Yesterday was a bad bad day.
Got into work and an hour later was trying not to vomit over my desk – I’m guess I’d put some bad milk into my morning coffee (ironically a colleague joked with me as I poured it saying, can’t be off, it’s still flowing). Bossman let me go home, but despite the perfect opportunity for pokerage I just didn’t feel like.
Meanwhile during that time S1ndr0me was feverishly grinding away – he had seen the unstoppable machine of my husngs create a real threat to his chances of winning our prop bet. 19:41 precisely I get the email proclaiming his victory. If only I’d played through my nauseous haze I could have won (holds arms to heavens and shouts WHYYYYYY????). Only kidding – S1ndr0me’s heater crushing of NL10 was extremely impressive as we can see on his blog. I’m just grateful that the husngs supplied the padding my roll needed to pay the bet. TBH I saw it coming, S1ndr0me’s been playing extremely well lately. He must be rolled for NL25 now, so hopefully we’ll see him take that on now.
I then had a little chat with Yegor about HU, and we decided to go on a play money HU cash table – cash games obviously being very different to SNG’s – higher stakes, plus easy to lose a ton. We (or I) wanted to see how we stood before joining the big boys.
He proceeded to either 3bet/4bet what seemed like every hand. Bluffs I tried to pull required at least 2 barrels, and frequently he called those down with 3rd or 4th pair to add to his already bloated stack. He raised everything, I hit nothing, and it became a bewildering mugging of bloody proportions.
Finally we stopped (um, he might have stopped out of boredom) with him standing with a 600bb stack. If it had been real money I’d have been royally decimated!
So, a grim day indeed, despite not putting a single real dollar on the table…
Thanks for the really kind words m8. I’m very surprised that it all came together yesterday. And to be honest I’m pretty amazed that I won at all. The possibility of you running away with it was very real.
Dunno wtf is up with that Rush heater tho. It seems like a cash machine to me. sample and all that I know, still very promising
Keep withdrawing until the bank sends their boys round I say!
There’s no reason why rush shouldn’t be a winning format – you might lose a little from having no reads, but is that outweighed by the volume of hands + rakeback? Quite easily I expect – I should imagine it’s now better to consider $/hr as the metric of choice rather than bb/100..
i think thats the way forward for HU SNG. Super aggresive.. needs balls tho,,
hope you’re feeling better
Yegor said I was being aggressive in all the wrong spots – he couldn’t see what I could realistically be representing (it was TPWK every time, ldo!). I lost a few games today, which wasn’t a disaster, but I’m going to put some thought into what he said.
Feeling a lot better – Mother Bessies Jam Roly-poly pudding & custard has remarkable healing powers (provided it’s not shared with anyone else)
it’s interesting how we percieve things differently. i thought you were the one constantly betting and raising and i was only calling or folding
i think my betting lines were standard(for me) – flop cbet – 60ish, turn cbet ~40
and i 3bet you like 5 times for value and 2-3 as bluffs. maybe i had good run of cards so it may seem like every hand..
lol, strange – I was definitely intimidated, but I guess I overcompensated for something that didn’t really exist (I took all the rope I needed to hang myself!).
I had uploaded that play chip session to that hand replayer and was going to go through it at lunch time. Something was wrong and no hands appeared (same for everyone’s replays, so a server fault on their side). I’d really like to find a better session replayer, but there aren’t many around where you can upload a session *and* embed it into the forum…