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Interesting Post

Have you changed your style of play after playing this challenge so far?

Please keep us posted on your results.

Good Luck
 
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Interesting Post

Have you changed your style of play after playing this challenge so far?

Please keep us posted on your results.

Good Luck

Holy shit, Roller! That's like the only post I've ever seen you make without using those god damn emoticons! lmao :thrasher:
 
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in my opinion heads up is all about pre flop betting. After that it's all about who hits thier card.
 
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Hey Jordanbillie i am going to do this challenge with you. I will play 100 sng hu matches and keep progress. each day and post in the forum. well today i played 8 sng hu. Won 6 and loss 2. I played a mix of nl holdem and plo. with 2 different buy ins from 3.20 & 2.20. From now on i will only play PLO at 2.20 on stars. So my profit for today is $10.40.
 
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Interesting Post

Have you changed your style of play after playing this challenge so far?

Please keep us posted on your results.

Good Luck

My style has definitely changed. I feel I am doing much better at reading the hands and when it is a good time for a bluff/steal/c bet, etc.

in my opinion heads up is all about pre flop betting. After that it's all about who hits thier card.

Not true at all.

Hey Jordanbillie i am going to do this challenge with you. I will play 100 sng hu matches and keep progress. each day and post in the forum. well today i played 8 sng hu. Won 6 and loss 2. I played a mix of nl holdem and plo. with 2 different buy ins from 3.20 & 2.20. From now on i will only play PLO at 2.20 on stars. So my profit for today is $10.40.

AWESOME! I was hoping somebody would come for the ride with me. I hope we run into each other on stars, my name is jordanbillie of course. Keep us posted.
 
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AWESOME! I was hoping somebody would come for the ride with me. I hope we run into each other on stars, my name is jordanbillie of course. Keep us posted.

We should be able to run into each other my name is aesopdurasic. look for me
 
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Ok i only play a total of 5 HU sng yesterday. Won 3 loss 2 for a profit of $1.00. Total games played 13. won 9 lost 4 total profit $11.40
 
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hmmm my uncle should be tryin this he won seat to heads up canadian championship in calgary next week would be good practice for him.
 
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some players already commited to it are hellmuth,esfandieri,hachem,booth,seed,negraneau,and gavin smith and quite a few more pros.should be interesting hope he doesn't draw one of them off the bat lol.
 
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some players already commited to it are hellmuth,esfandieri,hachem,booth,seed,negraneau,and gavin smith and quite a few more pros.should be interesting hope he doesn't draw one of them off the bat lol.

what??? that was probably the most incoherent and/or unrelated post i've ever seen
 
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Best of luck you guys, hope you come out on top with a nice profit to make it worth while!
 
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Today was short, not much to say.

Today
0 wins - 2 losses
Profit: (-$4.40)

Total (38 matches)
23 wins - 15 losses
Profit: $8.40
 
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Stopped today after 50 matches, so I am half way done with my challenge.

I am tempted to just stop now, because it is really kinda boring just playing HU sngs. The whole purpose of this challenge was to test the profitability of HU sngs and so far: Yes they are profitable, but man they sure are boring.

I have ran into all different types of opponents through my first 50. These opponents ranged from micro stake grinders to donks like this:

Seat 1: Edelweiß 65 (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: jordanbillie (1680 in chips)
jordanbillie: posts small blind 5
Edelweiß 65: posts big blind 10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jordanbillie [8c Qc 7d Kh]
jordanbillie: raises 20 to 30
Edelweiß 65: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [2c Ac Jc]
Edelweiß 65: checks
jordanbillie: bets 60
Edelweiß 65: calls 60
*** TURN *** [2c Ac Jc] [5c]
Edelweiß 65: bets 180
jordanbillie: raises 540 to 720
Edelweiß 65: raises 510 to 1230 and is all-in
jordanbillie: calls 510
*** RIVER *** [2c Ac Jc 5c] [Kd]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Edelweiß 65: shows [2h Qd Th Kc] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
jordanbillie: shows [8c Qc 7d Kh] (a flush, Ace high)

My opponent thought he had the King high flush with his Kc in his hand. (seriously, he typed it in the chat).

I have had 1 or 2 handed matches and I have also had 45 minute to 1 hour tight as trying to get shucked corn into a thin plastic bag matches.

I have really developed a solid PLO HU game that has adapted throught my first 50 and also within the matches themselves. Here are my stats:

Today
8 wins - 4 losses
Profit: $5.60

Total (50 matches)
31 wins - 19 losses
Total Profit: $14.00 even

So I am on pace for 62 wins - 38 losses and a $28 profit over 100 matches.
I want to do better than that. I want to be at 70 and 30 by the end, so I have to go 39 and 11 in the 2nd half.
 
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thanks for explainin that jordanbillie.hope ur quest turns out aighht for ya.saw you on cake other day good to see some1 else on here from old forum.
 
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Well done so far. Clearly these games are beatable at a reasonable rate. Keep it up! Omaha is all yours. Holdem is mine :)
 
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Still making a profit.
Nice.

Goal 70/30.
Play it strong and make it happen.

Play the Situation as much as you can.

Good luck
 
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lemme know when you finish and we can play the 5khands.

did you wanna do 50nl or 100nl?
 
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Hey jordanbillie. I am going to take a week off. feeling like poker is more frustrating right now than fun. so am going to take a break. in the last 2 day only played 3 HU sng and won all 3 for a protfit of $5.40.
Total games played 16
Won 12
Lost 4
Profit $16.80
 
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Moderate day today. Played 5 matches.

Today
3 wins - 2 losses
Profit: $1.00

Total (55 matches)
34 wins - 21 losses
Profit: $15.00
 
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Today i was really on top of my husng game. I got my money in ahead and it held up most of the time. I won 8/9 games today (lost a $5 and won one $10 and 7 $5s). So far im at 32 games, 23 wins, 9 losses. All $5 except 2 which were $10 (both of which I won).
 
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Last couple of days have been great!

May 9th played 1 match and won. +$1.80
May 10th played 1 match and won. +1.80

Got home from work this morning at 5am and decided to play a match while eating a snack. I waited for 5 min in a $2 hu match and nobody came, but a guy was registered for a $5 match waiting for an opponent. I decided to play at the $5 table. I won the first match rather easily and was trying to type in the chat "gg" and when I hit enter it accepted the rematch for the game. I was forced to play him again. The 2nd match took 55 minutes to play! I was all the way down to 235 chips and kept battling to almost even and then I would get knocked down again. I ended up winning the match in the end so over the last 3 days...

4 wins - 0 losses
Profit: $13.10

Total (59 matches)
38 wins - 21 losses
Profit: $28.10
 
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Glad youre doing this. I too like HU but have not been much better than 50%. Good to see someone grinding money at this. Goodluck
 
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I just finished my 100 games. Did decently but I think I could have done better. Major addition to my bankroll though so im happy.
 
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great progress!!! Seems like you got omaha figured out! lol crushing it!!
 
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