Working Hard on Labor Day (warning: long)

On Monday, I had an epic day of poker. It started like any other day at the tables: I checked Poker Table Ratings to see if any of the usual donks were playing. There were only two players on the tables, one at .10/.25 and one at .5/1 HU. Since I was itching to play, I joined the waiting list for one of the HU tables the donk was playing. I had never played against the guy before, but he was one of the biggest losers at 100NL for the week so I added him to my buddy list.

I got off the wait list, sat down and played this hand. It was a sketchy spot pre, and I dont think a flatis best but I didnt really wanna shove. Also I obv knew I was gonna hit a boat on the flop


After this hand, he insta rebuys and Im dancing in my seat. A couple hands later, I cant fade his draw...


A hand later he asks if I want to play on more tables. Of course, I tell him I would LOVE to do so. He then requests 6 tables, most of them being deep and I get all warm and fuzzy inside. I had never played 6 HU tables simultaneously but I felt I didnt need my A game to beat this guy. I was right and wrong. I didnt need my A game to beat him, but I needed to not run like crap as well.
After opening up the 6 tables, I found that this guy was unbelievably aggro. To give you an idea, his AF was 8. 8!!! 5 is extremely high, ive never seen an 8 AF in a large sample. Since he was gonna be betting into me a bunch, I figured Id wait for good hands and just let him bet into me. It worked for a while; after 75 or so hands I was already up 1.5 buyins. Then I cant fade hearts again....

That one still stings, ugh.
For the next 200 hands or so, I run about breakeven and not much interesting happened (except for this hand where I soulread him). After that hand I win a nice 200BB pot where I check call TP9K on two streets for lots of value.

Then, disaster strikes. In less than 40 hands, I proceed to lose 10 buy ins. Then 5 more in 60 hands, less than 10 minutes later. It was unreal. The 10 buy in drop was only 5 important hands too, all for at least 160BB each. Here are two interesting ones (interesting because I get sucked out on)



In the other three, I flip once, get it in with QQ vs AA preflop and get it in with TPTK vs his overpair. Not fun.
I was pretty tilted, but I knew I could beat this guy (famous last words, I know) so I continued playing him. I end up making 6 buy ins back in the next 250 hands, but then proceed to lose them back, mainly all in this hand (Which I played awful. I was planning to c/r the flop but he checked back. On the turn and river, I just wasnt convinced he didnt have a random ace since it AJ wasnt out of his 5bet calling range)

I kept fighting though, and made back 11 of the 15 buy ins, but then disaster struck again and I lost most of it back, including two simultaneous hands in which I got stacked for 200BB each.

But then, variance came back around to finally help me out. I went on a super heater, which started right after those simultaneous hands. In the next 175 hands, I made 8 buy ins. And the following hour, I was able to make back all I had lost plus about 200 bucks.

All in all, the match last over 5 hours, over 3700 hands, and spread over 6 tables. I came out up almost 2 buy ins and had some of the biggest swongs Ive ever had in one day, but as long as I profited, Im happy. If the timeline of the match is hard to follow, check out the graph below and it'll give you a better idea (although the graph is missing some hands because my internet constantly disconnected, Copilot says I only profited 27 bucks, but from my FT account I can tell its closer to 180).

Needless to say, I didnt play a hand all of today. 5 hours of poker is enough for a while.

Good Luck everyone!