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

[Talking Poker]

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!

[MAYHEM45]

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.

[Talking Poker]

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.

[Kurn]

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

[Reel Deal]

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

[kkirk1329]

registered.

[Talking Poker]

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.

[kkirk1329]

guess im out to then lol

[Robbie Robb]

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

[eejit101]

iull prolly play if we can get at least 4 in

[eejit101]

screw it, im in now.

only me and the Radio DJ.

[BrianSwa]

I leave for work at 10pm so cant play

[Reel Deal]

In... which makes 6.

[Reel Deal]

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

[Reel Deal]

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

[kkirk1329]

gg kurn.....luckbox

[Robbie Robb]

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

[Zybomb]

You guys are lucky I had work tonight!

[Kurn]

Always tip the dealer!

[Reel Deal]

Ah, now I see how the luckbox works!

[eejit101]

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

[Zybomb]

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[Kurn]

<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.

[Kurn]

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.

[Reel Deal]

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.