Owned Again

I posted the other day about a sexy river check-raise that resulted in my opponent abruptly quitting on me, up about a buyin and a half. He found me Sunday and we played two tables of heads up for 4-5 hours. Initially, I was owning him. He was opening 100% of his buttons for a min-raise but had folded to 100% of 3-bets for the first hour or so. Naturally I ramped up the aggression, won every small pot, and got some big hands paid off. At my peak, I was up 7 buy-ins on him. I felt like I had the better grasp on the gameflow and was adjusting to him faster than he was adjusting to me, which is exactly what you need in a heads up game. Here are a few hands where I owned him:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $20.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

SB ($3042.50)
Hero (BB) ($4911.50)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 2, 7
SB bets $40, Hero calls $20

Flop: ($80) 3, 9, K (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $60, Hero raises to $166, SB raises to $400, Hero raises to $777, 1 fold

Total pot: $880 | Rake: $0.50

Results:
Hero didn’t show 2, 7.
Outcome: Hero won $879.50

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $20.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($10051.75)
BB ($2135.75)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 5, 7
Hero bets $60, BB calls $40

Flop: ($120) 8, 6, 2 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $77, BB raises to $240, Hero calls $163

Turn: ($600) 8 (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $222, BB raises to $560, Hero calls $338

River: ($1720) J (2 players)
BB checks, Hero bets $9191.75 (All-In), 1 fold

Total pot: $1720 | Rake: $0.50

Results:
Hero didn’t show 5, 7 (nothing).
Outcome: Hero won $1719.50

This was actually a shove for like $1200, everything he had left. I maybe could have gotten away with an even smaller bet, but I didn’t want him to talk himself into a call with Ace-high.

As the night wore on, I got both tired and cocky. It was a bad combination, and I launched a few big bluffs trying to push him off of pretty strong hands:

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $20.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) ($9509.25)
BB ($3670)

Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, 10
Hero bets $60, BB raises to $180, Hero calls $120

Flop: ($360) Q, 2, 3 (2 players)
BB bets $200, Hero calls $200

Turn: ($760) A (2 players)
BB bets $500, Hero calls $500

River: ($1760) A (2 players)
BB bets $500, Hero raises to $8629.25 (All-In), BB calls $2290 (All-In)

Total pot: $7340 | Rake: $0.50

Results:
Hero had 10, 10 (flush, Ace high).
BB had A, K (flush, Ace high).
Outcome: BB won $7339.50

He has the Jc or the Kc almost always here and a full house basically never (he wouldn’t bet turn). This should be an easier call for him to make with an Ace in his hand, since there are fewew full house combos for me to have, but I don’t think that factored into his decision. I imagine he does fold the Jc, but I don’t think he has that often enough to make this a good bluff.

So naturally I try again to represent a full house, and he again snap-calls with an irrelevantly strong hand:
Full Tilt No-Limit Hold’em, $20.00 BB (2 handed) – Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (BB) ($10814.25)
SB ($2373)

Preflop: Hero is BB with 8, 6
SB bets $40, Hero calls $20

Flop: ($80) 7, A, 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $60, Hero calls $60

Turn: ($200) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $140, Hero raises to $469, SB calls $329

River: ($1138) 3 (2 players)
Hero bets $10245.25 (All-In), SB calls $1804 (All-In)

Total pot: $4746 | Rake: $0.50

Results:
SB had A, 9 (two pair, Aces and nines).
Hero had 8, 6 (one pair, threes).
Outcome: SB won $4745.50

Not a lot to say about this one, it’s just bad.

He insisted on quitting the table where we were 300BB deep and starting a new 100BB table. I was pissed at the time, but he may have done me a favor. In any event, I picked up a few hands towards the end and got paid to finish slightly ahead on him. In fact, I’m beating him for 9 BB/100 between our two sessions, but I’m still very frustrated with myself for my blatantly poor play.