Yesterday I ended up losing around 5 buy-ins. I definitely made plenty of mistakes and have a lot to work on. I did run almost 5 buy-ins below EV, so if I look at it from the point of view that I broke even, it’s not too discouraging.
I learned a bit about the perils of ego and how heads-up can get personal. I played one guy around 20 times via rematches simply because I felt he was bad and it annoyed me that he kept winning against me. While I am pretty certain I had an edge on him, it likely wasn’t big enough to justify rematching him that many times. Plus I was hungry and tired. So I should have just stopped playing way before it got to 20 games.
The good news is that I think I figured out how to beat him (at a decent clip) towards the last half of our games. The bad news is that it took me quite a few games to figure it out. I hope that playing more and getting more experience will help me figure these things out faster in the future.
I didn’t play poker today. Probably back at it tomorrow.
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