Jacki Burkhart
long winded rambler...
Silver Level
well...if the thread title enticed you in here, you will probably be disappointed. This is just about a heads up poker hand between 2 girls.
This is a live $20 turbo rebuy tourney that occurs after the main tourney in a local live card room. As such it is full of moderately bad players who have busted out and the structure is terrible. We had about 90 entries including rebuys and 6 were paid. I'd like to note that of the 90 something entries only about 10 were girls, and when we made it down to the final 4 players 3 of us were girls! Shout out to the ladies....anyways I digress....
Now, we've knocked out all the boys and it's just me and Ana heads up. She is a very strong and very very hyper aggressive player, in fact that is probably her biggest weakness is being overly aggressive.
Our stacks are shallow she has me covered with about 20bbs and I have about 18 bbs.
She proposes a chip chop but I say "I'd really like to practice my heads up game" and she says "great! me too" and as the dealer is getting ready to deal our first hand we are chatting about how we've both been practicing our heads up game. No specifics, just that fact that we've both been studying it lately.
OK, first hand I am in the BB and she is the SB/Dealer.
She min raises her button and I look down at
That is plenty playable vs her min raise range and I flat. I think folding is too weak, and 3betting is tough because she is so likely to 4bet jam and I'll have to fold an otherwise playable hand.
Flop comes
sweet! I plan to check raise all in with my 2nd pair. I can count on her to Cbet almost any flop if I check to her.
to my surprise she jams for (effectively) 16 bb into a 4bb pot. I go in the tank. I'm seriously considering folding when she says "If you really want to work on your heads up game you should fold so we can play more than 1 hand".
It is that comment that convinces me she does not have a jack or an overpair. She could definitely have bottom pair, a small pocket pair, 2 overs or a draw, and if she has a combo draw like a flush draw with a gut shot I'm probably a slight dog.
What to do?
This is a live $20 turbo rebuy tourney that occurs after the main tourney in a local live card room. As such it is full of moderately bad players who have busted out and the structure is terrible. We had about 90 entries including rebuys and 6 were paid. I'd like to note that of the 90 something entries only about 10 were girls, and when we made it down to the final 4 players 3 of us were girls! Shout out to the ladies....anyways I digress....
Now, we've knocked out all the boys and it's just me and Ana heads up. She is a very strong and very very hyper aggressive player, in fact that is probably her biggest weakness is being overly aggressive.
Our stacks are shallow she has me covered with about 20bbs and I have about 18 bbs.
She proposes a chip chop but I say "I'd really like to practice my heads up game" and she says "great! me too" and as the dealer is getting ready to deal our first hand we are chatting about how we've both been practicing our heads up game. No specifics, just that fact that we've both been studying it lately.
OK, first hand I am in the BB and she is the SB/Dealer.
She min raises her button and I look down at
That is plenty playable vs her min raise range and I flat. I think folding is too weak, and 3betting is tough because she is so likely to 4bet jam and I'll have to fold an otherwise playable hand.Flop comes
sweet! I plan to check raise all in with my 2nd pair. I can count on her to Cbet almost any flop if I check to her.
to my surprise she jams for (effectively) 16 bb into a 4bb pot. I go in the tank. I'm seriously considering folding when she says "If you really want to work on your heads up game you should fold so we can play more than 1 hand".
It is that comment that convinces me she does not have a jack or an overpair. She could definitely have bottom pair, a small pocket pair, 2 overs or a draw, and if she has a combo draw like a flush draw with a gut shot I'm probably a slight dog.
What to do?
