Back from Summer School

I got back from London yesturday and I must admit that I am quite happy to get away for a bit, the course was very intense but also quite boring plus we had a terrible lecturer. But anyway enough of that, I recently had a pretty big downswing playing hu and 6max while I was at summer school which included losing 11 buyins straight HU and then another few in 6max. The result was that I took a few days off and I played my first session today for around 5 days, I still had some pretty sick beats but I actually ended up 4 buyins despite losing 5 to a guy HU who I out played but he kept sucking out on me (as he did before!), hopefully he will keep coming back to play me so I get a chance for luck to even out a bit. I certainly made some bad decisions and tilted slightly but I also played quite well and I was good to get a winning session under my belt.

Hand time: I played 6 tables today, 4 6max and 2 HU against the same guy.

First HU table:

Standard.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362782

An early sign that he gives my 3bets no respect.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362790

For some reason every time I had KK an A flopped today.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362799

First big hand of the match, this is a pretty standard situation IMO. I didnt get 3bet so a higher pair is unlikely and we basically have a 6/J or nothing situation.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362807

Really standard.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362817

I think that I should have two barrelled here, not just because of what he had but I do have a gutshot and hopefully one or even 2 overs plus its likely that he could be floating me.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362821

Standard but I suckout here!!! But 52s wtf?
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362830

This hand happened 1 hand after the previous one, I guess it makes up for my suckout.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362839

This river card confuses things a bit, I only have a PSB left and I don't know if I can bet for value. I think checking then calling a shove is spew so I can either shove, make a small bet then fold to a shove, or check/fold. I took the later option and I think its ok.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362849

I was quite pleased with this fold, I think he hits the backdoor flush, the 5 or the 9 a lot here.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362868

SPEW TIME! I like the move since he had been 3betting me a lot and I think he could easily be double barrelling but also I feel he has to fold his medium pairs and mostly when he calls I have atleast 1 if not 2 overs. Its a pity that he had the 2nd nuts. Drawing dead rocks.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362876


Second HU table:

Standard against short stacks.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362892

This river call is slightly questionable but given the previous hand and the fact he could be doing it with worse two pairs or a retarded AK I dont mind it.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362899
This guy had pushed allin before and he didn't seem very solid in general, the fact he hadn't left when he won the previous hand told me he would probably stick around even if I lost so I think A9s is a solid hand to gamble with even though its at the bottom of my calling range there.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362901

----Guy at other table sits down----

Move doesn't work, in retrospect I don't know if I like the turn bet since he could easily have the 7.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362917

Pretty standard but his shove stuck out in my mind a bit because it didnt make much sense, perhaps I should have called here.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362921

Value town.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362929

Suck town.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362932

Cooler town.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362942

This hand is one of those hands where you either look like a genius or an idiot. I was the idiot this time. On the turn I can see him betting some legitimate hands but also bluffs - hence my call, but on the river I don't think he bets a Queen and he might not even bet weak aces since the 8 means that he is can't get much value. So it was a nuts or nothing hand again and I ran into the nuts.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362946

I made a pretty big mistake here, the hand is fine until the river but my opponent just isn't capable of such an elaborate bluff. I think this is a prime example of tilt. I need to work on that.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362957

This was the icing on the cake really. The flop float is pretty strange and the 77 hand comes back to mind so I made what turned out to be a good call but again he hit his card.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1362968

I quit playing HU after that hand and just kept to 6max, which I was owning. :)
Those HH don't really show exactly how badly I was running but basically I wasn't hitting any flops when I called or 3bet and obviously I had some coolers and some suckouts. I'm a bit too tired to go through the 6max hands so I'm afraid you only get to see the HU stuff.

On a final happy note I played at some of the same tables are TillerMan! Those of you who have a gaming background will know of him but he is basically a gaming god turned poker god. He is a professional who hade made over a million £ from poker so it was cool to play with him, we didn't tangle though.