[Talking Poker]

So.... JD and I played about 325 hands HU tonight, 2 tabling 2/4 NL. He found me at a 3/6 table and offered to have the winner transfer the loser back half of the difference, but we decided to just play 2/4 instead.

Overall, it went well. I definitely learned a few things. JD is better than me, for sure, but he doesn't think he's as much better than me as I do. That's nice and all, but he's got me. Where his biggest edge is is with pure postflop aggression. PReflop too, I guess, but definitely postflop. He's willing to make some crazy BIG raises with nothing - and I don't mean just a drawe (which I still struggle with, even), I mean NOTHING. Like 4 high. Fucker.

We chatted the whole time we played, discussing some of the hands and telling each other what we had afterwards. I started off up a bit, then ran disgustingly bad and was down about $1200 after , but finally started hitting some hands and won back about $1000 of it.

The only BIG pot I won (all in) was when my set of 8s held up against his QQ on an 89T board. He played it right. Oh, I also won a big pot with J9 after I flopped a FH and JD made a straight on the river (he had a FD on the turn too). I lost our big coinflip (TT vs AK). I'd still say variance was slightly in his favor overall, but I definitely had ther edge for the last 1/3 of the session.

We had lots of interesting hands. Maybe I'll dig through PT and post some tomorrow.