I just played my round one match with Gibler in the May Heads-Up Championship, and took it down in two games.
Game one was pretty uneventful. My strategy was to sit back and play very quietly until I had an idea of his heads-up skill. I've never really sat with Gibler and don't know too much about him other than he's been pwning some of the same tourneys I used to love playing every night (3rs, 5rs, 18k gtd, etc.). I definitely was giving him credit as a good player coming in, so I figured I would see what kind of approach he takes.
He was pretty quiet also, it didn't seem like he was bullying me around or anything, and he had no problem checking a flop after raising preflop, and most times would also check the turn as well meaning he had missed and wasn't doing the standard c-betting. I didn't want to create a Laggy image, though, so I didn't even try to pick up the pots that he was giving up on. I decided to let him think that I am a totally honest and straightforward player, not getting too tricky or anything.
I checked down lots of pots and maybe stabbed a turn or river if and only if I hit. I don't think I ever raised pf and did lots of limping and checking flops.
I was a card rack once in the first match with the 6-4 of spades. I limped the button and he raised it 4x I think. He hadn't done that very much the entire match, as we had seen most flops for just limps. The flop came down AKx and it check checked. I turned the 4 and it check checked again, I believe. The river came down 6 and he paid off a decent sized bet with KQ.
Really nothing else big happened, and I took that one down.
Match 2 was fucking crazy. Hand one he pushed on the button and I folded a raggedy Jack, I believe. Hand two I limped KQs and he pushed the BB. I decided something wasn't right here, as he isn't a bad player and would have no reason to push here with a monster hoping to get called by a weaker hand. That and the fact that he is unlikely to wake up with a monster twice in a row if indeed that is his strat led me to call it.
He turned over A9o and I flopped a flush draw. The river came Q and I took it down. That put him with 40 chips to my 2960. The next hand was it when my 10-4 or something held up.
That was that and I moved on to round two of the May Heads-Up Championship.
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Quick Update
Haven't been updating as much as I'd like, but I've been hella busy lately with baseball starting, school, and work.
A little update on me, I quit my job. No more folding fucking clothes and opening boxes at the mall, I'm planning on spending my summer partying with friends, playing baseball, and taking a serious shot and building a nice bankroll to make a living off of. My goal is to make the top 90% on PocketFives TLB, although I think I'm capable of higher I decided to set a reasonable goal. I want to do that and have at least 20k in my br by the time school starts again. Right now my active roll is chillin around 6 or 7k after I've taken a little out to save and obv. had the losses I've talked about here.
I have been playing the 105 and 55 Turbo SNGS on Tilt and Stars lately, and I'm running like absolute shit. Honestly, if my money goes in the middle, I am not winning. It's just variance and it's part of the life I've chosen so that's fine with me, but that doesn't make it suck any less when you're just at that spot where JJ is not fading A6 and KK runs into AA more than should be possible. Very unfortunate, and dealing with this swing is my main goal right now.
I think I'm doing ok with it, I'm not panicking or questioning my abilities at all, although I am considering stepping down one level since this downswing has taken a considerable chunk out of my roll. Most likely I'm going to go back to playing the tourneys I played before my recent successes. I'm rejoining the FCP Rebuy Micro Brewery crew that plays the 3r and 5r every night, as I haven't taken part in those tourneys in quite awhile. I'm also going to move down to the 30 and 33 Turbo SNGS just until I get my groove back. I should be able to fade my downswing much better there, as I think the considerably lower level of play will allow me more maneuvering room and my bankroll will not be hurt quite as much. I'm down a good 3k in the last 3 weeks and that's not fun for obvious reasons.
The FCP Heads-Up Championship for May is starting up tonight, and the guys and I have got it all ready. I drew the shittiest and toughest bracket in the tourney, facing off with Gibler in the first round. My bracket also has Fluffdog, MoneyInBag, Rurtis, KevinJA8, Doublemeup, and the Stein. That's shitty and whomever comes out of this bracket is going to deserve the win no matter what happens in the final four, in my opinion.
Ok, that's just a quick update, I'll hopefully be back soon for more. I'm off to play my match with Gibler and hopefully take down some cash tonight, back to the MTTS this week!!!
Whaddya hear, whaddya say!!???,
Jesse
A little update on me, I quit my job. No more folding fucking clothes and opening boxes at the mall, I'm planning on spending my summer partying with friends, playing baseball, and taking a serious shot and building a nice bankroll to make a living off of. My goal is to make the top 90% on PocketFives TLB, although I think I'm capable of higher I decided to set a reasonable goal. I want to do that and have at least 20k in my br by the time school starts again. Right now my active roll is chillin around 6 or 7k after I've taken a little out to save and obv. had the losses I've talked about here.
I have been playing the 105 and 55 Turbo SNGS on Tilt and Stars lately, and I'm running like absolute shit. Honestly, if my money goes in the middle, I am not winning. It's just variance and it's part of the life I've chosen so that's fine with me, but that doesn't make it suck any less when you're just at that spot where JJ is not fading A6 and KK runs into AA more than should be possible. Very unfortunate, and dealing with this swing is my main goal right now.
I think I'm doing ok with it, I'm not panicking or questioning my abilities at all, although I am considering stepping down one level since this downswing has taken a considerable chunk out of my roll. Most likely I'm going to go back to playing the tourneys I played before my recent successes. I'm rejoining the FCP Rebuy Micro Brewery crew that plays the 3r and 5r every night, as I haven't taken part in those tourneys in quite awhile. I'm also going to move down to the 30 and 33 Turbo SNGS just until I get my groove back. I should be able to fade my downswing much better there, as I think the considerably lower level of play will allow me more maneuvering room and my bankroll will not be hurt quite as much. I'm down a good 3k in the last 3 weeks and that's not fun for obvious reasons.
The FCP Heads-Up Championship for May is starting up tonight, and the guys and I have got it all ready. I drew the shittiest and toughest bracket in the tourney, facing off with Gibler in the first round. My bracket also has Fluffdog, MoneyInBag, Rurtis, KevinJA8, Doublemeup, and the Stein. That's shitty and whomever comes out of this bracket is going to deserve the win no matter what happens in the final four, in my opinion.
Ok, that's just a quick update, I'll hopefully be back soon for more. I'm off to play my match with Gibler and hopefully take down some cash tonight, back to the MTTS this week!!!
Whaddya hear, whaddya say!!???,
Jesse
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