Hello folks.
I'm Orojanjivu - a 3bb/100 50NL shorthanded reg on stars. A couple of days ago i figured it was about time to learn a new game. Im not an completely clueless when it comes to heads up maches. What I find most tempting is that one does not have to share a fish with 3-4 other regs. However, i will not be playing any lowstakes until i prove i can beat the micros. That's why I put 150$ aside for HU HT only. The idea is to build a large enough BR to play the 30$ as soon as possible, which seems like a very realistic goal. How long will it take me to get there will depend of a lot of factors but towards the end of the year i would love to be playing the 30$. Therefore i need to have a 3k (including my supernova rakeback) roll if 100BI are the standard. In my opinion it seems a bit tight but one can better start on the tight than on the loose side.
I find the games on 1.50 very easy to beat and cant actually wait to move up. Even though i'm not a huge fan of graphs after small samples i will show mine so far. I played some 350 games - and the next one will follow after i hit 1k games.
Why am i writing a blog? If anywhere on the net - this seems like a place to be for an aspiring heads up sng player. I will share some interesting hands and ask questions/opinions about certain spots. Wish me luck - or at least some "rungood".
Regards, Orojanjivu
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Funny story. Just a couple of minutes ago I accidentally enrolled for in a 30$ game facing some russian supernova. As I was writing my first post i was checking out the structures of further limits and forgot to put my filter back to 1$-2$ automatically sitting down and joining a table. it was a bit of a shock though, but i was not going to be intimidated. Here the maybe decisive hand of the game. http://weaktight.com/6502244
Over the first couple of hands he seemed very aggro, 3betting 2/3 and raising all buttons so i expected him to be c/r me quite a lot on a low connected board and let him bluff it off. He snapshoved the river, usually a very accurate timing tell. Later on I doubled him up shoving T9o into his QQ (8bb) and won eventually when I openshoved a9 to get called by K5o for roughly 10bb. I held.
Everything went better than expected. A nice little boost for my roll :)
Here we are once again. Never expected to reach my HUSNG goal so quickly, but from now on one can find me at the 3.50 tables.
However I have to admit that I "cheated". When playing my standard 6max zoom 50NL i looked up a huge whale just to find out that he was sitting at a HU sng table of a format, so far unfamiliar to me. 15$ slow heads up - no blind increase. I quickly read the tournament info and decided to join since I expected myself to have a huge edge in a 200bb deep game with this fella. If i was to take a shot then this was the moment. I could miss 10BI i figured. At the moment had a ROI of nearly 8% at the 1.50$. Decided to join after some pondering and 79 hands later i had grinded him down to 140bb. Then the decisive hand came up: He donkbet 3b stackoff a4 on a23 to run into my nuts 140bb deep!
Then we rematched two more times. In the 2nd match I coolered him w aa vs kk when he had 150 bb left after some 30 hands. The third one however lasted nearly 300 hands. Even though he was very tilted he managed to get there twice c/r me with air and catching perfect running cards for disguised straight and flush. Eventually with 60bb left he 3b called my push w AJ. AQ was good after river J96 K T.
Afther that it was all one big tiltshow and any decent played would have taken his money. Won another four matches for 60$ total, and eventually lost the fifth one to quit after that. Id be playing this guy all day long if my girlfriend didn't start nagging it was time for me to quit and watch the end of 3rd season of Game of Thrones with her. Couldn't wait to check the waters at 3.50 this morning. Played 9 games (W7/L2), had breakfast and now im looking forward to put in some volume.
It's "free money saturday" after all.
Since I am using "small stakes HM2" the 30$ I won "accidentally" does not show. So far im 220$ up and have enough roll for the 3.50$ (370$)
Here a graph to back up my story. Greets!
Love it when they snap-pot river. My turncheck might be bit nitty but small river bet on blank would have taken it down I figured. No need to be balanced whatsoever.
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/7608427_AFE76A5B0A
And then a real LOL hand. Who said 19bb is not enough for a 9bet! shove.
http://www.boomplayer.com/en/poker-hands/Boom/7608508_B3A27E8A13
Lol @ tiny reraises hand.