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Its been a while, so I can't actually remember my thought process on these hands, but I'll do my best in trying to figure it out.
Its worth pointing out that these hands are heads up, so obviously you have to loosen up a good deal. I also felt like I had a pretty good read on him, which meant I may find a good opportunity to bluff with a weak hand, or make a tough call, postflop.
#342
I thought that a minbet would be sufficent if he didn't have anything. Once he came over the top of me, I probably put him on slowplaying something rather big and thought he'd pay me off on the river if I happened to hit. I didn't bluff the river because I thought he'd call, based on my read that he had a big hand. The turn call was loose though, especially for just a draw to a one hole card straight which wouldn't be that disguised even if it did hit. I probably was still steaming from my AA getting beat on the river a few hands prior to this, as I don't like how I played this hand looking at it now, but I don't think it was horribly played either.
#349
This one I think is played fine. Its a connected hand, and typically any pair will be the best hand on the flop when heads up, and I'd have position after the flop, so I think the preflop call is fine. Plus, there's a little bit of salesmanship here, showing that I'm not going to fold automatically whenever I limp in and he reraises. Again, minbets seemed to work when he didn't have a hand, and I minbet some of my big hands as well, so I don't see a problem with that. The folding to a bet on the river thing doesn't really matter at all. Its a pure bluff, so of course I plan on folding to any bet or raise. I was trying to take the pot down, and figured that a minbet was enough to do so without near as much risk as betting more.
#406
This one I'm kind of surprised seemed out of place at all. I'm not reraising because of the size of the blinds and my stack. I don't believe in minraising (as it gives basically no incentive to fold after they've put a good amount of chips in, which also gives you no indication of how strong they are when they call), so the smallest reraise I'd make in this case, if I were to preflop raise, would be to about 5000. That'd be putting in a 1/5 of my chips preflop, in what very well could be a dominated hand too, as he's obviously very likely to raise A7-AK, and pocket pairs 7 and higher.
Probably the biggest reason though was that I felt like I had the edge over him in post flop play. Why reraise such a high percentage of my stack preflop with just a decent hand, when I can see a rather cheap flop? I don't lead at the flop because he's the one that preflop raised (and I decided not to reraise, this basically goes hand in hand with the first part), and typically people always check to the preflop raiser. Betting out of turn usually looks very suspicious. If he checks the flop I bet the turn no matter what hits, but leading (especially leading weak) would basically be inviting a reraise that I couldn't call. I'd much rather check and try to read his bet in this situation.
One last thing about this hand. I'm not sure why you think there's a good chance that my A high, 6 kicker, is the best hand. He'd raise a higher ace, be likely to raise with a K, could easily have a T, could possibly have a 4, may have any pocket pair, and may have a flush draw or open ended straight draw that is still favored against just ace high (and more importantly when you're bluffing, he's unlikely to fold it). It could be the best hand, but its not all that likely, and I'm not about to risk many chips here, when he's been the aggressor in the hand.
Finally, on the topic of all the heads up hands in the hand history, I should note that first place got the $15k package and 2nd place only got $1500. The huge discrepency between 1st and 2nd certainly was a factor. In a SNG when its heads up, sure, I may be very likely to reraise big (or maybe all in) with A6 when the other person has raised my BB (with lets say KQ). If it doesn't work out, oh well, still cashed and can start the next one. But with how much was at stake in this one, I tried to limit the amount of gambling, especially preflop when I really have no clue where I stand, while I was the small stack. Once I became the big stack I was more aggressive preflop, but especially when I was a small stack, I wasn't just looking for a small edge to push with. And with the blinds still being reasonable, I wasn't forced into gambling it up either.
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