Friday, August 7, 2009

Head's Up Debaucle

Last night playing the 8:35 $3.30 rebuy tournament on Full Tilt, I got deep in the tournament with very little problems. with about 30 people I was the chip leader and chipping up quite easily. Got down to the final table and played a hand really poorly with 7 players left.

UTG I pick up 1010 and have been raising a lot but usually in pos. everyone has been giving me respect and if not I have been losing the minimum post flop. I have 750k (with 6m in play) and I raise to 50k (blinds 10-20k 2k ante). folds to sb who I know as a loose flushmaster that likes to see flops. he calls and the bb folds. 124k in pot. Flop comes Q73 and he leads for 60k, I call, pot has 244k. turn comes 5 (no flush draw). He bets 110k and I decide that he hasn't defined his hand yet. 464k in pot. river comes 8. he bets 180k, looks so weak and I thought I had it on the turn so stay with my read and call. he shows KQo and wins 824k pot. I have 350k left.
Very next hand in BB. I wake up with AA. and type in the chat box: nh sir, what a bad call by me... as i am saying that, 2nd pos loose big stack raises to 52k and gets two callers, action to me. gl all and i shove. get isolated by the initial raiser and folds from other two. My AA beats his AKo and Im back around 900k.

Now, I am reborn, Rich and I talk about how I'm back to my original spot and from then on I just dominate this table, raising everyother hand and calling raises, leading into preflop raisers, threebetting the stronger players and calling down the weakest players. I knock out one or two in 70-30 spots and have about 3.1m 3 handed. Player to my left is decent and has around 2.4m. I have been raising my button (his sb) and my sb(his bb) like crazy and he has reraised me once while the other MsMuffin is getting slowly dwindled, though he is not overly anxious to play back at her, I would be content to play MsMuffin because she has been so bad.
with 3.1m on button and blinds 30-60k 5k ante, I raise to 135k with A2d, sb reraises to 425k and I think he must know that MsMuffin is awful and will go out soon, he can't stack here unless he has a monster. So I shove and he insta calls with KK, I flop an A and we are headsup.
ME (5.5m) vs. MsMuffin (500k)
At this point MsMuffin has already clicked the deal button(a new feature this very week on FT) but I obviously have no need to even look at. I raise a couple hands and fold one when i get A3o on the button and decide to raise, she has about 460k but I hit the pot button by accident and raise to 260k. FUCK ME. She calls and the flop comes 953, and shoves, I insta call and she shows 97o, I cant hit anything and she is back up to near 1m. Game on, kinda.
Now, I know it doesn't seem like such a big deal to most people who have half a brain for poker, you would say, well if she is gonna call a raise for more than half her stack she would call an allin, right? Not this idiot. Huge mistake on my part, I move, she would likely fold as I had seen her done before.
So we continue playing and get in a big hand where I am in the bb with K3 and she has limped. flop comes k42 and I check, she bets min, i raise 3x and she reraises min. For some reason, I shove and she shows K4, I dont hit and now have 2.8m to her 3.2m. I try to run a couple bluffs but she has been doing the min riase, min lead, min reraise and so on like mad. (believe it or not, a tough strategy to play against HU with BB's) and I dwindle to 1.4m. I limp on the button as she has been raising min every bb (not optimal as you have to play out of pos, but if you are min leading the flop, kinda takes the problem out of the way) with K9o, planning to trap, she min raises (blinds at 40-80 at this point) and I shove, she insta calls and shows A3o, I flop k95 and she doesn't improve. back in it 3.4m or so. 3 hands later, I raise min from the sb with 99, she min reraises and i shove, she insta calls with KJs and turns a J to win the hand, A 5.4m pot. FUCK. I get a series of 32, 42,92,47 and cant call a single min raise, have to stack with k4 with 300k and lose to her AJo.

Just an awful feeling, I owned the table and had a bad player 10-1 in chips and couldnt finish her off. So instead of $2250 I get $1390. Don't get me wrong, not bad for a $3 tourney, but when you have the victory in sight, its more frustrating to lose HU versus such a toad than lose the $1k.

Live and learn, I have to stop and think, I let that HU match get away from me, usually I don't but I will learn from it and move on. Fuck poker is fun.

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