I'm not sure if you pwned this player...I mean you won but it was very straight up. You did show the one bluff which as I read I thought "I hope he shows". Other than that there wasn't much action. A short stack should push Ax heads up - he just ran into a higher Ace. Congrats regardless.

The one thing I did like was you were next to impossible to get any extra $$ out of. The str8 draw is a good example. Most people would call down to the river with that hand HU and like you mention, you may not get paid off when you get there.

Out of curiosity, how much rake did this session cost? Rake in HU cash games at low levels is a BB/hr killer. Then again the number of poor players you profit from can make up for it.

If you like HU then try some HU SNGs. The rising blinds make it interesting and the rake is relatively lower.