First sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been a bit disinterested in poker the past week. Its shown in my play as I think I have played my C game this month. Its also shown in my results with a break even month. I have just lacked focus and not really wanted to play, so I have put in less hands this month than any of the prior six months.

I want to talk about a few HU sessions I played in the past week. One was against DIN_FRU. He was a very aggressive opponent who like to reraise preflop. In our first battle he crushed me, winning about 80k in a hundred hands.

Here I really hate my flop bet sizing. Hastings pointed this out to me and I agree completely.

http://weaktight.com/1142804

Losing a coinflip...

http://weaktight.com/1142805

Here he makes a very good call on me. I don't hate my bluff though.

http://weaktight.com/1142807

This hand tilted me so hard.

http://weaktight.com/1142810

So after the last hand he had to go eat dinner. We then played the following day, which was a much better result for me.

Here I get lucky and suck out on aces.

http://weaktight.com/1142814

Again I get a great flop, but put alot of money in preflop as an underdog.

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Here I get called down lightly.

http://weaktight.com/1142818

So in total I think I ended up about even against DIN_FRU. I think we will be playing more in the future.

Last night I played Patrik in the Friday night lights event for FullTilt. It was a very quick match since it was a 100BB freezeout. Here is the final hand where I get lucky.

http://weaktight.com/1142824

Tonight I play the FTP 25K HU tournament. I am actually looking forward to playing it and really focusing on my play. I think it will be a nice break from my normal cash games.

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I had a nice rebound today winning 50k. It felt great after that terrible day yesterday. I think it just goes to show how big the swings are in PLO. The swings in HU PLO are even greater. I would say that 20BI swings in HU PLO are very common particular if one player begins to tilt.

Too much money in preflop to consider folding.

http://weaktight.com/1096753

I am not big on hero calls, but this one just had to be made.

http://weaktight.com/1096756

Here is one I lost. Calling seems a bit weak with so many draws out.

http://weaktight.com/1097028

Hopefully these games keep running.

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I just had a brutal day in PLO. I played 2400 hands and lost 110k. I think I played well but after a certain point you sometimes don't know. Its really frustrating when you feel you play well and just get crushed. I know this is PLO and I have had days similar in the past and always bounce back. It just shows the insane variance that I could run at -62bb/100 over this sample and be up around 9 bb/100 on the year.

I think one thing I have really improved is my game slection this year. I have been really diligent about not playing in terrible games. I still play in some games that aren't amazing. Today there were some amazing games, against some people I consider to not be great. I found one thing I do to improve my game is to verbalize what mistakes my opponents are making. So while playing I would say, things like "my edge in this game is from my opponent who doesn't three bet much" or "My opponent only barrels the flop but gives up to much if called." I find this is a really good strategy for identifying your edge in games. I think its particually helpful in HU games.

As for my month I am up about 15k because of some nice wins at 200/400 and 100/200. I hope I can bounce back, but tonight was really brutal. I am looking forward to tomorrow and putting in alot of hands.

Here is the final hand I played and I quit. This was by far the worse hand I played on the day and beyond this I think all my plays were defensible/good. This was just a spew preflop where I should have folded, but I think I was a bit tilted and I insta quit after this.

http://weaktight.com/1093911

Some days poker just doesn't go your way....

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