Am i getting to tricky?

[valenzuela]

#Game No : 1910550526
***** Hand History for Game 1910550526 *****
NL Hold'em $10 Buy-in + $1 Entry Fee Trny:11390553 Level:6 Blinds(150/300) - Sunday, April 17, 19:19:21 EDT 2005
Table Table 11047 (Real Money)
Seat 2 is the button
Total number of players : 2
Seat 1: jloth ( $3940 )
Seat 2: D_Maybe ( $4060 )
Trny:11390553 Level:6
Blinds(150/300)
** Dealing down cards **
Dealt to D_Maybe [ Js 4d ]
>You have options at Table 11706 Table!.
D_Maybe raises [450].
jloth calls [300].
** Dealing Flop ** [ Kh, 6c, 8h ]
jloth checks.
D_Maybe checks.
** Dealing Turn ** [ 4h ]
>You have options at Table 11706 Table!.
>You have options at Table 11706 Table!.
>You have options at Table 11706 Table!.
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jloth bets [800].
>You have options at Table 11706 Table!.
D_Maybe is all-In [3460]

[Blarg]

Your preflop raise seems very weak to me. That seems too "tricky" .. or something.

You're losing at least half your stack to play this through the river anyway, and your hand kinda stinks vs. three hearts, so if you're going to play, my feeling is a push is a good idea. But I'd fold it. Not only may you be beaten by a better kicker or better pair, or even a flush, but anyone with one heart still has another chance to hit a flush that you, having no hearts, don't. There's even the very unlikely possibility of a straight, which again you don't have a draw for.

[valenzuela]

Maybe this is a form of tilt but to break the push/fold rutine i sometimes play heads-up raising instead of pushing. /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[Apathy]

looks ok to me. Pretty player dependant though.

[tjh]

That looks fine to me but I am a noob still trying to get enough tourneys in to make a worthy sample size.

Geeze, heads up play is so hard to analyze. You play so many hands with the sam player and they happen so fast that you change gears every few minutes.

I play UB so once it is heads up the blinds are not usually deadly so there may be a difference compared to party. But my HU section of the tourney is usually like this.

I bet 3 times the big blind from the small blind and steal his big blind while they check to me and I see my BB flop for free. Or they raise to me and I fold. Then I feel like that routine can not work for ever so after a few minutes I change gears.. and now I go all in with premium hands or I slow down and start being aggressive on the flop. Then I go to push any two, then back to mere raises. So a snapshot of that exchange at any point in time would be useless. You find a weakness and exploit it until they plug the leak and then you look for another weakness. So yes sometimes a raise instead of a push preflop is just fine. I like your play there. No problems.

I assume you had a read on him that the 800 chip bet was an attempt to buy and not an attempt to trap ?

I guess it comes down to this. If you are confident that his bet represented absolutely nothing then push.

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tjh