gibs
08-01-2003, 02:20 PM
Recently in my home game after it broke up for the night, three of us decided to stick around and play some short handed NL HE. We each put in $5 (yeah we're big spenders /images/graemlins/smile.gif), and decided to play until one of us had it all. I took out one of my two opponents fairly early and was heads up with a good chip lead. This guy hasn't been playing very long, but has watched the WPT and loves how aggressive they play. Now this is a guy that I should have beat. I am a consistant winner at my home game, while he will usually be on the losing side unless he has a lucky night. The problem was I started getting cold cards, and I mean very cold. He started betting into me a lot, and there were times where I knew he was bluffing but my hand was so bad I just couldn't do anything. He ended up beating me when the flop came 8KK. I had an 8 and something else that I can't remember. He had a big chip lead so I decided to make my move and went all in. Turns out he had the king. So what do you do when playing heads up against this type of player when your're getting cold cards? Do you wait it out for some good hands? Or should I have come back over the top of him with nothing when I thought he was bluffing?