Analysis of a hand
Yesterday I put in a late ngiht
session after getting
back from Vegas. I started off playing Ivey HU at 300/600 and did quite
well. I ended up about 100K from Ivey if I recall correctly. It
felt good to put in a win against him since my last three sessions had been losers against him. He always leaves after losing a big pot so once he dropped the 100 he left. I think this is a very good strategy for him and I admire his disipline to stick with it. I
don't think it would be best for me, so I
don't intent to implement it into my game, but it defenitly appears to work for him.
After playing Ivey I played some 100/200
plo on stars and played Gift of Gab at 150/300
deep table. I began to
tilt and dropped all my prevous winnings. I was not playing my best and should have quit sooner. I ended the night on this hand which I thought about all day.
KK vs. AA (link: http://www.pokerhand.org/?1029172)
After the hand I was very angry at myself since I had been tilting he was playing very passively. I stormed off to take a shower and go to bed being mad because I "knew" he had aces. So all day I thought about the hand and once I cooled off I realized my
push was closer than I thought. I intuitively knew that kings were extremely strong HU. Then I asked the question how
deep would I have to make folding kings correct. I went through all the math and realized you have to be exteremly
deep to
fold KK HU. I won't bore you with it but its not even
close at 300BB. I was shocked and realized the hand was just a
cooler.