undefeated

Oh, I should point out that I’m undefeated in heads-up tournaments that last two or fewer hands.  2-0!

The first was a few months ago: I was holding A2s in the first hand and flopped a flush draw.  The turn card gave me my flush, and doofus picked up two pair.  I brought him all-in, and he called.  Score!

The second was yesterday: hand 1, AKo in the BB, and since it took my opponent eight years to call, I pushed him all-in.  Fold.  Next hand: 66.  From the button, I pushed all-in.  He called with QTo, and my pair held up. 

Honestly, I think an all-in push has to be done three times before you say "this guy didn’t come to play poker, and I’m not going to let him get away with this anymore".  It happened in a SnG a few weeks back: he pushed his first hand preflop (from the BB), his second hand post-flop (from SB), and then reraised me all-in pre-flop with his third hand.  I called with AQo, and he turned over… QQ.  I still think it was a good call: we’ve all seen the type, and I decided to make my stand.  Someone had to, right?

But I caught an ace on the river to survive.  He still had a chunk of change from the blinds he’d picked up, but after a lot of loud braying about only playing solid hands, and how he guaranteed he’d finish in the money, he was out a few hands later in ninth.

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