[m_farrar84]

good luck and keep us posted

[Quads]

Of course the best hand is saved for last.

While the action was moving through the night, we exchanged some decent sized pots here and there, and mixed each of the games in a few times around. Mostly PLO and NLHE. We did agree to add O8B, playing limit $50/100 and agreed that two scoops would make it a kill pot and play at $100/200. Reason behind this was that after an hour of playing there was pretty much no chip movement.

Without editing the footage, the last hand came as such:

Preflop, I raise to $400, Scooter calls. (Scooter is the name of the guy I'm playing this heads up game with)

Board flopped J/Q/7 I have top pair with nut kicker and the chance to pick up a backdoor flush with diamonds. We both fired at the pot with somewhat pot sized bets / calls.

Turn brought a 6, off suit killing my backdoor flush draw, but I'm pretty confident with my TPTK. I opened for $1,500 on the turn, which was about 1/2 pot and Scooter made it $6600. I called.

River was a brick 2.

I bet 10,000 on the river and Scooter was in the tank for some time before calling me.

I thought initially that we were sharing the Q and I notched him with the Ace and didn't get the idea that he two paired or set up on the flop.

So, top pair, nut kicker was called by K/K.

Put a pretty heavy hit in my stack, so needless to say, it's back to basics for me in the next session. I have some work to do-

Chip Stacks currently:
Quads: $13,025
Scooter: $46,975

Up until this last hand, we were right on target for what we were thing with 30 or 4 hours, but after this last hand, I may be way off base. Generally speaking the pots are about what we expected and the game is moving at the pace in which we expected. (of course up until the last hand of the night)

[jdunford]

Ouch. That last one hurt. But you definitely have enough (22%) to grind your way back into it.

Sounds like you had a good time. Good luck in the next session.

[HENDU3270]

Originally Posted by Quads

Of course the best hand is saved for last.

While the action was moving through the night, we exchanged some decent sized pots here and there, and mixed each of the games in a few times around. Mostly PLO and NLHE. We did agree to add O8B, playing limit $50/100 and agreed that two scoops would make it a kill pot and play at $100/200. Reason behind this was that after an hour of playing there was pretty much no chip movement.

Without editing the footage, the last hand came as such:

Preflop, I raise to $400, Scooter calls. (Scooter is the name of the guy I'm playing this heads up game with)

Board flopped J/Q/7 I have top pair with nut kicker and the chance to pick up a backdoor flush with diamonds. We both fired at the pot with somewhat pot sized bets / calls.

Turn brought a 6, off suit killing my backdoor flush draw, but I'm pretty confident with my TPTK. I opened for $1,500 on the turn, which was about 1/2 pot and Scooter made it $6600. I called.

River was a brick 2.

I bet 10,000 on the river and Scooter was in the tank for some time before calling me.

I thought initially that we were sharing the Q and I notched him with the Ace and didn't get the idea that he two paired or set up on the flop.

So, top pair, nut kicker was called by K/K.

Put a pretty heavy hit in my stack, so needless to say, it's back to basics for me in the next session. I have some work to do-

Chip Stacks currently:
Quads: $13,025
Scooter: $46,975

Up until this last hand, we were right on target for what we were thing with 30 or 4 hours, but after this last hand, I may be way off base. Generally speaking the pots are about what we expected and the game is moving at the pace in which we expected. (of course up until the last hand of the night)

That's a tough one. If it was me playing I would have most likely lost the match on that hand. No way to put him on an over pair pre-flop since he just calls, and his $6600 bet could very well be taken as him holding top pair as well, at least by me. I may have moved all in after that bet to try to push him off the hand, and ofcourse that would have been that.

Sounds like you have your work cut out for you in the next match. All it takes is one hand like the last in your favor and it's evened up again.

[clbg571]

so, if/when the winner plays in a tourney, will he be wearing a chiptalk or scott keen's hat?

[Quads]

Today I got to catch up with Scooter who made some corrections to the numbers in our betting. (I was dead ass tired, didn't clearly remember the number, but had the basic action down), so as an edit, here is how the hand played out with better detail:

From Scooter:
<CUT>
We announced that we would play two final hands before ending the night. At this point I was on major tilt from folding the best hand several times, and also Quads rivering a 2-outer, tripping up his bottom pair (IE he showed down 3/8 offsuit for a rivered trip 3s.)

So, on to the final two hands. I folded the first one preflop. The last one, I look down to see KK. Quads raises to $400 with $25/50 blinds. I repop it to $1100, which was the biggest preflop raise of the night. He calls.

Flop comes QJ7. He leads out for $2200 (IE quack quack X-22 Paul Magriel style). I raise to $6600 (triple quack!). Quads calls with AQ for TPTK.

Turn comes a blank, but I check, figuring he might have QJ or JJ to have called such a huge raise on the flop, especially relative to our chip stacks and considering the amount of money involved. He checks behind me.

River comes another blank, and I check again, with still only one pair (after taking 5+ minutes in the tank). Quads bets $10,000 on the river, which I call considering the $15,000 already in the pot.
</PASTE>

So, basically the same result, but he got the numbers correct.

Looking back on it, I really didn't put him on an over pair, and didn't figure him for KK or AA, or setting up with the Q/J on the board. Obviously, knowing what he had, the correct play was to fold when he repopped it for $6600. Bad play? Perhaps. Heads up, TPTK, I was defending my hand. Something to learn from it, for sure.

I will say this about the heads up match. James (Scooter) and I have played cards together in card rooms, Tourneys, WSOP events, local home games, etc. for several years. He is also one of my best friends, and off the table, we are like brothers and old drinking buddies, and on the table, there is no friend, every chip is in play and we are fierce enemies.

That being said, I've never had as much fun playing heads up, or playing poker for that matter than I have last night in our 5 hour session.

He and I (I think) are pretty closely matched as far as poker playing goes, there are some things about his game I admire, and I think that goes both ways, in that he is a pretty solid and predictable player and always tells me how he wished he could mix up his game like I do. (for example, trying to make a move on a pot with bottom pair on the flop and then rivering the 3 for tripps)

So, the match between us, seems like we are on pretty level ground to one another, and after the one session, I can see already that this isn't the first time we do this.

More to come from the next session which will likely be this weekend. Hopefully I can grind back to 20K and feel like I've got some chips to play with.

[Quads]

James (Scooter) and I are going to get together over the weekend to continue our match-

We have some drinking to do, and we need to go check out a new poker room that opened. So we're hitting two beers with one glass. After that, back to the garage to grind it out.

Looks for a tilt report late weekend / early week.

[pkf655]

Quads,
I really enjoy your report. The heads-up challenge is really interesting.

[bigjohn]

Wow intense action.... Thx for the updates!!!

[Quads]

OK, after a little beta testing with a buddy of mine, I think I have most of the details worked out for a live video stream of the next session in the Heads Up Challenge with Scooter.

I need to do some additional work, and work out a few other details and do some more testing with some additional people, but if all works out like I'm thinking, (or hoping) there will be a hole cam for each of us and a table cam for the pot / community cards.

Snap Shot so far of the following:
Table Cam:


Hole Card Cam:


Obviously the quality isn't where I want it for the table cam, but that should get better. I can't guarantee full speed / motion picture video, but something that will give a decent representation of the game, cards, and hopefully the action.

More updates to come.