Final Table and heads-up

Bigshot texted me late last night with news of reaching another final table. In another Stars $4+0.40 180 man tourney. Pretty solid form from him. He ended up taking 3rd spot and a $86 pot. I believe 1st would take a $216 pot so pretty close to a reasonable score.

I plumped for a 9 man SNG on Stars last night and with no cards pretty much used selective aggression and lots of folding to get myself a third place slot and earn $4 profit. I then decided to try a little low limit heads-up. My first game I started super aggressive taking down about six pots with raises. I re-raised his opening raise with AA and was put all-in. Nice. He shows JJ so an understandable push from him. It wasn't quite so good when he hits a Jack on the river. I staged a brave comeback with a very short stack, playing very aggressively but with a short stack I lost with middle pair against a slow played top pair.

The second game I played the guy limped pre-flop always. Folded out of position almost always and let me take down most pots pre-flop. He would play back only occasionally and I though I would take down the small pots and be on a free-roll when he did play back. I hit middle pair on a flop and call his min-raise hoping to catch trips or two pair but fully expecting to be behind when I do. I get a flush draw on the turn adding to my outs and am priced in to make a call. When the flush hits I bet slightly over pot to look like a bluff and get called. My K flush loses to his A flush (he had AA). Outplayed on that one I guess.

On the third game I fully expect to make amends getting it all in with pocket fours which give me a full house on the turn and he had trips. He hits an Ace to give him a better full house and I drop a third buy-in. What a terrible heads-up record I now hold. Played 4. Won 1.