HU Good... 6 Max Bad

I left London this afternoon along with my sister who had come down to visit me for a couple of days so for the next couple of weeks I can only play up to 4 tables on my laptop. This is both a good and a bad thing for me I think. The good is that I can concentrate more on each table and really try to work on my game at a fundamental level, the bad is that I won't have the option to just autopilot 8 tables and try to play solid poker. I think it is a lot easier to tilt and/or get out of line when you are just playing a few tables and since that is one of my biggest problems at the moment I will have to be careful.

Anyway I played 4 tables for about an hour; 1 HU and 3 6max and then I just played abc tag on 1 table for another 20mins since I had position on a guy with 70% vpip. Unfortuntely I got completely crushed in the 6max games but I felt I played really well HU. Somehow I'm actually down around $95 though which is very annoying considering I was up around $300-$400 before I got owned on the "soft" table for the last 20 mins. Anyway here are some hands...

HU Match
My opponent was very aggressive PF and 3bet from the blinds a lot but had obvious leaks post flop.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830601
A loose call, he had 3bet me twice in the first 6 hands of the match so I wanted to make a stand and obviously called with the intention of making moves on a lot of flops.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830607
I didn't really give him much credit for a hand here unless it was QJ or KT, I had won the last 5 pots in a row from either raising his blind or him folding his button so I thought he felt like it was a good time to C/R. Plus I had a gutshot and a backdoor FD. :D

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830615
2nd time I called his 3bet, I think I am slightly ahead of his very wide 3betting range plus QT plays quite well in position and I don't want to risk getting blown off my hand by 4betting. I hit a pair and would have played for stacks.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830634 Pretty standard all around really.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830638
Gotta love the turn card. The guy said that he folded AQ but I kinda doubt it.

HH didn't go into pokerhand...
Seat 1: scelus ($509.40 in chips)
Seat 2: VonTibia2 ($313.98 in chips)
scelus: posts small blind $1
VonTibia2: posts big blind $2
dealt to scelus [Td Ah]
scelus: raises to $6
VonTibia2: raises to $22
scelus: raises to $66
VonTibia2: folds

First 4bet "bluff" of the night. ATo is ahead of his range but I dont really want to call because it plays pretty shity PF as it has no draws and the pair can often be dominated. Plus I had only been calling 3bets up until now so mixing things up and 4betting a bit light now is a good idea.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830660
Another 4bet bluff a few hands later. This guy played horribly post flop so I could get away with it.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830669
Hand caught in the cookie jar. But valuable information was gained ie LOLWTF 85s.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830677
Obviously then I tightened up until I had a good hand to 4bet with.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830681
Didn't make a move here because I felt my opponent was getting a little tilted plus K high could easily be good.

Another one PH.org didnt't like...
Seat 1: scelus ($664.40 in chips)
Seat 2: VonTibia2 ($216.20 in chips)
scelus: posts small blind $1
VonTibia2: posts big blind $2
dealt to scelus [Qh 7h]
scelus: raises to $6
VonTibia2: raises to $22
scelus: raises to $66
VonTibia2: folds

After giving up on the last reraised pot when I called and then subsequently folding to his next two 3bets I felt that it was a good time for another 4bet.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830701
A few hands later... Note this guy was letting me get away with this so there was no reason to stop. A strong player would have adapted by tightening up his 3betting range and opening up his 5betting range but this guy was pretty awful.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830710
When he finally adapts... I have a monster. Pretty harsh but pretty funny.

6max games
I did pretty crappy here. My losses are due to playing a little too loose I think - probably a side effect of playing lagtarded in my HU game, but I also played some hands well and just got unlucky.

Big loss hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830726
This guy was a solid slightly loose aggressive player who had been 3betting me a fair bit from the button so PF and flop play are fine imo. The turn is tough because it is the absolute perfect card to semi bluff, however after calling a checkraise on such an unco-ordinated board my opponent atleast has a pair. So if he has a range of random 8's, 99-AA and the odd Q then the push very much depends on if he folds JJ-99 and his 8's. Since this is the first big hand we have played so he is more likely to give me credit and I think this play is just +EV.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830761
Hand against loose passive guy with 70%vpip, pretty standard.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830764
TPTK against half stack. Standard.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830769
I think all the play is fine until the river, the ace is a horrible card to bluff because he is much less likely to fold a Q or J.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830772
Standard, against some players I would call or bluff the river but not this guy.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830773
Obviously this is a bad flop to cbet but it was the first time I had 3bet this guy and my hand has no showdown value so I think I have to bet.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830780
Standard against a guy with 70%vpip.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830785
The call is just about justified I think against a loose short stack who just lost a decent sized pot.

Big win hands:

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830790
Std.

http://www.pokerhand.org/?1830793
Std again.

Thats all I have the time for I'm afraid. After looking back on the big losing hands I don't think I really made any really bad mistakes but perhaps just too many small & medium ones. In some places I was a bit unlucky but that was probably made up for in my HU game. Still it feels terrible to be down after playing so well HU and winning 4 buyins. Ach well, I'll do better next time.