SwingSwingSwing's Poker Journey

Despite having lots of other things to do, I played some poker over the weekend. To hell with the garden, and the fence, and fixing the blinds. See me, see living on the edge!

My Heads Up SNG adventures continues with my recent downswing now just a minor blip.

Stats are now:-
Played: 158
ITM%: 55.1%
ROI%: 4.9%

But I still need to get a handle on tilt. An example -  idiot opponent pushes 42s for 15BB or so and as he had been pushing quite a bit, I call with my 77. Flop comes A3x rainbow. Of course, you just know that the 5 is coming. And it does. Cue insane monkey tilt and I go on to lose the match. Arghhhh.

Although my Heads Up SNG adventure isn't exactly bringing in lots of money (yet!) it has definitely improved my overall game. Evaluating hand ranges, analysing flop textures, etc is much easier now and because of that I'm able to make better decisions.

For example, last night's BritBloggerment. It came down to dasertr and myself and the effective stacks were around 20BB, certainly not shove-fest territory yet, and I had the chip advantage. If I had been in this situation a year ago, I would not really have known what do. Stacks are too big to shove and my post flop play wasn't great. But last night was different. I went into the heads up battle, confident and eager.

And I won :-)