It's been awhile since I did not do a quick post whine mode ... That's what I propose today, for a change. So I look and j'empathe (j'empâte? I paw? Jean-Pat? So I am in empathy, whatever), and respond immediately to those who have already jumped to the conclusion and say: "But he does not care of our mouths, one, post a whine in 2nd place with a tournament and 1500 in € end? Will have to come down to earth dude! "
To these, therefore, I say that if they had played for me this f *** HU, the longest and most frustrating I have ever to play, they too would whine mode. For real. As they say, only victory is beautiful. Moreover, the purpose of this post is to tell you, this HU, and then tell me if you would not have wanted to whine, you too ...
Exactly one week after my last success, so I attack the same tournament at 50 € in parallel with some others that will not work. As much last week j 'were particularly pleased with my game as much this is not the case, far from it yesterday. Many errors and blows played particularly badly, like when I played passively in the semifinals after a pair of KK have just call PF hoping for a squeeze that I am still waiting. Flop 655 with two hearts, I pay just the CBET (idiot I am!), An ace and then turn a heart riveting making vain attempts to gain further against the 88 tokens of my opponent who would probably not have too hesitate to give me the PF or the flop. At this point, I do not have many chips (a little over 20 blinds) and spoil the golden opportunity to double infuriates me against myself ...
However, I do not commit any lethal mistake and trouble by being active enough to mount the chip without spectacular shots. I must say that I am particularly well placed: The best player of my table (and probably the tournament), who asked a lot of problems with his big stack and its rate of 3bet 2 digit being immediately to my left, to undergo a serious problem since the internet has solved Sitout early in the semi-finals and until its elimination in early TF. As the player right after him is the kind of player that everyone dreams of having his left when the blinds and antes are high: I consciously stole systematically without missing a single occasion and not once has he defended. In short, it was like butter, and it's still comfortable to have an annuity and regular chips ... I sometimes allow myself the luxury of 3bet position of SB with "any two adventurers wishing to explore the BB Sitout ... And so I arrive in TF with the third stack.
Although I am not happy with my mid-tournament, as I made a nice TF. With very few cards, I managed to be the most active and print my rhythm to the table.
A moment of madness when even when I pass a big bluff (well, maybe I had the best hand, but saw my house was a huge bluff a little crazy) when I'm all in with 77 after having to raise the BB and limper CBET on a flop of J63 with 2 hearts. When the Ace of heart comes on the turn, but I hesitate to give me that this card would be even scarier for my opponent than it is for me and I send while tightening the buttocks .. . Phew, it's OK!
Shortly after I double my best hand of the TF: I brela my 99 OOP makes me pay flop and turn with a draw that feels obliged to the river bluff. I'm just another big blow after paying the small IP 3bet my opponent with A8s. He never recovered from the evil of which I am proof checkIt Behind the flop Axx and pay me the following two barrels with QQ ... I'll finish it soon after on a coin flip and will reiterate the scope of the coin flip winner against another short few minutes later. And here I am second to 5 left with a big stack of about 60 blinds.
Then it will be a long series of bins but when you have the token, it does not matter: I raise a hand to 2, with light 3bet nimp and CBET 100% or nearly flops, avoiding just the confrontations with too advanced chip leader. Of course my game ultra maniac aggressive upward without any playable hand sometimes makes me drop packets of feathers, but nothing serious and my pile of chips increases inexorably ... We remain long at 4 and it's finally the smallest of my 3 opponents who will accompany me in HU.
HU is balanced in chips (he took out the last 2 players, the desert card robbed me of any inclination to showdown and forced me to just pick up the dead money that was good enough let me) but I'm pretty confident and already thinking about the title of my post that day to celebrate the Rebelote a week after ...
It is exactly 2:53 when we play the first hand, we have each of 50 armored belt.
From my little experience, HU, balanced even in chips, are generally tend to be rather fast, so it is rare not to find themselves in one of the following scenarios:
- The opponent is a maniac, we quickly found a hand good enough for any party, carpet and outcome decided after only a few hands
- The enemy is afraid of (/ do not know) in HU play, then adopts a strategy game preflop and did not hesitate to belt frequently for 50 blinds, here again we must usually not long to understand and find an opportunity to offer him the gamble he dreams
- The opponent is aggressive and plays well, but two or three set-ups or bluffs failed / successful can decant Part fast enough in one direction or the other
Here I am faced with an opponent a little passive calling station, who calls his chips very easily, do not bluff, where it has not affected autofold, but do not let it get easier as somewhat connected the flop. He also plays very well in the sense that it does not commit big mistakes putting his stack at risk. Accordingly, no confrontation carpet as we are deep, but a scenario where I'm going slowly nibble his stack being as aggressive, until the carpet is small enough to finish.
