HUSNGs Cont

So... its been just over a week since my last post and what have I achieved? Well, not much as I have been away sunning myself on the French coast for 5 days. However, a 4 hour drive on my own each way allows one to think about poker and dig up a few theories (or maybe I have just had one too many beers tonight?).

Although I have been away for most of the past week, I have managed to play about 5 HUSNGs in the past 2 days (not a lot I know). Although I am finding the level of play very poor, I am also finding that I am much more prone to tilt when playing HUSNGs. It seems that if I loose more than 2 HUSNGs in a row I have to quit my session and get some air before playing again. I am not really sure why this is as I am winning/loosing much smaller sums of money than I was playing 50NL cash, but I think that because a HU match is so much more personal, it tends to tilt me more when I get outplayed/sucked out on. I think that part of the problem is that I am playing a very small volume of HUSNGs at the moment, and so winning/loosing 2 or 3 in a row really makes a difference, but when I get some more time on my hands (haha like thats going to happen in the next month) and I am playing 10/20 a day, then I think that I will be less prone to tilt.


Have mostly been playing the Full Tilt $10 HUSNGs with a good winrate, but also add in a few $6 Poker Stars Turbos when I am in the mood and it still amazes me how bad some of the players are...... however one hand came up today which I was really not sure about:

PokerStars Game #19504559000: Tournament #101256960, $6.00+$0.25 Hold'em No Limit - Match Round I, Level I (10/20) - 2008/08/10 - 08:30:05 (ET)
Table '101256960 1' 2-max Seat #1 is the button
Seat 1: Poppy021184 (1420 in chips)
Seat 2: hero (1580 in chips)
Poppy021184: posts small blind 10
hero: posts big blind 20
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to hero [Td 5d]
Poppy021184: calls 10
hero: checks
*** FLOP *** [7d 5s 2d]
hero: bets 60
Poppy021184: raises 80 to 140
hero: raises 460 to 600
Poppy021184: calls 460
*** TURN *** [7d 5s 2d] [Ks]
hero: bets 960 and is all-in
Poppy021184: calls 800 and is all-in
Uncalled bet (160) returned to hero

My notes on the player are:

Plays around 70% of hands, raises about 20%. His raises tend to be minraises.
If he limps btn he calls a raise from the BB.
He likes to call down light and will call with draws.

Meh..... I am not sure how else to play this hand... I guess I could have been more passive on the flop and turn but FD + pair is a really strong hand and ahead of a lot of his range.... what do you think?

Got to get some sleep... but expect an update soon... maybe even with some sharkscope stats.