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Sep
19
2008
HU SNGs
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HU SNGs are like drugs. They're seriously no skill, pure monkey shovefests where it's constant gambling and swings within even every hand. It's a race, it's 60/40, it's a 70/30, I get coolered, single digit big blinds, yawn, cry, laugh. The caveat is that the regulars, and even guys that will multi table you, are absolutely atrocious. These guys wouldn't know NLHE if it hit them in the face with a ****en brick.

Tonight I ended up just laying low and hitting up PF Chang's with the woman. Scrumptious noodles and lettuce wraps and fun. At night I pulled up some random tables to play hu. I sat at my usual selection of tables, but no dice. I literally forgot that I had them up and surfed the internet for 2+ hours without a single person so much as sniffing my tables. All these chumps and their game selection!

So for some reason I played like 30 5k HU SNGs last night, got down like 30k but broke even. Ran really bad overall, just kept getting coolered and losing the standard stuff. I finally went to bed way too late and slept through my first class.

Fast forward to tonight, with no games running, I hit up the same random donks playing the 5ks, and I just can't stop myself from sitting. I'm marginal at best with 15-20 bbs, and average with 30 bbs, but these guys are sooo bad at all stack sizes it's absolutely unreal. I wish they weren't such a crapshoot, but even if my edge is only a few hundred bucks and I get a bunch of FPPs and VPPs (directly related to the ass-rape I pay for rape), they're fun enough since I can't get a soul in the world to play me at HU NL. I even IM'd like half my buddy list and got bricked.

I got stuck like 60k tonight right away, it was super gay, I just couldn't believe my eyes. I was down like 50-million chips in all in equity, I had to be. Everything that could go wrong did. I was so gayed out I thought I was going to bust my Stars account... but frankly, that would be hard. I ended up running decent in flips and stuff and getting to -20k. The last one I was down to like 600 chips, got up to 2600-400, lost something stupid or insignificant like J6 to K2, lost something else, lost AT to 22 or something, and I don't remember- it was just a stupid roller coaster that I came out on the bad end of. I think twice in the last two days I've had guys down to 100 chips and lost, that's a little tilting.

Still, with all the variance associated with these things, it's kind of stupid to be too cocky. I'd still like to know how bad I ran- anyone know if HEM or anywhere else can get my HHs and find out what my EV is? Would be nice to know so I can sleep better in the near future.

These HU SNG guys are super clowny, just talking **** to me like they don't know who I am. It's pretty annoying, but I stopped paying attention to it. One guy said he'd pay me 5k to play 100 of them- so we started last night and played 28. Then after this clown started to ask me for advice (lol), I just turned chat off altogether so I didn't get too tilted. Finally, I put it back on like 20 minutes later to ask him what number we're on, and this guy is talking to himself. It was awesome- he says something about how good I run, then he says he 'just stumbled across my blog' (translation: I read your blog daily, I worship your nuts, I'm happy just to be across the table from you) and something about me being a tool. Jesus I was cracking up. Unfortunately, he 'forgot what number we were on' (translation: you were never getting your money, you whore), so I'm sure he won't pay me the 5k, if he would happen to have it after we finished.

Anyhow, it's super ridiculously late, I need to sleep so I can play ball tomorrow, pick up my boy from the airport, and finish sealing up the Memoirs series to be released this weekend or the beginning of next week (thanks to everyone for inquiring, it looks like the wait is just about over). Hopefully I'll get to see Burn After Reading or whatever that movie is with Brad Pitt. The White Sox suck terribly right now, which is pretty depressing considering how terrible the Twins are and how badly they're trying to hand us the Division. Also, I'm going to be on the 2+2 Pokercast next week. I'll make sure I link you lazy ass mother ****ers when it's up.

Be Good.

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09-19-2008
whupthattrick is offline whupthattrick
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Do you really think HUSNGs are devoid of skill? Does Stars not offer the 'no blind increase' structure for the higher limits? I multitable these at the $50 and $100 levels and there are a lot of regulars there who have a pretty significant edge. You're basically playing an unchanging 50 BB HU match, BUT your opponent can't leave you and you're guaranteed his buy-in. I don't know why anyone plays the turbos given the choice.
09-19-2008
gambler2k4 is offline gambler2k4
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