4-of-a-Kind
Join Date: Aug 2007
Posts: 3,068
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I've been playing HU lately. Details for the interested: Noobie HU Learning Curve.
Funny story. I have a 2 to 1 chip lead against this LAGG, and I beat him with a sick all-in call. He limps, I have K5o, and the flop is AA2. He cbets and I'm like "What could he possibly have?" So I call. Turn is Q, river is another 2 and the betting goes check turn, bomb river all-in. He shows down T-high, and my K-high takes it. I was about 75% certain I was ahead when I called and was only worried about 2x, but he just goes off on me in the chat box.
"You donkey! You are horrible!! You play so bad - every bet is SO terrible. You suck at poker and should JUST QUIT!!"
We're done early and it's a 4-man $6.40 HU SnG. I have to wait for the other table to finish anyway, so I pull the ol' "I'm new -- just learnin' poker" level. He actually apologizes, says I have a lot to learn and wishes me gl. So I ask for coaching help which he provides by going through each HH in the replayer, telling me his hole cards and explaining how I should bet/play against him/others.
1. He gave some decent advice, but he totally exposed his entire poker mindset in the 5 hands he critiqued with me. Problem is, he could be an FTR grinder. The advice was at that no-longer-a-noobie level typical of our winning 5nl and 10nl regs in the BC. I felt pretty bad for the guy as I totally set him up for rape and pillage action. Buddy list, amiright?
2. Talk about tapping the fish tank. Jeez. If I was a fish, I wouldn't have been worse than this guy for long.
3. If you're wondering, I lied about my hole cards.
So I'm having fun, making a bit of money and learning tons. Position, position, position. Aggression - why do so many of these guys limp their button all the time? I mean, it's a tourney so it's not horrible, but they still are doing it when they're short stacked, say, 12 BB.
I won 4 of 11 4-man $6 SnG's last night for about $75 in BI's and $96 in payouts.
Cash game is on hold right now. I'm going to try generating some positive returns in HU. I'm rolled for (at least) the $11, and the players seem epically readable at $6. So I'm pretty much just trying learn as much as I can as fast as I can so I can justify moving up with results instead of optimism.
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