| 28 Jul | The Art of (not) FoldingPosted by Masterplan79th on 5:38PM, 28th Jul 2006Permalink |  Send to a friend |  RSS feed |
Been playing a few Heads Up games last night because the Punters Lounge focus game was a $10 Heads Up MTT played on the Boss Network, and $10 is still just beyond my meagre $300 bankroll, so i played some $5 Heads Up games instead. after winning my first 2 comfortably, in the 3rd i found myself down to 300 chips(from an initial 1500) after running into better hands not once, not twice, but 3 times. First K4s flop TK4 running into KK. Then A7 hitting the A and running into AK. Then AT on a flop of A78 running into A7. Feeling a bit demoralised i shook it off and played some excellent shortstack poker to even up before winning the final all in 99 vs A7. the 4th game pretty much followed the same, early defeats a good comeback and a swift victory. 4 wins in a row at this point and i'm feeling pretty pleasedwith my play, i'd woken up in the morning feeling good and confident, getting my first caffeine hit of the day i told myself "Today is a good day to play Poker", which remained true, and given my week till this point was a $72 loss(13 straight ootm $5 stts) it was true because when i came to sit down at my 5th Heads Up game i was only $9 down for the week. so i sit down and begin quite aggressively, losing the first few hands to re-raises on my bluffs. when i'm dealt 44. i always raise pocket pairs heads up. so i put a 3x raise in and get a call. flop comes down a dream, K K 4. i flopped the full house, not being shy i bet 4x at it, and get single re-raised, from this point on, i'm suspicious. my bet on the turn gets single raised too and on the river i get re-raised all in. I knew i was beat, i had been all along. But i told myself, you just CANT fold a full house heads up. So i called, turn my flopped 444KK and lost to her flopped KKK44. Lesson learnt, you CAN fold a full house heads up.
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