Big Apple, here I come!
I'm sitting on the airplane on the way to NYC to meet up with KRANTZ, Whitelime, FWF, and the rest of the crew to do a lot of DeucesCracked.com work. We'll hopefully be getting a lot accomplished this week by creating lots of videos and exploring where we're going next in the DC journey.
I'm excited to get out there and hang out with those guys again as well as hopefully getting some good sweat time in playing and watching some of the biggest HU ballers on the planet. I feel like my heads up game has been progressing nicely but I still have quite a few leaks I'm trying to work out as well as overall gameplan/adjusting goes. I've been fortunate to run fairly well overall in terms of all-in EV in terms of big blinds won and lost, however my timing for hitting big downswings has been less than.... ideal.
I played some 25/50 HU the other night on PokerStars, which is a monumental pain since we had to sit on a 9 man table and beg people to not sit in so we could play heads up. I was playing against a fairly accomplished online tournament player who played a super aggressive game. There was tons of 3 betting preflop and overall aggression postflop. I managed to run terribly card dead the entire match, only managing to hit a flop when the guy would flop a set...heh. So after a few fairly positive blog posts in a row, I'm unhappy to report that I pretty much wrecked my month and posted my worst day ever as I lost 22k at 25/50, another 4k at 10/20, and overall on the night I finished -$17,500 or so for my biggest single day loss ever. It wasn't much fun, but i'm fairly confident I can make it back by grinding 5/10 HU and 10/20 HU for the forseeable future.
Ideally, once I get to NYC and being in the midst of the great heads up minds, I'll be able to crush by osmosis and make back some of the disaster that was 25/50nl. I plan on trying to play a fair amount of 10/20nl while in new york, so we'll see how it ends up.
Here was a graph of the other night at 25/50nl. As you can see -$22,000 in about 400 hands lol...
Amazingly I kept in fairly good spirits after the loss. It helped to know that my money was in a good spot... not that I necessarily got drawn out a lot (i was mostly just getting outflopped) but that I would happily play again if I could. That's not to say he was a bad player, in fact just his pure aggression was fairly difficult to deal with, it's just that I really couldn't ever seem to achieve the momentum and I was always trying to play catch-up. I plan on writing a big long post about how important momentum is (more of a psychological thing...has little/nothing to do with acutal EV). Anyway, I hope we'll be able to form a rematch in the near future, and this time hopefully it will be hosted on FTP where they actually have heads up tables instead of this converted full table nonsense with idiots always sitting in ruining the game.
Captain turned on the fasten seat belt sign so I'm almost ready to land. I plan on trying to make at least one other blog entry while here in NYC to report how things are going.
Good luck and play well
Aaron
I'm excited to get out there and hang out with those guys again as well as hopefully getting some good sweat time in playing and watching some of the biggest HU ballers on the planet. I feel like my heads up game has been progressing nicely but I still have quite a few leaks I'm trying to work out as well as overall gameplan/adjusting goes. I've been fortunate to run fairly well overall in terms of all-in EV in terms of big blinds won and lost, however my timing for hitting big downswings has been less than.... ideal.
I played some 25/50 HU the other night on PokerStars, which is a monumental pain since we had to sit on a 9 man table and beg people to not sit in so we could play heads up. I was playing against a fairly accomplished online tournament player who played a super aggressive game. There was tons of 3 betting preflop and overall aggression postflop. I managed to run terribly card dead the entire match, only managing to hit a flop when the guy would flop a set...heh. So after a few fairly positive blog posts in a row, I'm unhappy to report that I pretty much wrecked my month and posted my worst day ever as I lost 22k at 25/50, another 4k at 10/20, and overall on the night I finished -$17,500 or so for my biggest single day loss ever. It wasn't much fun, but i'm fairly confident I can make it back by grinding 5/10 HU and 10/20 HU for the forseeable future.
Ideally, once I get to NYC and being in the midst of the great heads up minds, I'll be able to crush by osmosis and make back some of the disaster that was 25/50nl. I plan on trying to play a fair amount of 10/20nl while in new york, so we'll see how it ends up.
Here was a graph of the other night at 25/50nl. As you can see -$22,000 in about 400 hands lol...
Amazingly I kept in fairly good spirits after the loss. It helped to know that my money was in a good spot... not that I necessarily got drawn out a lot (i was mostly just getting outflopped) but that I would happily play again if I could. That's not to say he was a bad player, in fact just his pure aggression was fairly difficult to deal with, it's just that I really couldn't ever seem to achieve the momentum and I was always trying to play catch-up. I plan on writing a big long post about how important momentum is (more of a psychological thing...has little/nothing to do with acutal EV). Anyway, I hope we'll be able to form a rematch in the near future, and this time hopefully it will be hosted on FTP where they actually have heads up tables instead of this converted full table nonsense with idiots always sitting in ruining the game.
Captain turned on the fasten seat belt sign so I'm almost ready to land. I plan on trying to make at least one other blog entry while here in NYC to report how things are going.
Good luck and play well
Aaron
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