[Closed] Heads Up, Toes Down - Variance GTFO

Quick update:

Played 15 $11s this night, a lot of fishy recreational players from usa...its a gold mine
won 10 - lost 5

Played vs what appears to be two regs at these limits...won both but there is some obvious difference in skill between 5s and 10s

btw. one hand vs reg:
Known Players:
[tg]Position_Stack: hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero_1305:///////;BB_1695:///////;[/tg]
SnG-MTT $ 11.50 (2 Players)
20/40 No-Limit Hold'em (2 Players)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy.com Elephant 0.96.31219.2 by www.pokerstrategy.com

Preflop: Hero is SB with 8 :spade:, 5
Hero raises 40 to 80, BB calls

Flop: (160) 4 :diamond:, 3 :club:, 2
BB checks,
Hero bets 80,
BB raises 320 to 400,
Hero raises 825 to 1225 (All In), BB calls

Turn: (2610) 5

River: (2610) T

Final Pot: 2610

Results follow (Highlight to see):
Hero shows a pair of fives (8s, 5s) --> (5d, 5s, 4d, Tc, 8s)
BB shows a pair of fours (Jh, 4h) --> (4d, 4h, 5d, Tc, Jh)

Hero wins 2610 with a pair of fives (8s, 5s) --> (5d, 5s, 4d, Tc, 8s)

Villain was a good aggressive player, i had a fairly tight image so i dont think he putted me there on anything, he c/r me once before on a similar flop and i folded. But i really didnt expect him to call, a very bad call from his side imo.

I would play some more but i cant concentrate any more since in the last 60 hours i got only 4 hours of sleep (energy drinks ftw) so now im going to sleep with peaceful mind

Current BR:

Originally posted by Ickki
Congrats on hitting those $200. Must have felt great to finally get back up after that very long break even stretch. Amazing heater. Keep it up!

Thanks!

hi all,

i really have no idea whats happening to me...ive been on such heater, its actually tilting lol ♦

playing very good - and getting rewarded feels so gooood, i honestly never in my life been in this kinda upswing, not just poker, but also sports betting, live poker, everything that has something to do with money im upswinging it

except college but fuck it, nothings perfect ♦

It took me 30 days to go from $55 to $200, and it took me about 24 hours to go from $200 to $300

with this rate, i should be playing 20s by friday ♦ but im not going to do that, i dont feel im good enough for it.

h50n sent me mersennearys video about R.O.F.L. which opens your eyes a lot about the endgame - its worth pure gold imo, the guy should have like a phd in husng

as for life - im having 5 exams this week and have to write a seminar on the topic: "Croatian public on the subject of poker" - have no problem doing that cause theres a lot of things to write, but im good with writing as phil hellmuth is to cash games.

Also recently im trying to get a habit of waking up in 8 AM. I really hate waking up at 12 or so cause the day just rushes by. Anyways thats not going so well since i get tired around 11 pm, gotta change my eating habbits....too much junk food recently imo.

back to poker

my 300$ giraffe:

Current BR: $306.55

congrats. yeah I find its wiser to increase the size of roll reserved for a certain stake as you go above the $10 games.

I used 1/2 kelly BRM for a bit, and its a nice alternative, but find what works for you.

so whats the game plan? you sticking with HUSNGs all the way to the $200's or gonna move to HUNL later , or?

Ill stick with husngs till 1000$, then ill try some heads up cash game....see how that goes and then ill decide what to do

but as far as im hearing, nl50hu is full of hitnrunners, which will get me on tilt easily so i dont know how ev+ would be for me to play it :/

well see

hello,moovet just rad all your blog,keep up the good work. I will start to play husng with my first 50$,can you tell me something what i need to know as im new to husng,but not new to poker. maybe some videos,articles etc.? i will be glad if you can help me

im taking a day off today, im just gonna play 5$ 10k guarantee on full tilt and watch top gear ♦ hope my heater keeps on throughout the tourney

@ gamerfromlv

- if you can afford it, get a subscription for husng.com and start from there

if not, go to twoplustwo forums headsup sng section and read as much as you can

dont be a bankroll nit in the beginning if you know youre better than your limit, moove down when youre playing scared money or experiencing a downswing

start a blog, dunno why but majority of players who are blogging are winning players ♦

ah,don't have that much money,can't afford husng.com i just want to be about 400$+ in month,i know it's really easy,and it's big money for us - latvians today i got my money,will start blog here at the evening. thank you for your advice

HEEEHAAWW ♦

Known Players:
[tg]Position_Stack: hands/vp$ip/RaisePreflop/AF/WTS/ORL/BBvsSteal/W$SD;Hero_1425:///////;BB_1575:///////;[/tg]
SnG-MTT $ 11.50 (2 Players)
15/30 No-Limit Hold'em (2 Players)
Hand recorder used for this poker hand: PokerStrategy.com Elephant 0.96.31219.2 by www.pokerstrategy.com

Preflop: Hero is SB with 5 :club:, 3
Hero raises 30 to 60, BB calls

Flop: (120) 6 :spade:, 5 :spade:, 3
BB checks,
Hero bets 90,
BB raises 90 to 180,
Hero raises 420 to 600,
BB raises 915 to 1515 (All In), Hero calls (All In), BB gets uncalled bet back

Turn: (2850) 3

River: (2850) A

Final Pot: 2850

Results follow (Highlight to see):
Hero shows a full house, threes full of fives (5c, 3h) --> (3d, 3c, 3h, 5s, 5c)
BB shows two pairs, sixes and fives (6h, 5d) --> (6s, 6h, 5s, 5d, Ah)

Hero wins 2850 with a full house, threes full of fives (5c, 3h) --> (3d, 3c, 3h, 5s, 5c)

this hand was played so badly, i shouldve fold or at least call on the flop with given reads (station, raises only monsters)

and when i saw that three on the turn....just made me sick...i know its kinda weird but hitting a 2 outer is actually as bad as losing to a 2 outer in my case...i tilted and quit session after this match

but whatever, i guess it has to happen to me sometimes ♦ variance ftw

giraff:

Current BR: $402.25

took two shots at 22s; won one, lost one

i dont feel comfortable playing 22s, im playing scared money...

Current BR: $421.25

DOOMSWITCH

was expecting it...and it came

its a lot worse then it looks on the graph, 80% of my games were lost due to 2-6 outers...ah well
im thinking of moving my roll to stars, dunno yet

moving down to $6+0.25 husng till i get it going again

BR: $300.19

Meh update

My exams are running, so a lot of my time goes into studying, but i played bout 100 games since my last update....not going so good

Im running 6% ROI under EV, getting coolered a lot = getting on tilt = playing bad...and in combination with bad luck, that cant be good ♦

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The graph looks better then it should i think...

The frustrating part of it all is why does my upswings last 3 days, but my downswings more than a week?
It just sucks to get beaten by a total fish who 2 outered you on the river and then he rejects rematch -.-

Current BR: $320.65

i just lold so hard i had to put it here

♦

$400 UPDATE

Here I am again ♦ just a quick update

my exams are nearly finished, have 3 more, 2 of them are easy so im prolly not gonna study it at all, while the 3rd is the hardest, i have that on monday.

When that finishes....GRIND TIME!!!
cant wait

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these are just the 6's and 11's, i eliminated the 2's in filter
im very proud of my ev line and its direction ♦

Current BR: $404.15

Congrats on getting out of that downer, and thanks for the sweat today. :-)

Keep it up!