Wednesday, October 10, 2007

Well, that was easy

Last night, I went to log a session 4 tabling. At a 1/2 NL table, a spewy fish was sitting with a big stack. He was running about 52/27 on the session, and had $800 in front of him when I first sat. He talked trash in the chat box after winning/losing a big hand, which combined with his lagtard play was aggravating me. I decided to challenge him to heads-up in the same "test of manhood" that I seem to do every week. I loaded up a 2/4 NL heads up table, and surprisingly he bought in for full.

I then went on to give him a pretty bad beating. He was willing to stack very lightly, and I could see that it would be very easy to outplay him. He was not content on letting me win any big pots. He called every reraise preflop, and called or raised every c-bet in RRed pots. I knew I'd have to gamble in this match.

The main pots:
-Close your eyes and call. He loved to both bluff the river, and value bet very thinly. He would have raised the turn with an ace most of the time, so I felt this was an easy call vs him.
-Sadly, this is a cooler. By this point in the match, I thought my hand was a monster. Even when he 3 bet the flop, I felt great about the situation. It was unfortunate, but comes with the territory of playing a very aggressive HU match.
-The final hand. This is my 2nd biggest pot ever. I'm fortunate to get in a spot like this, but it's still amazing he stacks off 2 buy-ins with bottom two.

One hour later, I was $1400 richer.