What's up. Had a good day so far, but I'm having a little bit of trouble one-tabling sometimes as my attention is starting to wonder against certain opponents. Still I find I'm paying more attention, and until I add another 6-buyins to my roll (which would have me high enough to play in the 30s), I'm going to keep one tabling.
Once I hit that, rather than make the jump in stakes I'm going to start two-tabling and I wanna put out 50-100 matches at my current stakes 2-tabling (unless I go on a losing streak of 5-6 buy-ins). If I can continue beating the game at a high enough ROI, I'll move up to the 30s, which have been hell for me so far.
I had a bit of a gift today though. My roll had dropped low, as I mentioned in other posts, and I was playing in the 10s. Recently I moved back up to $20 games and while today starting with me losing 3 out of my first 4 matches and my roll one-buyin above my 'drop-down-and-regrind' point, I got on a bit of a roll and ended the afternoon up 5-buy-ins. My last four wins all came against one villian, who was a winning player over a sample of about 1.5k games.
At first I treated this guy like he knew what he was doing, but he became the easiest opponent I've ever played against. Over the four matches we played 224 hands, and he never changed up his play. First he limped his weaker hands and min-raised with his stronger hands, and folded the crap. There was a bit of a grey area, where he was limping or raising with hands like Q9 or J8s and stuff, but for the most part it was pretty straight forward.
Now, no matter if he limped or min-raised pre, he'd put out a bet on the flop if I checked it to him, no matter the board. But if he didn't have top pair, he'd always bet half the pot. If he had top pair, he'd always bet pot. He'd also call a c/r here very light and fold to any c-bet I'd make on the turn.
He'd fold anything but top pair or a draw to multiple streets of betting (he loved chasing draws).
The first match was a bit of a feeling out, and once I got him figured out I pretty much ran him over, coming over the top of his weak bets and c-betting a ton, unless he showed me he had top pair. I also raised close to every hand pre-flop, because he'd fold a lot, or call and fold to a c-bet.
This was the only adjustment he made throughout our games though, when he started 3-betting pretty light eventually, even 3-bet shoving w/ over 30bb at one point. I could tell I had him annoyed, but he kept playing super straight forward once the flop hit. How this guy was a winning player I have no idea.
The funniest thing was though, every match he hit a point when he snapped, but when we started a new game, he'd start all over again and then eventually snap once again. And when he snapped, let me tell you he made some strange plays like calling down w/ A high on a really wet board, or once shoving over me when he was getting a bit short w/ second pair. He never showed any tendecies of aggressiveness, and when he finally did it was as a bluff, I thought this was really funny.
I'll admit I got lucky when playing him in the sense that he never sucked out on me though, over 4 matches and 200+ hands... but every time I got him all-in and I won, it was with the best hand. In our last match I actually caught him 3-bet shoving w/ almost 30bb w/ A6. He'd been going a bit nuts with the shoves, and I had A8. I figured he was doing it with JT+ and any pocket pair, and for the most part my hand was ahead. Turns out he was doing it with most aces too.
