11:56am: I can’t figure out what’s going wrong. Any way you cut it, I win 60% of my heads up matches. However, this is without a doubt the most brutal month I’ve had to endure as a heads up pro. Last night, I started my session around 10-11pm, and in the first two matches everything that has been happening to me lately, happened again in basically a microcosm of my whole month.

First match: Have the guy down to 700 chips. I’ve played him once, his ROI is negative, and he pushes all in. I have JJ, which is a snap call in this situation. He turns over KJoff. Board was 2 8 10 10, and river K. He’s back in the game. But I’m still focused on putting him away. We actually get to the 100-200 blinds, and I pick up A10 suited (another insta-shove). He calls, he has KQ. Flop was 2 2 5, turn Q, good game me. That’s twice we got the money in as a favorite, and once as a heavy favorite, and no dice.

Second match: Lately, I keep getting in situations where I have a REALLY strong hand, and my opponent keeps flopping straights. I had 22, he raised, I called. The board is 2 3 5, so he’s gonna need 4 6 (not in his raising range), A4 (possibly but not likely), 33 (always pay off set over set in heads up sngs) or 55 to beat me. Sure as the sky is blue, we get it in and he flips over A4, board doesn’t pair and he wins the match.

I was so discouraged from those two games, and I was tired from having run all those errands so I just decided to call it a night and put in one long, focused session today. For those of you who have been following my blog, you must be saying to yourself, “when is he going to show the dominance that his graph indicates?” This is true, the start of this blog pretty much coincided with my bad run as of late. However, I’m glad it happened that way because it’s easy to sit here and write articles when I’m winning. It takes character to keep your head up when you’re losing. But to be totally honest, this is more a “break even run” rather than a losing one if you look at my graph.

What we DO know for sure is that it WILL turn around and gravitate towards my 60% win pct soon. Maybe not as soon as I would like, but I feel like my sample size is big enough to say “relatively soon”. Results from today later…

*EDIT*, 3:49pm: I’m 4-1 (3-1 on Stars, 1-0 on Cake) but I’m reserving all judgements/observations until the session is complete. I’m too focused/machine-like today to let any outside influences corrupt my mindset.