my bankroll back up after a horrible streak of bad beats online in the past week or two. I was playing .25/.50 no-limit hold ‘em on Full Tilt, but was getting a pretty bad run. After visiting the casino these past weekends, I decided to try my luck at limit hold ‘em again, playing mostly 1/2 tables. It’s worked pretty well so far, as I’ve won money each time I’ve sat down so far. Even if I play for 10 minutes between classes, I usually win $5-10, which is nice. So far I’m up about $120 in the past 3-4 days, and only played a total of about three hours.
I also played a $50+5 this weekend and finished just inside the bubble, 8th place for $99, which was pretty damn good considering I was down to 150 chips less than an hour into the tournament, so it was quite the comeback. I made a stupid play after I was reraised preflop when I had JJ, so I called. The flop came down all rags, but pairing the board, so I bet and was reraised all-in, I had a feeling I was beat, but called anyways, and sure enough he had KK. That was the beat that took me down to 150, but I made it to the final, and won some money, so I can’t be completely disappointed.
One-on-One
Tonight I played a total of 6 heads-up SNGs on Bodog, ranging from $5 to $30. I won 4 out of 6 and finished up $25 for the night. I’m going to concentrate on playing a lot of these for awhile as well as other SNGs and MTTs. I need a change from the limit games for a bit. Maybe I’ll be able to shake off the bad beats I kept running into at the 6-max games.
I felt good about my play tonight. One of the losses came when I had to push with K♠J♠ againstA♣2♣. After the turn I had an open-ended straight draw, a flush draw, and a K or J for the win. That’s 21 outs if I added right. Can’t ask for a much better draw.
I find that in these heads up battles I fare the best if I’m aggressive, because then I’m able to trap the other player at some point. They see you raising and raising, so when you don’t come at them, they won’t believe you when you come over the top of them. All they remember is the constant aggression and when you come out with the passive play it automatically means weakness. This doesn’t work against the aggressive opponents though, so I just try to use their constant aggression against them with a few bluff raises.
If I had some long term results I think I’d find out that I win much more often against passive players than aggressive ones.
Absent
I was absent from the Poker Blogger tournament last night for three reasons:
- I didn’t feel like playing poker.
- I had TV shows to watch.
- I didn’t want to sign up for Titan Poker just to be able to play.
Why do the blogger events move to a new site each time?
Drunken Poker
After a night out I got home at 2:30 and for some reason thought it would be a good idea to play some online poker. SNGs on Bodog were the game of choice. After placing 3rd in one out of 4, I decided to try some heads-up. I won a $50 and then a $20, both in less than a 10 minute period. I won’t be playing poker for the rest of the day, so I finally have a winning day on the books. Wooohooo!! The players in the heads-up SNGs are usually pretty bad. Just before I won the $50 SNG last night the other player commented in chat, “Do you raise every hand?”
Here fishy fishy…
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