"To finish" ... Ah here is where it gets ... As well tell you right away, it was the HU longest I've ever played. Exactly 276 hands! I made some errors that prevented me to finish. And I had to do with a litany of interstellar trash. More exactly, when I had a good hand, there was usually nothing in the face. And as it does not bluffing ...
So here is the scenario that emerges and makes me think of this film starring Bill Murray and Andy McDowell superb, you know this guy who wakes up every morning on Groundhog Day and continuously relives the same day. .. Or in this parody video game that Gignols had in 1993 when Chirac was chasing his job in two years of ... He kept being extended but is still recovering and will repeat his course.
short, HU should please those who love the comedy of repetition. I do, but here, you know, it does not make me laugh so much ...
Go, go. It is 2:53, and it has 290K and 280K me ...
3:12. It is already being played 19min is a long time for a HU. No shots really important, but I'm more aggressive and I have nibbled his carpet. I raised almost all of my buttons and have 3bet quite often. It has only 130K, 440K and me, I smell the end ...
Come on, we will continue to take a lot on it. It has little, 7 or 8, it should fold easily because I represent well on 9 or Ace:
Ouch, good will bin it be hard to bluff.
Main Next I should not pay, is the first time that I made a pot bet river like that, he may be J10. Unless he uses his passive image to try to tear myself away. Well, I'm just not able to fold two pairs here, it's been 20 minutes that it lasts, it must end ...
And now, 2 errors on two consecutive hands and everything is re ... That's okay, let's be patient, we will have to wear ...
I realize that my best chance is probably flop play and find situations where I can gain the right hands he will pay me with a weak hand as he did here with his pair of 7. So I start to limp some of my buttons, to provoke such situations. And it works: I get paid 2 times (once 3 K4 barrel with a board and once K10884 two barrels with 67 on board KQ656), which compensates well the times I leave my 4-bet light with J10o. And I continue to nibble ...
3:21, 28 minutes of play s it, he is cornered. I have 415K and 155K more than he did. And I touch the hand that will make me win the tournament! My second pair that fits on the turn, it's magic! Bet he is good he is committed, it will necessarily pay me ...
Arf is not true, it never dies this guy! I should just call to catch it? Is he really could not be run? And anyway does it not commit? It is human to fold to stay small with just 93,000 chips?
Nevermind, come on, we concentrate, we will finish ... Come on, I start to choke and carpets to all hands. It happens once, twice. Oh, he ends up paying. It is 3:22, the time is right to win a 40/60, no?
And no ... Okay, one day I will have it!
3:25, 32mn of the game .. A monster at last. I slowplay not to frighten him, he is okay to start moving on the turn. Tin, not even once again he did not touch anything ... Come on, still trying to gain river, you never know ... But, yes! S it, it cracks! Finally! And the winner is ...
Tin is not true! Highlander is this guy! Starting to get tired I'm tired, I want to finish. Come on, okay we refocus, I will not let go now ...
Aggression, aggression, aggression. But still no big meeting that allows to finish. It's nothing, I loose nothing, I eat, I eat ... Well I want them anyway, he came around 100K, I shot out of breath at 3beta carpet.
3:48, 55 minutes of play, it's not possible! Oh that's it, he pays me. Well I'm not the best, but it's a 40/60 anyway, go this time it will pass ...
Damn! But it'll never finish this thing is not possible! I can not anymore, me ... Ok, must be ...
Ouch ouch ouch, I'm starting to get tired, really. I rate 2 and bluffs behind me here for the first time in years ... Damn, rebuke you, it is too late to lose this game!
3:56, over an hour of play .. S it, finally the opportunity to almost finish it, I flop a flush and he seems to have respondent. I'm sure he pays me if I charge for half his stack on the river, but it may as well pay me my carpet. Come on, I try it!
Caramba Alone! It goes through the timer, but he eventually folder ... And then he asked me if I had the cat in the Ace. So there I want to cry. But we must not, must be ...
3:58, I hit the nut straight on the turn. He bet, I raise ... It fold. I'll never do it is not possible ... I continued the assault, and his stack continues to descend.
3:59. The income here to 120K, and I hit a pocket! Hallelujah! Cool, I 3bet carpet, go we will win the coin flip!
Well, no. At the same time, it was on that kind of coin flips then, they are often not earn super ... Meanwhile, all is once again to re ...
Damn, he went right moves: It touches on a top three of a kind first hand, the AA on another. These are not huge shots, but they hurt me. Fatigue is increasingly present.
And then comes this shot where I hit two pair but he has set. Only the dangerous board with 4 cards the same color allows me to limit the damage. But that's it I'm behind, it has 345K and 225K me.
4:05, first "monster", I hit a pair of 1010. I have the courage to do in the fineness and 3bet carpet. He pays is the first coin flip this confrontation ...
It remains for me to congratulate my opponent for his tenacity and fortitude.
And here it is 4:10, I'm going to bed from 1500 € richer but with the urge to cry ...
So who said it was not possible, a whine post after good perf?
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