Last night I tried my hand at it again and felt truly blessed to have a true and complete donk to bash heads with.
In fact it was easy riding for the first hour playing where I busted him over and over again to increase my $100 starting stack to over $550. He was an awful player and at some point he began shoving in preflop over and over again. When someone shoves $110 into your $1 big blind you can afford to fold quite a few times as long as you win when you call.
The first time I called he flipped up 86o which luckily bricked out against my AJ. Several hands later I called him with A5s and he showed up with A7 to take the pot down and finally double up at which point he started playing somewhat more carefully. Perhaps surprisingly the call with A5s was probably not a great idea even though I think he was shoving at least %80 of his hands if not more. Fact is A5s is just a %57.8 favorite over his top %80 of hands (which includes 95o, 34s and up) which is more then enough edge in a vaccum, but for the purposes of this session it increased his stack to a size that could actually be a threat to mine and made for some very uncomfortable situations against this maniac.
The next hand he won I'm still scratching my head over. The problem was that I was busting him over and over again by slow playing my big hands and calling his inevitable shove. This made it really hard for me to make the lay down that I wish I had made here:
***** Hand History for Game 13404208520 ***** (Full Tilt)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 15, 04:50:01 ET 2009
Table Crazy (heads up) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: rrich508 ( $237.20 USD )
Seat 2: J4bberW0cky ( $507.80 USD )
rrich508 posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
J4bberW0cky posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to J4bberW0cky [ Jh Jc ]
rrich508 raises [$4.50 USD]
J4bberW0cky raises [$18.00 USD]
rrich508 calls [$14.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Jd, 9h, 9s ]
J4bberW0cky checks
rrich508 checks
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qd ]
J4bberW0cky checks
rrich508 checks
** Dealing River ** [ Qc ]
J4bberW0cky bets [$9.00 USD]
rrich508 raises [$218.20 USD]
J4bberW0cky calls [$209.20 USD]
rrich508 shows [Ac, Qs ]
rrich508 wins $473.90 USD from main pot
J4bberW0cky doesn't show [Jh, Jc ]
Eww is probably the best way to describe it. From there it just got worse as he proceeded to crack every big pair I got. This guy was so aggro I just couldn't find folds in any of these spots.
***** Hand History for Game 13404561680 ***** (Full Tilt)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 15, 05:40:14 ET 2009
Table Crazy (heads up) (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Seat 1: rrich508 ( $683.40 USD )
Seat 2: J4bberW0cky ( $105.00 USD )
J4bberW0cky posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
rrich508 posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to J4bberW0cky [ Kd Ks ]
J4bberW0cky raises [$2.50 USD]
rrich508 calls [$2.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ 7c, Js, Td ]
rrich508 checks
J4bberW0cky bets [$5.00 USD]
rrich508 raises [$15.00 USD]
J4bberW0cky raises [$28.00 USD]
rrich508 raises [$665.40 USD]
J4bberW0cky calls [$69.00 USD]
rrich508 shows [Ts, 7s ]
J4bberW0cky shows [Kd, Ks ]
rrich508 wins $578.40 USD
** Dealing Turn ** [ 9d ]
** Dealing River ** [ Tc ]
rrich508 wins $209.50 USD from main pot
***** Hand History for Game 13404510542 ***** (Full Tilt)
$100.00 USD NL Texas Hold'em - Wednesday, July 15, 05:32:48 ET 2009
Table Crazy (heads up) (Real Money)
Seat 1 is the button
Seat 1: rrich508 ( $667.60 USD )
Seat 2: J4bberW0cky ( $116.70 USD )
rrich508 posts small blind [$0.50 USD].
J4bberW0cky posts big blind [$1.00 USD].
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to J4bberW0cky [ Kc Kd ]
rrich508 raises [$2.50 USD]
J4bberW0cky raises [$9.00 USD]
rrich508 calls [$7.00 USD]
** Dealing Flop ** [ Qs, 3c, 6s ]
J4bberW0cky bets [$13.00 USD]
rrich508 calls [$13.00 USD]
** Dealing Turn ** [ Qc ]
J4bberW0cky checks
rrich508 checks
** Dealing River ** [ Ac ]
J4bberW0cky checks
rrich508 checks
J4bberW0cky shows [Kc, Kd ]
rrich508 shows [6h, Ah ]
rrich508 wins $45.50 USD from main pot
And so on and so on. Looking at HEM I can see right now that I:
Lost $155.55 with AA which I recieved once
Lost $143 with KK which I recieved three times, losing all three!
Lost $333.20 with JJ which I recieved twice, losing both!
Lost only $30 with QQ which I recieved once!
And so on. I think I lost with every pocket pair all said and done and it's just amazing! Maybe that's why I don't play more HU cash online!
Anyway, I'm going to give it another shot sanz beer. I'm really bummed about that because I've been really trying to approach the game in the best, most professional way possible but let my guard down for some reason. The think I hate most about the introduction of booze into my game is the doubt it creates after a loss. As in, was I playing as well as I thought I was? You just don't know until you dig through the hand histories, which can be really painful after a night like that. Considering the hand above with JJ where he runner runnered a bigger boat. . . I have to wonder if the influence of booze isn't painfully obvious. What booze is good at is extending the length and breadth of your emotions. . . and there is just no place in poker for emotion.
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