Heads up - Why I shouldn't play it

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Korea (South). Oct 16 2007 12:22. Posts 6817

Soooo a few days ago I decided that hey, playing heads up would be fun. Played a tiny mini session 2 days ago, ran hot, won a buyin. Played a long session vs some maniac who would 3bet every hand and never fold to 4bets..

Well:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295337 - wee

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295338 -

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295974 - Inducing~_~

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295329 - Snapcalls my shove with K6o.. lol

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295332 - awful, AWFUL play by me. Bet bigger turn, bet smaller river, fold to shove.
Probably.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295333 - had a read he would check behind any strong hand on the turn so I decided to shove. Unfortunately he had a pair and not air.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295335 - Mmmk

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295473 - Decided I'd had enough.

And vs someone else:
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295983 - MASTERFULLY PLAYED BY ME.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295342 - I thought he had a draw here, but turns out I rivered his KT. This led me to doing the same thing again later in the session.. with the same result.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295344 - Oops.

And someone else..
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295466 - Awesome start to the match!!

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295464 - Backdooring like a true champ.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295465 - Bleh, bad raise size on the flop.

And from today:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295797 - Plan was to float, possibly pickup a clubdraw on turn, and bluff river if he checked twice (which I felt he might). When second heart appeared I knew he continues betting with 1 heart so I decided to proect and raised him. Blah the betsizing should have tipped me off tho.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295798 - 2 hands later (after splitting a KT vs KT allin for 2$ :D).

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295799 - 1 hand later.
I'm good.

Ok so at this point I decided I suck at heads up, so I played some 1/2 6 max instead, where I proceeded to run at like 40/30 for a while (settling down at 30/28, and eventually ending up at 24/21 total).

Did good:

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295989 - Oops
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295951 - Ship

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295966 - <3 gundersen
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295967 - <3333

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295968 - Bah, too bad it came before I could reload from the hand before.

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295970 - Awkward amounts of money left.. How would you play this?
http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295969 - No idea what this guy was doing here..

http://www.liquidpoker.net/h/295993 - Very low AF on later streets IIRC, so figured I could safely call and check it down if he didn't have me beat.

Bought a pretty watch a couple of weeks ago, nothing expensive (about 250-300$ I guess?) but I thought it looked nice!

I'm gonna give heads up another shot later (as in much later, as in a few weeks..) most likely, cause it's fun, and I think I'll stick to 1 table. I start playing waaaaay too fast even when just 1 tabling.

Also, I think I'm gonna try to learn how to play limit (watched some Stoxtrader and Schneids limit videos and it really looks very fun), not sure what stakes I should start at to learn tho. My whole limit experience comes from playing the lowest stakes on stars for fun (those have to be the softest games anywhere on the planet btw).

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Hm.. Off-suite socks..

Last edit: 16/10/2007 12:33

The72o Zimbabwe. Oct 16 2007 12:31. Posts 6112

HU ownz

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Cro)Deadman Croatia. Oct 16 2007 12:33. Posts 3943

love da watch,GL FA

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ggplz Sweden. Oct 16 2007 12:41. Posts 16784

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