Just played a couple of $10 HU games with 22Fish to see how his game is, now that he's giving it a shot. He's pretty good. Should be able to kill $10-20 for sure.

Here's the hand we both agreed we wanted to do a post-mortem on. I have a feeling he's going to be a little miffed when he sees what I actually had. As he said, he was putting me on a draw, and "the whole damn lot got there." That's kind of what I was counting on, though I did have plenty of outs if he had anything other than the flush himself.

He did go on to win this game, however.

Full Tilt No-Limit Hold'em, 10+0.50 Tournament, 15/30 Blinds (2 handed) - Full-Tilt Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

Hero (SB) (t1365)
Button (t1635)

Hero's M: 30.33

Preflop: Hero is SB with 10, K
Button raises to t90, Hero calls t60

Flop: (t180) 7, 10, J (2 players)
Hero bets t120, Button raises to t300, Hero calls t180

Turn: (t780) Q (2 players)
Hero thinks for a while, then bets t975 (All-In), 22Fish thinks for ages and finally lays it down.

Total pot: t780

Results:
Hero didn't show 10, K.
Outcome: Hero won t780

Well I can tell him right now his flop raise is way too small esp. on that board.

Originally Posted by MJPerry

Well I can tell him right now his flop raise is way too small esp. on that board.

I'd been a bit of a sissy up until this point though... he made that kind of raise a few times, and previously, I'd always called it and then folded when he hammered the next street. I think he figured I'd flat it with a draw and he was making sure the stack sizes were right for him to ensure my fold if the turn blanked, but that I'd push with e.g. KJ because of the draws and he could either fold or stack me, depending on what he had. The trouble with raising more here is that it pot commits him and gives me good implied odds if I do have a decent draw. He could push, but I can see how that might not be appealing depending on his hand.

The main downside, of course, is what actually happened. By leaving himself enough chips to get away from the hand if a draw hits, he also leaves himself enough chips that I can bluff him if a draw hits but I don't actually have it.

Nice play on the second hand. I had J9 there and took the bait. Had to bet, but couldn't call that push with second pair.

The first one is tough for both of us. Maybe I should have C/Red the first one and folded to a push... I led out because I figured that was the surest way to figure out where I stood (and since he might theoretically check behind with a draw), and I only called his raise because it was so small... I figured he'd put me on a draw, and if a scare card came out, I could use that to get to a showdown cheaply by checking the turn and making a blocking bet on the river that would likely look like a value bet. Or, if it was a sufficiently scary card, as it was, then I might be able to bluff him. As I said, I had played my draws pretty loose-passively up until now in the fact of his constant raising, and I knew he'd noticed.

And, of course, his most likely holding was some random J, so I could likely double up if I did hit my 5-outer. Maybe not with the K clubs, but any of the other four.