Yuck

The last two days have been pretty crappy poker-wise. After my last blog post I had a nice winning day where I won about two buy ins and felt like I was playing a pretty solid HU game.

Unfortunately, the high quality of play did not last. On Friday, I played a short session while watching TV. It started off pretty quick with me winning a buy in on the second hand with a set vs an overpair, but after that I just could not play well. I was stacking off light, giving no one credit and making stupid bluffs. I ended the day down two buy ins.

On Saturday I put in a marathon session, playing over 3k hands. The first 1500 hands or so, I was just playing bad, plain and simple. I was not going with my reads, I never thought they had it and I was down over 6 buy ins. Over the next 750 hands or so, I picked it back up. I was getting my money in good and making good decisions. I eliminated the losses and was up a little more than a buy in. The on one of my tables, a guy was talking alot of trash. I had played him before and didnt think he was particularly good (PTR agreed), so I asked him if he wanted to played more tables, to which he quickly agreed. In the first 10 hands I got it in with my set of sixes to his overpair of Q's on the turn only to have a queen fall on the river. And it was down hill from there.

My opponents style was really difficult to play against (57/55/4.07AF/9.73%3b/61%F3B). He was highly aggressive, 3betting a bunch and betting out when it was on him. I tried to adjust by 4betting and floating, but he would pick up on it and fire second barrels and shove over my light 4bets. I lost a ton of money by calling 3bets in position and folding to cbets or floating cbets and folding to 2nd barrels. Im not sure what exactly to do to combat this. Should I bet tightening up preflop, and if so, which hands should I eliminate out of my range, the low suited connecting hands (J9s) or the mediocre high card hands (K7o)? Or should I be eliminating them both?
I was also losing alot of money by 3betting OOP and getting called then having my cbets called when I dont have much and having to fold to turn bets. Do I tighten my 3betting rage? Start firing more 3 barrels? Any help would be appreciated.

I ended up losing 4 buy ins to him, ending the day down 3 buy ins. I am going to start watching more DC HU vids and try to learn how to play against these guys and just play better in general. Hopefully I can tighten my game up and get things going again.

Good luck everyone!