Augusto
It's pretty hot in the DR. I am leaving tomorrow, but I've had a lot of fun. Haggling with the vendors is neat, but they really try to rip you off. I got a lot of people who want to test my beta seminar, so that's good. I'll start that up after I get back from Vegas. My only concern is that some of the specific things I will be talking about are too advanced for SSNL, but that's what the beta is for, right? I haven't really put any poker in the last couple entries, so I'll talk a little about that.
About 10 days ago on UB I played Big Egypt HU on 2 tables. I know he does well at the 2k and 5k HU on FTP, but UB is like my home court, so I play a lot more people on there. It was really annoying because the times that he got my stack, with one exception, were all coolers. However, I had to work and outplay him to win pots. He stacked me quickly twice; about 3 minutes in I lost with AQ in a 3bet pot to 77 on a A97 board. Then, he hit a runner runner flush agaisnt my top set when he check-minraised the flop with air, and bet the turn on the picked up draw.
Image is so important HU. After the two coolers, I found myself down 5k, and then sat at the other table. We battled back and forth. I went down 12k at the bottom when he could do no wrong. I battled back, and decided that he was cbetting too much (almost 90% of the time) so I countered by check raising a lot. I donked into him a few times with very good hands, and we saw a showdown in those hands a few times. I mixed in air a couple times, but he never saw. So, his read on me had to be that I donk with strong hands, which led to this hand.
He raises, I call with 66. The pot is 150, flop is A24, and I donk into him. He raises, and I decide that I can rep a really strong hand. I call, and the turn is a king. I check, he bets pretty big, maybe 850 into the 1250 pot, and I shove. He quickly types, "set good. or 53." It's really satisfying to be able to know what a fellow HS player is thinking, and thusly exploit him.
The dynamic of our match was weird. Most of the time, the turn was being checked through by me. Just the way the hands worked out, it didn't seem like I was value betting very thinly (I kind of wasn't at the time). However, then a hand came up where I raised 9Jo and he called. The flop was 926r, and he c/c. The turn was a queen and I bet again, pretty big. The river was a king, and I bet again for value. I figured that my image at this point was big hand or air when I bet those three streets as bigly as I did, especially given our recent dynamic. He thought for a little and called with 52. Afterwards he typed, "sick was that a vb or a bluff." I wound up making a huge comeback to +400, and then he quit/had to go. I felt pretty satisfied because I seemed to have a good idea of how he played by the end of it but I feel as though I was really starting to confuse him.
Tomorrow I come back for literally the night, and then it's off to Vegas. I'm itching to play.
Greg
About 10 days ago on UB I played Big Egypt HU on 2 tables. I know he does well at the 2k and 5k HU on FTP, but UB is like my home court, so I play a lot more people on there. It was really annoying because the times that he got my stack, with one exception, were all coolers. However, I had to work and outplay him to win pots. He stacked me quickly twice; about 3 minutes in I lost with AQ in a 3bet pot to 77 on a A97 board. Then, he hit a runner runner flush agaisnt my top set when he check-minraised the flop with air, and bet the turn on the picked up draw.
Image is so important HU. After the two coolers, I found myself down 5k, and then sat at the other table. We battled back and forth. I went down 12k at the bottom when he could do no wrong. I battled back, and decided that he was cbetting too much (almost 90% of the time) so I countered by check raising a lot. I donked into him a few times with very good hands, and we saw a showdown in those hands a few times. I mixed in air a couple times, but he never saw. So, his read on me had to be that I donk with strong hands, which led to this hand.
He raises, I call with 66. The pot is 150, flop is A24, and I donk into him. He raises, and I decide that I can rep a really strong hand. I call, and the turn is a king. I check, he bets pretty big, maybe 850 into the 1250 pot, and I shove. He quickly types, "set good. or 53." It's really satisfying to be able to know what a fellow HS player is thinking, and thusly exploit him.
The dynamic of our match was weird. Most of the time, the turn was being checked through by me. Just the way the hands worked out, it didn't seem like I was value betting very thinly (I kind of wasn't at the time). However, then a hand came up where I raised 9Jo and he called. The flop was 926r, and he c/c. The turn was a queen and I bet again, pretty big. The river was a king, and I bet again for value. I figured that my image at this point was big hand or air when I bet those three streets as bigly as I did, especially given our recent dynamic. He thought for a little and called with 52. Afterwards he typed, "sick was that a vb or a bluff." I wound up making a huge comeback to +400, and then he quit/had to go. I felt pretty satisfied because I seemed to have a good idea of how he played by the end of it but I feel as though I was really starting to confuse him.
Tomorrow I come back for literally the night, and then it's off to Vegas. I'm itching to play.
Greg
posted by Greg at 8/02/2007 12:11:00 PM
1 Comments:
Hello Greg. I,m Dardo from 2+2. I enjoyed your posts at the forum and just found that you have a blog. It will be great to follow it as well. Thanks for the advice.
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