Tuesday, 18 August 2009

Back to normal, HU

I'm now back at home, on my own, and back into playing poker again! I've had a good couple of weeks. I visited Barry/Bazclef up in Edinburgh along with Chris/Pureklas. Then I headed back home, stopping at Hartlepool overnight to pick up my friend Scott. Scott stayed at mine until yesterday, and we just went and caught up with friends he hadn't seen in ages and stuff like that. Then last Thursday - Sunday we headed down to Brighton with another friend, Alex, for a short holiday. I'll write some stuff about that and put some pictures in when I can be bothered in a few days.

Since I got back I've pretty much just been playing HU. I decided it's time to learn, and I'm really enjoying playing, so that's my plan for the time being. Unfortunately it's decided to not be kind to me so far:



That's all at 2/4. I don't actually think I'm doing much wrong. I think it's just the HU variance getting to me. I'm going to just keep plugging along. If anyone who can play HU fancies reviewing a video session of mine then please let me know!

It's definitely a little frustrating trying to get games. I seemingly suck and still most players play for five minutes and then leave (particularly if they're a little up). I think I'm dealing with that side of things pretty well though.

The only big losers that weren't total coolers (well, or nasty beats) are these two:

http://weaktight.com/1413902 - I'm pretty sure this is always a stack off. I'd just played a hand in the exact same way (same bet sizes etc) a few hands earlier, which I think makes it an even easier stack off.

http://weaktight.com/1413903 - I'm not particularly happy with my play on this one, although I'm not really sure what I'm supposed to do. This was early on in the match and I had literally zero idea of his ranges.

I'm finding it much easier to grind HU than 6-max though for some reason. I think it's the fact that I just sit and play rather than hunting down new tables all the time, as well as the fact that it's sort of easier to concentrate on everything when it's just one person to focus on.

The plan is to just keep grinding it for now until I start winning or go bust!

3 comments:

Mat said...

Hmmm,I find it much easier to grind 6m because I can just robot it.When I play HU I like to be able to soul read that bad I'd know what kind of ceral bars my opponent chews on lol.

I can take a look at some HU with you.I have just stopped HU and got into 6m again,but I had a decent time over at Boss HU.My red line is super sik.Maybe it's just because they all suck though and it was only up too 1/2 EUR tables.

Amatay said...

shit, hopefully u run better soon, the graph looks ugly. link swap btw?

Grog said...

Struggling to get action is the reason I don't really play HU anymore... having 6max tables just always sat there with 5 villains ready to play is just easier.

I'll 2 table 400NL HU for practice though if you want... we could agree on like 500 hands beforehand or something maybe.

hand 2 I think bet-call > than CR on the turn... reason being that PSR dicates draws like J9 can't be shoved on the flop, but on the turn to the correct betsize HU guys sometimes shove there. Plus you stop him checking through with draws.

erm same result though!