Now that it's been a day I've had time to reflect on my match and get the tilt out of my system. I still stand by most of my decisions and I think I made correct adjustments to his playing style, but some key mistakes in deep pots. To my defence I haven't really played much 300 and 400bb deep, it's really very challenging and every decision can be for a lot of money. Tilting obviously becomes very expensive aswell as not focusing (some people would say it's the same thing).
I think part of why he was so tough to play against was that he must have had a pretty good card distribution to where it appeared to me that he was constantly making close to nut hands when he was betting. I must admit though that he played his style pretty well and made some good laydowns to me.
I'm definetly sure of my edge against this guy and I'd take some more shots at him given the chance, but I'm not sure I'll see him again too soon. He has some exploitable lines and he adjusts slowly to your change in play, so your chipping away at the small-mid sized pots. I think he plays large pots reasonably well though.
I'm sure a seasoned HU reg would've crushed him, but I can imagine other regs having troubles against him aswell. I don't think that some of the people berating me for being weak in deep pots not adjusting well etc, are being fair on me (and also not showing great comeradeship).
What I did take from this match was some valuable experience in both deep stacked and HU poker and some self-management aspects (possibly quitting him earlier, just to keep a clear mind. I feel that for me that this is especially true. I'm generally a very calm person, but I also absorb things a lot which is a) not healthy and b) will show it's side-effects, as my brain is processing these feelings additionally to the information at hand and rations between them as weird as that may sound. An example would be say you lost 3 pots and you're in a marginal spot again, the logical part will say maximize ev and the emotional will say I don't want to lose another pot. Obviously this has to be balanced with game flow dynamics (sometimes it can be correct to fold a marginally profitable hand to save momentum and push bigger edges later on).).
These are just my after-thoughts on my HU session. I took the day off today and I'll be playing a combination of party poker (100% rakeback for the next 6 days) ring games, ipoker ring games and FTP HU poker for the rest of the month. I also have a macroeconmics exam coming up at the end of the month, right before I go to vegas.
I've also decided to get a new notebook, a MacBook Pro. I'm gonna buy it in the US though, fully tuned it's a wooping 750€ (1100$) cheaper in the US than in the EU.
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I get the feeling that lots of your big laydowns were actually against worse made hands... you were clearly playing an over-aggro fish who overvalued his hands.
Also, when you say "I dont want to stack X hand 300BB deep" you have to keep in mind that your opponent is not thinking the same way, and likely does not adjust for deep stacks nearly as much as you do.
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Just found your blog and wondered if I could ask you a quick question.
I really want to get into HU cash games but only have a $550 bankroll which can't be replensihed easily. I do have a 47% RB deal the site I could play on which helps but would you play NL10 or NL20 with such a bankroll?
I wouldn't play NL 10 or 20 HU the rake will eat you up for sure. If your pretty good you can probably beat the rake @ 100 and above, but I would avoid playing good players, because as soon as your edge decreases the rake becomes unbeatable.
I think with 550$ you wanna play some NL 25 and move down to NL 10 if you drop to 250$. I think once I make it to 3000$ I'd take some shots @ 100 HU.
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