I just played the worst heads up player I had ever seen.

[frob23]

It was insane. But I knew this guy was going to be "interesting" from earlier in the game. This hand was my first indication.
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Absolute/UB Cereus No-Limit Hold'em Tournament, 100/200 Blinds (4 handed) - Converter Tool from FlopTurnRiver.com

saw flop

UTG (t2660)
Hero (Button) (t2375)
SB (t4620)
BB (t3845)

Hero's M: 7.92

Preflop: Hero is Button with 10, Q
1 fold, Hero bets t700, 1 fold, BB calls t500

Flop: 3 A T

BB checks, Hero bets t1500, 1 fold

BB SHOWS: Q Q

Total pot: t2200
Main pot: t2200 won by Hero
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First... he doesn't reraise pre-flop, which was odd. And then he check/folds that flop? That is SO insanely weak. I was a pretty aggressive and frisky player. There were a ton of hands I was doing that with that Q-Q beat. I'm not saying my play is good -- it's probably a bad one. But I didn't forget this. I was blown away by the fold here.

So we end up heads up. And this guy has a horseshoe up his ass. Seriously, I can't win a hand against him. That is... unless I shoved. He folded every single time I shoved. With like two exceptions. Needless to say, I abused this habit of his without mercy. And then he started to show me how well he was playing.

----- 1,645:11,855 stacks
Frob23 posts 150
Spud posts 300
Frob23 dealt 7 T
Frob23 all-in 1,495 to 1,695
Spud Folds and shows A 5
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----- 1,495:12,005
Frob23 posts 150
Spud posts 300
Frob23 dealt 5 4
Frob23 calls 150
Flop: 4 A J
Spud checks
Frob23 all-in 1,170
Spud Folds and shows 6 J
----- (again I play horribly but he lets me get away with it)

----- 2,145:11,355
Frob23 posts 150a25
Spud posts 300a25
Frob23 dealt K T
Frob all-in 1,970 to 2,120
Spud Folds and shows A 7
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And this just went on and on. Or he would raise and I would fold... and he would show K-K or whatever. He raised only a few times pre-flop and showed almost all of them. Mostly big pairs (he really had a horseshoe up his ass... I am not kidding). But I could get him to fold over and over by just shoving pre-flop. And was REALLY short a lot of the time. But I could just shove and get some chips back.

We played something like 180 hands heads up. I just could not get chips from him because he kept hitting hands. And showing me... AS IF I DIDN'T KNOW... YOU'RE WEAK TIGHT AS FUCK... STOP SHOWING ME!!!

I never commented. Eventually I got him all-in and doubled... and by then it left him with 3k... he made a small come-back... regained the lead but I ate his stack back down with shoves. He never stood up to me. I mean... just absolutely never did it.

He finally shoved 3-3 into me when the blinds were 300/600a75... I called with K-Qo... a really weak call considering how weak-tight he was but I was bored with his game. I hit my Q... and it was over.

This guy was terrible. I could have whittled him down to one blind and he wouldn't have taken a stand. I must have shoved 40-60 times during the heads up match (just enough to not let him know I was shoving any two cards)... and he wouldn't call.

It was sick. And then he would show these absolutely INSANE folds. I would shove for 3xBB and he would fold and show A-9s... as if I was supposed to be intimidated or impressed. He just emboldened me to keep raping him over and over.

With me being a chip-dog by 12-1 at many times during this match... there is no logical way that I should have been able to win.

[dew12109]

I have found that in a lot of lower limit sng's, players do not adjust to the higher level of aggression when it gets to heads up. Granted, this guy is an extreme example, but a lot of players let you run them over until they are on the short stack. Nice come-back though. Seems like you played it right.

[frob23]

Yeah a lot of people don't compensate. But the thing that really crowns this guy as the worst of the worst... it was the showing of the hands. This would have been a lot harder to win if I didn't know he was folding such a large percentage of hands that would have been easy calls for most people.

If he just folded, without showing, I would have to worry that maybe I was just getting lucky and he wasn't holding cards that were strong enough to call with. And then I would worry that eventually, he was going to have a hand strong enough to call and I would get caught with something like 4-6o and would be out. I still worried a little about that but only because I really expected him to get AKs or a big pair eventually.


By constantly showing me his hands, it made it very easy for me to get out of the way when he called a big raise or put in a bet himself. I just gave up on a hand if he showed any interest. I checked a lot of my big blind hands... because he would check/fold the SB a lot. At one point I decided to get frisky and I floated a bet of his on the flop. The turn paired the bottom card and I check/raised him. He called. And instantly, I was done with the hand. I knew I wasn't firing on the river. I wasn't even calling a bet. I checked the river... he bet... I folded. And he showed the full house.

I mean, this is how obvious it was. He might as well have been playing the cards face up... or just given me the chips and forgotten the card idea altogether.

[Fictive]

You know frob, you're wrong about something... You mentioned a few times there that your play was bad. no it wasn't. It was pretty much perfect. The guy never fights back, of course you keep pushing and eating him alive blind after blind after blind. And on the player... wow... and here I thought I've seen some weak players in heads-up situations.