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Written by SwingSwingSwing
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Monday, 15 February 2010 14:50 |
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A quick update on my shot at the $10s. I played 20 tournies over the weekend and I'm currently running at an ROI of 20%! I doubt that will last but we can always hope.
Play is definitely tougher than the $5 although there are plenty of fish. I played a series of three games against a guy who had a tendency for huge overbets at any stage of the hand. He was a definite fish but his overbets did cause me a bit of bother. He won the first match but I took down the next two.
The trickiest set of games were last night against a very aggressive player. I had just busted out of the weekly BritBloggerment and wasn't particularily happy, having run into big hands at the wrong times. I knew at the time that I should have just closed PokerStars down but it was still early so I went to the HU SNG lobby.
I found a player sitting who had a Spanish sounding screenname. And his screenname had a space in it. I've come to the conlusion over time that this can sometimes be an indicator of fishiness so I jumped in. Unfortunately, he was aggro to the extreme, raising nearly ever hand preflop and forcing me off hands with some unexpected and large check raises or river raises. Post flop he was absolutely owning me.
This got to me. The first two games he won easily. One of them was when he raised with 52o and I called. I think I had top pair on the flop and made a big bet. Unfortunately, as the board had brought two fives I was toast.
Now, at this point I should have walked away. But no, I rematched him again, which he was loving. "You are a loser" and "I like you" were a couple of his comments. For game three, I decided to make the game more of pre flop affair. I started pushing over the top of his raises with decent hands and he would fold. He then started limping, which suited me fine as long as I kept it very simple and didn't let myself get into any tricky situations. He got bored with taking these little pots that he went back to raising preflop. To which I responded to by pushing over the top. He was still in the lead when I picked up a pair of tens. He raised, I pushed, he called with A6s. And hit an Ace on the flop so it's now 3-0 to him.
Christ, was I angry and immediately rematched (which again was probably the wrong thing to do!). But I think I had a strategy that would be successful. Game four was over pretty quickly. I had pushed over the top of couple of raises to get a small chip lead then had Kings on the button. I just push it all in. He calls with king ten offsuit. Yip, KTo. Now it's 3-1.
Games five and six followed the same pattern. I just kept pushing over his raises with decent hands and when he called he had the inferior hand.
At 3-3, he left which I regarded as a moral victory for me! Yay.
Looking back, I got off lucky in that series. It could have been much worse had I not won my 60-40s.
So let that be a lesson to you all, never play when you're in the wrong mindset. Just don't do it. It will cost you money.
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Written by SwingSwingSwing
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Friday, 20 February 2009 18:01 |
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I've added a wee graph in the left column that will display my current SNG Winnings graph from Top Shark purveyors of quality poker software. Top Shark hasn't been around as long as Sharkscope but it hasn't missed any of my recent tournaments. I've played a couple of SNGs since my last post and I've played them much better, getting a first and second. |
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Written by SwingSwingSwing
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Tuesday, 20 November 2007 09:53 |
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This made me laugh out loud. From fark.com
[Amusing] 80-year-old leader of Atlanta megachurch embroiled in sex scandal with his brother's wife. If only there were some religious book to let him know that this kind of thing is frowned upon.
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Written by SwingSwingSwing
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Friday, 12 February 2010 13:27 |
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I hate to say it, but for added ambience while reading this post, sing "Moving On Up" by M People in your head!
Finally, at last, at long, long, last, I've hit 20BB profit at the $5 heads up sit'n'gos. And the game that took me over my target was probably the easiest ten dollars I have ever made. The way my Canadian opponent, gerald, played it was as if he was playing his cards face up. He bet big when he had something like top pair or better. He bet small when had something small like botton or second pair and checked every other time.
Easy peasy,
lemon squeezy,
nice and easy,
one two threesey!
My stats at the $5 level are:-
Games Played: 377
Win%: 55.4%
ROI%: 5.6%
Winnings: $110.75
$/hr: $0.99
That's right - I make one dollar an hour playing heads up poker! This time next year, I'll be a millionaire.
The stats are nothing special. In fact, they should be higher but I'm fairly happy. There were times during the $5s when I was playing poorly and I lost money. But I was able to step back, review my play and get myself back to winning ways.
So now I'm going to take a stab at the $10s. Although I've got the bankroll to stay at the 10s, I'm going to set a 5 buyin stop loss, i.e. if I'm down $50, I'll drop back down to the $5s for a bit.
I suppose I shouldn't have phrased that as "going to take a stab" as I've already started. After taking a night off after reaching the 20BB target, I sat down last night and watched the $10 lobby for a bit and observed a couple of games. What struck me immediately was the level of traffic. At the $5s, you'll get an opponent in under 15 seconds. At the $10s though I saw waits of over a minute before a table filled. Anyway, after spotting (and avoiding) a couple of multi-tablers, I jumped in for what would be my third $10 SNG since I started playing heads up poker. And I won. Although my opponent was poor, which always helps.
I played 6 tournaments in total, winning three and losing three which is fine. Of the six opponents, I would only classify 2 as fish. Of the remaining 4, there were three that I wouldn't want to play too often. The other guy - undecided. He might be good or bad. Overall, from that small sample, the players are better so I'll need to be careful.
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