Change of tack

In an effort to mix up my games and try and find some luck I decided to play some heads-up games on Pokerstars. I got off to a decent start and won two out of the first three games I played. Problem is, with a $5.25 buy-in you are only winning $4.75 for each game, so winning 2/3 yielded only a $4.25 profit; and winning two out of three is about all you can really hope for.

So, I decided to play some heads-up knock-out tournaments, starting with 4 players and having to win two games in a row, to win $20. Unfortunately, my luck deserted me and I lost four in a row; two in the first round and two in the final. So, in a short space of time, I've now dropped $21 and am down $16.75.

Abandoning that approach I decided to play in a couple of Double-or-Nothing SNG's and, after some real sweating at the bubble, cashed in both and scraped back $10.20, finishing the evening down just $6.55.

Earlier today I decided to spend my lunch break playing a tiny $1 SNG, which after 70 minutes I eventually won. Hmmm, over an hour for $3.30 in profit is not really a valuable use of time. But I played really loose aggressive in the early stages and although my chips yo-yo'd, I eventually hit some monsters and got callers, putting me in the chip lead right through to heads-up.

Flopped Quads

Quite early on in heads up I hit an amazing hand. I had pocket 7's in the BB and my opponent put in a standard 3xBB raise. I trebled this, happy to call any all-in (I had him covered, 2-1).
The flop came down 7-10-7, and I had flopped quads; dreamland. I am praying that my opponent has an over-pair, or has hit the 10 bigtime.
Naturally I just check, trying to induce a bet; it doesn't come. The turn was the 2h, putting a flush draw out there, and again I'm praying he has some of this. Again, I wait an eternity and just check; still no action from the opponent. The 9h makes the flush a real possibility, so I put out a small bet (about 1/4 of the pot) hoping it would look like a stopper bet and I am scared of the flush. Naturally, I am praying for a re-raise; no such luck, he just folds.

It's amazing how difficult it is to ever get any action with quads. I can understand when there is trips on the board, but with two sevens and a ten, followed by a nine on the river it's just typical that the other player has no draws. I've no idea what he raised and called with, but it must have been an under-pair, or something.