Tough Run

I've been running like crap the past three days heads up, just sick spots that I generally couldn't do much about although I'm sure my play hasn't been optimal.

Thankfully I've done well over a small sample size at 6-max. I really think heads up play can help tremendously with the 6-max game. My aggression along with VPIP and PFR raise percentages have been more where I'd like them to be so far and I think it certainly helps hand reading. A large part of the 6-max game is trimmed down to heads up play anyway for the most part after the flop.

I've dropped about five buyins through a little over 4,000 hands of heads up but got four of them back through 1,500 hands at 6-max so luckily I've only dropped a buyin since my last post. Hopefully I can book a decent week even though it's started rough. Here are some heads up hands, I'll keep bad beats to a minimum.

This villian was a competent player and even though I don't like stacking off for a full buy in with one pair, I was pretty confident my hand was good here. With him leading out and thinking a while before shoving, I felt I was ahead. Nice turn sir.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255502

This villain wasn't so competent, I guess he thought his hand was good after my check raise on the turn. I guess I could have led the flop and probably would have if he wasn't such a fish.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255515

Another fish, ouch.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255599

Again, a bad player here but I thought he was fairly weak and thought this was a good bluffing spot and I had outs in case he wanted to go with the hand. Don't know how he takes his hand all the way but looking back I guess I should have took the free card.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255525

This hand worked out well. Usually I raise the flop here but he was very aggressive and I took a chance and waited a for a safe turn to try and get the money in. I figured I was good here 95% of the time.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255537

Here is another instance where I thought waiting for a safe turn would be optimal. Lucky for me the turn put a lock on the hand and I didn't have to worry about making marginal decisions.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255540

I've made some big calls on overshoves on the river and here is another. A lot of times at 6max I find these to be strong, not so much in heads up though. Of course, I've made my share of bad calls but those have come on smaller bets for the most part.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255546

Time for some 6-max hands which I'm sure is much more relevant to anyone reading my blog. I want to keep mixing them both together. I just stuck to heads up last week because I was riding some positive momentum.

Does anyone keep betting this turn into two players? I thought there was a decent chance my hand wasn't good and I didn't want to get raised out of the pot. If it was just me and the short stack I'd be happy to get it in. The short stack was a 50/12/1 player while the bigger stack was a standard TAG regular.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255583

Should I have bet this river for value? Looking back maybe a bet/fold is the best play here. Villain is a solid TAG/SLAG winning regular who is aggressive. I think he rarely has less than two pair after calling my turn raise, maybe a big draw.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?1255589

That's it for now. I ran 20/16/3.5 at 6-max which is a big step for me actually. I had been anywhere from 15/10 to 16/12 and have struggled getting those numbers up while feeling comfortable doing so. Heads up has helped me do that.