TalkingPoker Heads Up Tourney - Thursday, 9:30...
 

I know we had talked about doing this tonight, but I'm hoping with a little more notice, we'll have a better turn out. Our turn out to the last one of these (Heads Up matches) was pretty bad.

Here are the details:
/ Tourney / Private / 31328977
Thursday, 9/7/06 9:30 PM ET
NLHE HU Matches
$10+1
Password: headsupbaby

Registration is open!

What happened to the wednesday nite ones? Thusday = first nite campus pub is open = hitting on the freshies when the gf isnt looking nite. Needless to say, I cant make this one.

We are having our TPF Fantasy Football draft this Wednesday night.

The Wednesday ones kind of died off when the last one had like 4 people sign up or something sad like that.

We need at least 10 for me to bother with this again any time soon.

I'm up for it, but I won't be able to sign up until closer to start time.

Same for me, if I can do it it will be a last minute thing.

registered.

Dammit - I forgot all about this and have plans to watch the game. I have to unregister. If something changes and I can play, I will, but given the whopping ONE other person registered, it doesn't look like this was gonna be a big turnout anyway.

No more complaining about not having tourneys like these when I set them up and no one plays.

guess im out to then lol

Well, I'm registered now and now I'm the only one...

iull prolly play if we can get at least 4 in

screw it, im in now.

only me and the Radio DJ.

urg
 

I leave for work at 10pm so cant play :(

In... which makes 6.

Kurn's a luckbox... I have no doubt now that he won $1M on that show. :D

Couple hands from my HU match w/Kurn...


PokerStars Game #6207506195: Tournament #31328977, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level II (15/30) - 2006/09/07 - 21:43:31 (ET)
Table '31328977 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: KURN (1175 in chips)
Seat 2: ReelDeal-Jax (1825 in chips)
KURN: posts small blind 15
ReelDeal-Jax: posts big blind 30
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ReelDeal-Jax [Kd Ad]
KURN: calls 15
ReelDeal-Jax: raises 90 to 120
KURN: calls 90
*** FLOP *** [4h Kh 3h]
ReelDeal-Jax: bets 190
KURN: raises 865 to 1055 and is all-in
ReelDeal-Jax: calls 865
*** TURN *** [4h Kh 3h] [7h]
*** RIVER *** [4h Kh 3h 7h] [5d]
ReelDeal-Jax said, "bah"
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ReelDeal-Jax: shows [Kd Ad] (a pair of Kings)
KURN: shows [8h 7d] (a flush, King high)
KURN collected 2350 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2350 | Rake 0
Board [4h Kh 3h 7h 5d]
Seat 1: KURN (button) (small blind) showed [8h 7d] and won (2350) with a flush, King high
Seat 2: ReelDeal-Jax (big blind) showed [Kd Ad] and lost with a pair of Kings

Anyone not make that call?

Now for the real doosie...

PokerStars Game #6207693255: Tournament #31328977, $10+$1 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level III (25/50) - 2006/09/07 - 21:58:10 (ET)
Table '31328977 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: KURN (730 in chips)
Seat 2: ReelDeal-Jax (2270 in chips)
KURN: posts small blind 25
ReelDeal-Jax: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to ReelDeal-Jax [9d Kd]
KURN: calls 25
ReelDeal-Jax: raises 150 to 200
KURN: raises 530 to 730 and is all-in
ReelDeal-Jax: calls 530
*** FLOP *** [8h 7d 2d]
*** TURN *** [8h 7d 2d] [9s]
*** RIVER *** [8h 7d 2d 9s] [6s]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
ReelDeal-Jax: shows [9d Kd] (a pair of Nines)
KURN: shows [Qh Tc] (a straight, Six to Ten)
KURN collected 1460 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 1460 | Rake 0
Board [8h 7d 2d 9s 6s]
Seat 1: KURN (button) (small blind) showed [Qh Tc] and won (1460) with a straight, Six to Ten
Seat 2: ReelDeal-Jax (big blind) showed [9d Kd] and lost with a pair of Nines

:thumbsup:

gg kurn.....luckbox:thumbsup:

look for a brief recap of this HU challenge on the next episode of TPR!

You guys are lucky I had work tonight! :rolleyes:

Always tip the dealer!:D

Ah, now I see how the luckbox works! :thumbsup:

yep, what made you call the last hand on my all in with 2nd pair no kicker,as the bets i was doing along the way should have thrown all reads way out:confused:

Player Image :)

<shrug> Many of your checks and bets throught the match were individually unreadable. However, after a while some seemed out of place in the context of the earlier play of the hand. When you made that last bet I thought "Huh?? That doesn't make sense." Big bets that make no sense are usually bluffs.

Yeah, you definitely got the short end of the deck on these.

The second hand, though, is clearly a kamikaze move, hoping you'll lay down a good hand and keep your chip lead. If not, at that point I'm willing to gamble as a 3:2 dog. Got lucky.

The first hand is different. I already sense that you get how to play HU, so your raise means, well, your raise means you feel like raising simply because I limped. When you bet the flop, as aggro as I am, I figure you don't have a flush and also you probably don't have a single big flush card more than 1/3 of the time. In those cases I think you're more likely to check and let me take a stab at the pot. Also, I think the bet is more likely to represent a K than be a K, so in short, I think I have huge fold equity when I push. I don't think I was wrong about your range for the bet, its just that you had one of the hands in your range that you would call with more often. I got a bit unlucky with this one at first because I really expected you to fold, but I was still close to even money when the cards were flipped over.

When I get to HU at the end of SNGs, I win close to 2/3 of the time, mainly because I play aggressively and most opponents fold too often.

Of course, sometimes they call correctly and I still win.;)

That's nice to hear from you Kurn. I credit HOH vol. 2 and my time spent here reading your, TP, Zy and other's posts.