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So that's me climbed out of the hole in the $5 HU SNGs, back in profit at last.
My final opponent of that session was quite tough. I Sharkscoped him at the start of the tournie and saw a very impressive HU graph, a virtually straight line of rising profit. I lost a lot of chips early when I tried to run a stupid check raise bluff when I hit bottom pair on an AQ6 board. Stupid board to do it on and I had to fold to his all in reraise.
A few hands later, still at 10/20 blinds, he min raised his button and I pushed with TT. He called with A9 which I thought was a bit loose, and I doubled up.
My opponent did a good job of picking away at me for the 20 or so hands, pushing quite a few preflop and picking up small unclaimed pots when he didn't. I was dealt a pair of queens in the small blind. My opponent pushed preflop and obviously I called. He had KT and so I was a 70/30 favourite. The flop brought a ten but I was still an 81% favourite.....until another ten hit on the turn.
I messed up badly with TT on the button a short while later. I limped hoping that he would raise. But he checked. The flop came J85 and I bet, he called. We both checked the turn. Another J fell on the river and my opponent bet almost full pot. I just didn't see him having a Jack and playing it so passively on the flop, so I called. He had J5 for the full house and his passive play on the flop was because he had a monster. Doh.
I was down to around 700 chips and the blinds were up to 25/50 so it was getting near to push/fold time. I pushed with KTo and got called with K9o and doubled up, bringing things nearly level.
Flopping trip eights helped me get back into the lead and a passively played top pair got me some more chips when my opponent thought he could value bet his pair of fours on the river.
The knockout hand was nice. I pushed first in with K9s. He called with AJo. I hit a 9 on the flop and then made runner runner quads which was very nice indeed.
Bloggerment last Sunday - blegh. Made the final table but my short stacked push with K5s was not a match for a pair of threes despite having a gazillion outs on the flop.
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