May thy head always be up

Hello everyone and welcome to “May thy head always be up”! The main function of this series of posts is to provide an insight to a recreational NL100 6-max regulars 1-month journey into a world where no one ever has anything and where no one respects no one! That is the world of no limit heads up, or HUHU! My name is Morto, and I will be your host for the month! Before going too far, let’s give our hero a chance to introduce himself!

Well, actually our hero is our host, so let me give you a brief summary of my poker career. I started playing poker about 3 years ago with a decent no-deposit bonus of 5$. I think I played full ring fixed limit somewhere in the early days, but moved to short handed no limit pretty fast. The no deposit bonus was all I needed, and now I’m playing NL100 6-max pretty regularly and doint fine in it. I have a job outside of poker, and am not looking for a profession here. Though I am planning to continue studying later this year, and it would be great to be able to live on poker during that.

Well, that’s about the past, let’s now take a look at the future! I have challenged myself to play almost exclusively heads up for this month. As I am not in any way dependant on poker income, my only and holy goal is to get better in heads up poker. I will play matches against players better than me (I might lose!) if I think I can gain some knowledge or experience from them to get me closer to my goal. Of course I won’t turn down players worse than me either. :) My plan is to play NL100 for the whole month.

Our first post is starting to gain lenght, so I will end it right here! Will think about answering any questions, so comments loose! Would also love to hear everyones thoughts about good ways to learn heads up (more on that in next post, I think!). I’ll end my introduction in an example hand I played some time ago that made me like heads up even more. After the villain called, I was pretty sure I’m somewhat behind. Was a strange moment when the client showed my equity. :)

IPoker Network $50.00 No Limit Hold’em – 2 players
The Official DeucesCracked.com Hand History Converter

BTN/SB: $168.10
Hero (BB): $56.50

Pre Flop: ($0.75) Hero is BB with Q J
BTN/SB raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $5, BTN/SB calls $3.50

Flop: ($10.00) 2 5 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets $6.00, Hero calls $6

Turn: ($22.00) 8 (2 players)
Hero checks, BTN/SB bets $13.00, Hero raises to $45.50, BTN/SB calls $32.50

River: ($113.00) 3 (2 players)

Final Pot: $113.00
BTN/SB shows Q T
Hero wins $112.00
(Rake: $1.00)