I played some guy in heads up PLO today. I made short work of him and his $200 stack ($2/$4 blinds), He rebought and I was again chopping away at him, then he started taking forever to make decisions, then he sat out. I made $212 in profit from him.
Then I sat at a real juicy $15/$30 shorthanded game and got my balls kicked in. This included me flopping TPTK in a heads up capped pot with AK and losing to AT, when he nailed a ten on the river. That was fun. AA lost to JJ, JJ lost to AA. All sorts of good stuff. Lost a quick $859. Don’t worry though, I cleared $5 in bonus.
Thanks to the suggestion from my friend Peter, I have decided to read one poker book a week. I’ve always considered myself intelligent and I don’t want to stop gaining knowledge simply because college wasn’t working for me. Book suggestions are welcome, the following are being considered.
Non fIction is a little tougher. Maybe ‘Thus spoke Zarathustra’ by Nietzsche? That was always a fun one, and certainly a challenge for someone who wants so engage in some ‘intelligent’ reading.
I deposited on Carbon Poker so I could get the $600 bonus while I’m setting up my Carbon account with rakeback. I played an hour at 3 $10/$20 shorthanded tables and one heads-up $10/$20 table.
Right off the bat I was down about $800. I made a nice comeback and was up a few hundreds until the fish I was playing heads up with starting getting comically lucky. He literally called my flop check raise, turn bet, and river bet, with jack high with a bad kicker no less. He was so bad. He’d have like J2 on a KQ2 flop and I’d have Q9 and he’d say to himself “I got a pair of 2s, where in the hell am I going?” and just nailed a deuce on the river. It was pretty ugly. I really think I should play more heads up limit though, because I really think I could make good money if I played it more, and it’s really fun. Total damage: $356.75