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JR9477
Old 11-02-2009, 05:24 PM     Post subject: OP: play some HU #1 (permalink)  
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 Hello! Time for my first serious operation!

I took a month break from poker while learning to cook for a old folks home, I missed poker (even though I had been spewing money everywhere). At yaawn's (joking?) suggestion I decided to play some HU. I'm a casual player, so I don't put in much volume, nor do I play in long stretches, so playing HU SNG's though seems to work for me and my lifestyle. (Kids are fun!)

It's been awesome so far and I've been able to use much of what I have learned. Also, the fact that I'm playing almost every hand helps keep me entertained and focused.

Players so far have been terrible at the bottom level, though in a good way for me. I had one match last 19 hands, and another 5. Both players were overaggressive and just didn't know when to stop and fold.
On the whole I see people play the same lines over and over. I guess they work against certain opponents? I had one guy who was 92/56 with a donk bet of 74%, but if called, he would easily give up the turn to a bet/raise. (This became his downfall.)
I hope they don't get smarter for a while.

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Old 11-03-2009, 06:01 AM #2 (permalink)  
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Old 11-03-2009, 05:51 PM #3 (permalink)  
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Josh got an OP verry nice. Glad to see your back. I think you will make a good HU player. Use your OP more than i use mine. I really lack in that department. GOOD LUCK
 
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Old 11-03-2009, 06:47 PM #4 (permalink)  
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 Good luck. I play full ring as my main game but recently wanted to try some heads up @ $50NL to improve my full ring game when I started tables and just my game in general. I've found, though, that the rake is horrible and puts extra pressure to win since money is always leaking. For now, I've decided to drop a stake and play some 6-max for variety instead of HU, however, I may give HU SNG's a shot since they exist @ lower levels and others like you have spoken well of them.
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Old 11-04-2009, 02:39 AM #5 (permalink)  
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 Thanks for the support!

Been fun so far, 13 games in and doing well. I'm sure one big reason is I have been doing range studying lately. Focusing of improving my postflop play, as well as learning to exploit different player types.

Things of note...

I tend to lose chips at the beginning. This comes from my opponents picking up quite a few pots in the beginning, I think i'm giving up pots too easily early on.

After cbetting the flop I tend to give up on the turn, I need to start looking for spots where a double barrel might be profitable.

When people fall to less than 1/2 stack they tend to start tilting, people start shoving any reasonable hand pf, or any pair or drawing hand on the flop. I've done this myself and trying to stop it. Changing things up and getting more aggressive may be good, but not to the point of being stupid.


Got the next two days off, hopefully I'll be getting another dozen of games in or more. Should be easier now that I installed tableninja for fulltilt+joytokey to play poker with a gamepad. It's pretty nice to sit back and mash buttons.
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