Heads up Death Match!

Got to play an extended heads up session at Oceans-11 40/80 game on Friday night. This guy is the virtual prop at Oceans and plays the 20 and 40 regularly and makes a living at the game. Friday night the game was ok, but it got short pretty early.

We have played heads up before and I have won both of our previous matches, nothing huge, but I am definitely the winner so far. So we started our heads up match a little after midnight and played for about 3 hours or so.

He started the match with 14 stacks. 2/3 of the way through the match, I had him down to 4 stacks, thus I was up 25 big bets on him. In the last 40 minutes or so, he turned it around and won most of the big pots, and when we quit I ended up winning something like $65 dollars off of him, so it was essentially a draw.

We've talked about playing a heads up death match online, using the play money tables, and then squaring up in real life later. Sounds like fun to me, but I'm not sure how comfortable I am playing him heads up on the internet. I'll have to think it over.

I'm Back!

Back from a week in Hawaii. It was nice, went with the family to Oahu. I was in Maui ten years ago, and I like Maui better, but with kids this time around, I think Oahu was probably the better choice.

Going to put in my first session of poker since my return. Let's see if I still remember how to 3-bet the ten high pre flop.

Free Roll!

I nailed it!

Poor Girl!

I played the 40/80 last night at Oceans-11. There was this nice pretty Korean girl playing. I normally see her playing no-limit, but recently she has been playing limit. She is horrible at limit poker, too. She must have lost around 10k last night. I don't think she can afford to lose that much in a single session. She was getting beat repeatedly, and even when she had big hands someone seemed to make bigger ones. Plus she doesn't really understand the nuances of limit and doesn't know how to protect her hand or what lines to take. It was pretty bad, and I felt really bad for her. Plus I beat up on her repeatedly. Does that make me a bad person?