Dammit! I thought I was doing really well at the $5 4man shootouts – $100 up after 20 odd games.
Turns out HEM has a bug – any time that I went out in the first round it was recording the match as a regular 2man HU match. So when I filtered my results on just 4mans those games weren’t included.
No wonder I was doing so well, but it explains I was getting frustrated that I couldn’t continue my 4man success when trying $10 single 2man HU matches. How depressing, it seems that I’m still crap at poker.
Update: It gets worse. I figured I’d experiment and see how far just value betting would take me. I’d still throw a few bluffs in, but just in obviously high FE spots.
Didn’t make any difference at all. It seemed to be an endless series of missed flops and villains with constant made hands.
In my last game the only hand I got that I’d consider ‘big’ was a straight, plus trips once was nice. The rest were weak pairs. My opponent got 2 flushes, 2 straights and also hit trips. It just felt like he never missed.
It’s felt that way all evening – I’ve played 11 games and only won 3. So I pushed all my opponents from today into one alias in HEM, and compared showdowns;
| me | them | |
| Boats | 4 | 3 |
| Flushes | 1 | 5 |
| Straights | 2 | 8 |
| Sets | 1 | 1 |
| Trips | 3 | 2 |
| 2pair | 5 | 6 |
| 2pair (pair on board) | 18 | 21 |
| TP | 9 | 7 |
if straights+ are monsters, then they had 16, and I had 7. Obviously value betting isn’t enough, I’m going to need some kind of hole card spyware…
or, maybe I’m going to showdown too light? More to think about.
