10 Heads Up Victories in a Row

[Dice Man]

Just won the $20. I was lucky though, at one point beating his QQ with my J5 all in pre-flop.

***** Hand 522442917 *****
100.00/200.00 Texas Hold'em (PL) - 30 January 2007 15:25:07
Heads up $20 PL (Real /Tournament )
Seat 1: ooppkk (1330.00)
Seat 2: Dice Man (1670.00)
Dice Man post SB 100.00
ooppkk post BB 200.00
** Deal **
ooppkk [N/A, N/A]
Dice Man [Ac, 3s]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
Dice Man Raise to 600.00
ooppkk Call 600.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [6s, 6h, 2s]
*** Bet Round 2 ***
ooppkk All-in 730.00
Dice Man Call 730.00
*** Turn(Board): *** : [6s, 6h, 2s, 2c]
*** River(Board): *** : [6s, 6h, 2s, 2c, Jc]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 2660.00
ooppkk [8c, 9c] Pair of sixes Win :0.00
Dice Man [Ac, 3s] Two pair sixes and deuces Win :2660.00

[Haggis]

Nice one mate, whens the next round?

How are you coping with the upper levels? Is there much change in the calibre of the players yet?

How close are you to coping out and cashing out ?

[Matty H]

I can guarantee to you that mindless aggressiveness in heads up play only increases your chances of winning if you are already the least skilled player.

What on earth are you on about? Who mentioned mindless aggression? Agression is only mindless if used incorrectly. Personally I'd much rather be up against a tight passive player HU than a tight aggressive

[Dice Man]

Nice one mate, whens the next round?

How are you coping with the upper levels? Is there much change in the calibre of the players yet?

How close are you to coping out and cashing out ?

I think Ill play the $30 one after the value added game. The upper levels are definitely getting harder though. Quite often I'm not getting paid off with decent hands. However I've noticed that they are easier to read and rarely slow play hands. When they flop top pair or two pair they min-bet it under the gun, and min-bet the turn and river too which is really dodgy. It's taking too long to grind them down too which means they have more chances of swinging back a huge pot as the blinds increase. At the lower levels you can grind them down quickly and with little risk. The blind aggression people seem to solely exist at the $5 and $10 games, although they'll probably re-emerge at some point.
I don't think I'm going to cop out for a while. If I cash in the vat then I'll attempt to go all the way. If I dont then I might cop out if I win another two. Not sure yet. I think the wisest thing would be to cop out everytime you get to a new level. So if you kept winning you'd go like $3, $3, $5, $3, $5, $10, $3, $5, $10, $10, $3, $5, $10, $10, $20, because then you never find yourself in a situation where you are totally out of your depth money-wise, which I would definitely be at 300, 200 and 100.

What on earth are you on about? Who mentioned mindless aggression? Agression is only mindless if used incorrectly. Personally I'd much rather be up against a tight passive player HU than a tight aggressive

I haven't got to the tight aggressive players yet. They're either loose aggressive or loose passive. I don't think you can really afford to play tight in HU play. If you watch me play you'd see I never fold a single hand on the first level pre-flop either in small blind or to a min-raise because you always have at least 25% odds of winning pre-flop if you consider implied odds. Often you can re-raise the pot on the river with a straight or a flush, on the very first level, crippling them and basically sealing the victory, and all because you called their min-raise with 52o. I only play "tight aggressive" in these games when I have a big but vulnerable hand that needs to be aggressed, like AA, and you don't often get premiums so that play doesnt come about too often. I think if you play aggressive all the time you will get trapped, it's just a matter of time. Most of the time these aggressive players will call a pot re-raise because they think you're just getting aggravated at being raised and have nothing yourself. That's what happened the first time I got to level 4. I had J6, the flop came rags after he'd raised pot pre-flop. He bets pot again and I call it then re-raise all in on the turn, and he calls with Q6 and wins the game with Q high. So all you need to beat the aggressive players is often a weak pair or ace high.

[Dice Man]

Lost the $30 game. I was crushing him the whole game too but just had a dry spell of cards for the last 10 minutes and then the blinds turned it into a lottery.

***** Hand 523243345 *****
100.00/200.00 Texas Hold'em (PL) - 31 January 2007 14:38:50
Heads up $30 PL (Real /Tournament )
Seat 1: Hicdej23 (1900.00)
Seat 2: Dice Man (1100.00)
Dice Man post SB 100.00
Hicdej23 post BB 200.00
** Deal **
Hicdej23 [N/A, N/A]
Dice Man [Qd, 4c]
*** Bet Round 1 ***
Dice Man Raise to 600.00
Hicdej23 Raise to 1800.00
Dice Man All-in 1100.00
*** Flop(Board): *** : [10s, 4s, 9d]
*** Turn(Board): *** : [10s, 4s, 9d, 9c]
*** River(Board): *** : [10s, 4s, 9d, 9c, Ad]
*** Showdown *** : Rake: 0.00 Total Pot: 2200.00
Hicdej23 [As, Kc] Two pair aces and nines Win :2200.00
Dice Man [Qd, 4c] Highest card queen Win :0.00