Same Old Argument

Why do i insist on pushing all in when im heads up against a passive tight person with hands like 1010 ?

Was definitely a bit of frustration in this 19 player $150 game as we were 3 handed for what must have been over an hour and then i was heads up for about 25 minutes before i pushed with 1010 preflop only to see and AK race and i failed. I had pushed with the same hand near the start of the heads up when i was a bit weak and he had folded his 3k raise (A9) so i think i was right to move again in this situation, if the blinds had been 1 level lower then definitely not though.

The blinds were 300,600 and there was 36k in play, i went heads up with only 12k vs 26k and basically floated between 12k and 20k the whole time. Every time i got close to the guy he hit a board bigger than mine, the worst one being a 6-7k pot when i had 10,3 on a J1043Q board and and he held Q10 but luckily he didnt know how top bet big at the river but i had to pay his minimum raise off. I still would have played the same against this guy, i probably won around 80% of the heads up pots as he was that tight.

Put it down to experience and move on, got $950 for my troubles but there was an extra $650 on offer for the winner.

I havent blogged recently as ive only really been playing cash and i dont find that as interesting to blog about.

I tried a CPC shootout earlier for $154 and never got going only for JJ to run into KK 4 handed ...nice. I also was leading the £27 10k for a while then was top 10 until the hand below which sealed my downfall. I also failed in the 25$k added tournament after a number of beats for middle sized pots to put me above average chips failed.

In the 10k, about 80 players left and i have the raiser covered by an extra 9k spare. I call the minimum raise with Kd10d (800 total) and the big blind also calls. flop is QJ9d for the nuts, chk chk raiser bets 1600 leaving himself 1800 behind, i decide to flat call to hopefully guarantee his push on the nxt card whatever cards he has, turn is 8d which looks nice as i have flush draw as well now but shouldnt need it anyway. chk and he goes all in , i call and he shows Ad7d and the friggen river is a diamond !!! great a 10k pot gone that would have put me on 20k in the top 5 with the blinds only 200,400. Finished 60th not long after when i went card dead before i pushed with 22 only to run into 2 x higher pocket pairs and no help.

At the end of the day im just glad i didnt go on tilt after that especially in the $150 i was playing at the same time ! This is the first time ive played the 10k for a while , sunday has 33% more starting stack which is very useful but the standard is at best laughable and i know i should play it more often if i had the patience to tighten up a bit.