Today I had a great time on the heads-up tables again. I’m getting more and more used to the concept and I enjoy it very much. Moreover, it’s starting to become very profitable: today I played a serie of 12 encounters (6$ turbo sit ‘n go on FTP, blind levels increase every three minutes) of which I won 11! Hurray !

I have to admit, sometimes it just demands a little attention to beat your opponent extremely fast. That’s why it’s sometimes brilliant to wake up with a solid first hand. If you make a statement with it immediately, your opponent’s pride and his wish of not being perceived somehow as a tight passive player from the beginning, gives you the opportunity of dragging him into a first big pot. Sometimes that means all the chips on the table^^. Let’s have a look:

So on the flop on turn (s)he probably thinks (let’s suppose the poor fellow is thinking in any way) I missed my high cards. While that’s true, (s)he makes a retarded reraise and bet so I can chase my hand. But if the ace drops down, which MAYBE could have helped me (s)he decides it’s a good time for an all-in hehe. Few moments later against another opponent:

So I make another standard button-raise with KQ. His/her bet on the flop isn’t that bad. But when I make a decent reraise (committing one third of my stack) (s)he still isn’t convinced I have something. And when he catched a gutshot on the turn there was no way of stopping him/her anymore.
So, making profit can be easy when meeting people who can’t give up their hand. When you try playing some heads-up yourself, you could listen to some of the following 25 tracks from the list:

150 Pink Floyd - On the turning away (1987, A Momentary Lapse of Reason)
149 Queen - Love of my life (1975, A Night at the Opera)
148 Johnny Cash - Get Rhythm (1956, single)
147 Bruce Springsteen - Thunder Road (1975, Born to Run)
146 White Stripes - Little Cream Soda (2007, Icky Thumb)
145 Beach Boys - I’m Waiting For the Day (1966, Pet Sounds)
144 The Velvet Underground - Heroin (1967, The Velvet Underground & Nico)
143 Golden Earring - Radar Love (1973, Moontan)
142 Led Zeppelin - When the Levee Breaks (1971, Led Zeppelin IV)
141 Kraftwerk - Radio-Activity (1975, Radio-Activity)
140 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Born on the Bayou (1969, Bayou Country)
139 Beck - Hotwax (1996, Odelay)
138 Absynth Minded - In her head (2004, Acquired Taste)
137 Jimi Hendrix Experience - Foxy Lady (1967, Are You Experienced)
136 Smashing Pumpkins - Porcelina Of the Vast Oceans (1995, Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness)
135 Eels - My Decent Into Madness (1998, Electro-Shock Blues)
134 Foals - Two Steps, Twice (2008, Antidotes)
133 A Perfect Circle - Thinking of You (2000, Mer de Noms)
132 Rolling Stones - You Can’t Always Get What You Want (1969, Let it Bleed)
131 Zombies - Brief Candles (1967, Odessey and Oracle)
130 White Stripes - Little Acorns (2003, Elephant)
129 Doors - LA Woman (1971, LA Woman)
128 Nirvana - On a Plain (1991, Nevermind)
127 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Ramble Tamble (1970, Cosmo’s Factory)
126 Pixies - Here Comes Your Man (1989, Doolittle)

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