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Please help coach this heads up loser!
Here's the story. I am a fairly good SNG player who is usually capable of making it to the bubble or further, however, I am not very good at short handed play and seem to fall short of first more than my share of the time. I used to only play SNGs, but I realized that the most important phase is post-bubble and that since it's my weakest area, it wasn't worth it to keep playing them.
Now I signed up for Party Poker and am interested in the step tournies. I just tried my first level 1 ministep, which only allows the first place winner to advance. I DOMINATED the whole table for almost the entire thing, taking out more than half of the people. Then of course, when it got to heads up, I choked. I am going to post the 11 HU hands I played and ask for anyone to share comments on them. Obviously you can ignore the ones where we folded pre-flop, I just included them to show you where the money went between important hands. If you kind people are willing to help me out, I will continue to post future HU dispair in this thread. Villain seems pretty ABC to me. Hand 1 Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t4000) Button (t4000) Preflop: Hero is BB with 4[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. Button calls t200, Hero checks. Flop: (t600) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets t400</font>, Hero folds. Final Pot: t1000 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> No showdown. Button wins t1000. </font> Hand 2 (Should've put in a pre-flop raise here, I know. I guess I was trying to trap and end it all. I felt he'd been bluffing a bit) Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t3600) BB (t4400) Preflop: Hero is Button with Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], Q[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. Hero calls t200, BB checks. Flop: (t600) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], A[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t400</font>, BB folds. Final Pot: t1000 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> No showdown. Hero wins t1000. </font> Hand 3 (uh, he went all-in here... I dunno why the converter didn't reflect it) Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t4000) Button (t4000) Preflop: Hero is BB with 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. Button calls [t4000] , <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>. Final Pot: t400 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> No showdown. Button wins t400. </font> Hand 4 Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t3600) BB (t4400) Preflop: Hero is Button with 5[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. Hero calls t200, BB checks. Flop: (t600) 5[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> <font color="#CC3333">BB bets t400</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t800</font>, BB calls t400. Turn: (t2200) 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> BB checks, Hero calls [t2600] , BB folds. Final Pot: t2200 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> No showdown. Hero wins t2200. </font> Hand 5 Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t4800) Button (t3200) Preflop: Hero is BB with 6[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>. Final Pot: t400 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> No showdown. Hero wins t400. </font> Hand 6 (Uh ohhhh... first attempt at making a play. Always a sign of bad things to come for me) Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t5000) BB (t3000) Preflop: Hero is Button with 4[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 2[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. <font color="#CC3333">Hero raises to t1000</font>, BB calls t800. Flop: (t2200) Q[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], K[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img], 9[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> BB checks, <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t1800</font>, BB calls [t2200] . Turn: (t4000) 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> River: (t4000) 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Final Pot: t4000 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> Hero has 4h 2h (high card, king). BB has Tc Jh (straight, king high). Outcome: Hero wins t2200. BB wins t1800. </font> Hand 7 Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t2000) Button (t6000) Preflop: Hero is BB with 7[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t600</font>, Hero calls t400. Flop: (t1400) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img], 7[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Hero checks, <font color="#CC3333">Button bets t1200</font>, Hero calls [t1600] . Turn: (t2600) Q[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> River: (t2600) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Final Pot: t2600 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> Hero has 7s 8c (one pair, sevens). Button has 8h Ah (high card, ace). Outcome: Button wins t1400. Hero wins t1200. </font> Hand 8 Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t400 (2 handed) converter Hero (t4000) BB (t4000) Preflop: Hero is Button with 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. Hero calls t200, BB calls [t4000] t400, Hero folds. Final Pot: t600 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> No showdown. BB wins t600. </font> Hand 9 (They say you HAVE to make moves heads up, but I'll be damned if they ever work for me...) Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t500 (2 handed) converter Hero (t3600) Button (t4400) Preflop: Hero is BB with 2[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], J[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. Button calls t250, Hero checks. Flop: (t750) 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], T[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 8[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Hero checks, Button checks. Turn: (t750) 2[img]/images/graemlins/diamond.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t500</font>, Button calls t500. River: (t1750) 3[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> <font color="#CC3333">Hero bets t500</font>, <font color="#CC3333">Button raises to t1200</font>, Hero folds. Final Pot: t3450 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> Button doesn't show. Outcome: Button wins t3450. </font> Hand 10 Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t500 (2 handed) converter Hero (t2100) BB (t5900) Preflop: Hero is Button with 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/heart.gif[/img]. <font color="#666666">1 fold</font>. Final Pot: t500 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> No showdown. BB wins t500. </font> Hand 11 Party Poker No-Limit Hold'em Tourney, Big Blind is t500 (2 handed) converter Hero (t1850) Button (t6150) Preflop: Hero is BB with 9[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 5[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img]. Button calls t250, Hero checks. Flop: (t750) 4[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img], 3[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img], 6[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Hero calls [t1850] , Button calls t1350. Turn: (t2100) Q[img]/images/graemlins/spade.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> River: (t2100) K[img]/images/graemlins/club.gif[/img] <font color="#0000FF">(2 players)</font> Final Pot: t2100 Results in white below: <font color="#FFFFFF"> Hero has 9s 5c (high card, king). Button has 6d 7c (one pair, sixes). Outcome: Button wins t2100. </font> So am I trying to bluff too much here or did I just try in the wrong places? See any other big problems anywhere? Thanks for any help in advance. |
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Re: Please help coach this heads up loser!
I don't think many of us are qualified enough to answer your question, i'd try the Single Table Tournament forum.
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