Got HEM

Well, I got some inspiration of some sort, and researched HEM a bit, after noticing they support OnGame properly now. So I spent some time setting that up last night, and though it wasn't super smooth, I managed to get it as I wanted it pretty much on the first night without much effort. I was playing some NL10 to trial it, and even turned on mini-tables, but on my already smaller screen (15" laptop with big resolution) I just wasn't comfortable with that. Obviously, I'd love to 5-6 table, and the mini-tables make that possible, so once I'm looking at more than 3 tabling, I will re-invest time with them.

My NL100 session followed, and I felt kind of out of it at first, donking off here and there, mainly getting sucked out on and paying off, but I was getting dealt a lot of big hands and getting action which is usually good. In the end I payed off with KK vs AQ when he hit an ace, to reduce my breakeven night to a $60 loss. But even that was lucky, as I hit a huge drawing/made hand on the river where I wasn't quite favourite when the money went in. Also I just generally hit some good hands when I didn't get sucked out on.

I headed over to HU, and things were pretty standard (down a bit) until I played a $15 short stack. He twice got it in bad and lost (with a "gg" after each reload), then reloaded to $30 the 3rd time. I caught a magic turn card in a spot and he paid off, and starting talking about his bad luck. This was a bad idea. He ran like crap after that, and almost every pot greater than a cbet ended up either him or me sucking out on turn/river cards. I think I called a few bad spots, but was getting rewarded :) It wasn't terrible either, usually he'd have me coolered, like Q high, QJ vs KQ and hitting a Jack on the end. I mean that is terrible, but it's not like I was getting it in really light and then just hit a card on the river, I did have a hand before that, but was certainly running above expectation on river cards. He wasn't pleased to say the least, and commented a few times that even though I came out +2 full BI's, he was the better player. He also whinged that this session crippled his nice night before that. But honestly, if you think you can win a good session, then cap it off at HU, you are mistaken. It's a wild ride here, and while it's saved my night, or capped it off before, it's also buried my bad nights even worse too. Still on this occasion, it did in fact save my night somewhat, I ended up profitable.

I'm debating whether to get the last few points I need to make Silverstar on Pokerstars for the month, or just grind out OnGame for a much more likely winrate. Is the extra FPP's you can gain worth anything at all? I don't know but playing a little HU won't quite get me there, I probably need to 3 table NL50 or NL100 for a couple of hours to properly reach it.