I logged in today to play the Sunday Million.  I got knocked out of that within 30 minutes.  I have been playing AWFUL in NLH.  That is why I haven’t been playing many tournaments as of late.

So I was kinda on mini-tilt to start the night session.

Then I sit at 2 tables of 10/20.  One table everyone basically left the minute I sat down.  I don’t think it was actually related to me sitting down though as there were some regulars sitting there.  I won $5 there, but at the other table….one that went a little more than 30 minutes after I sat, I lost $198.

So I was already in the hole $413 for the day.  Not good.

So then I sat at 15/30 and waited for competition.  I played four $50 HU NL 5 card draw SNGs and won them all for $190 while waiting for competition.

So now I down $223 for the day.  Still not good.

Then finally someone sits to play me at 15/30.  It was a PL draw regular that occasionally plays limit.  He sits down and I go up a quick $100, then proceed to lose it all back.  By time he gets up to $123, he leaves……awe hit-n-run.

I was not in the mood to get hit-n-run.  Not tonight.

So now I am down $346 for the day.

I just sit there and wait for a little longer and I get new competition.  With this new competition comes the same player that hit-n-ran me earlier.  So we are playing 3 handed.  I am up about $150 as the “new competition” loses all his money (I believe he put up $150).  Then I am back to heads-up against Mr. Hit-n-runner.  He proceeds to take all I was and get up with me being down $10 from that session.

Now down $356 for the day, I was really starting to steam.

So I decide to get this player back.  He is sitting at a PL draw table waiting for competition.  I sit, win $88 and leave in a matter of a minute or two.  I did this hoping that he would be upset and come back to play me at my table.

He obliged.  He comes and sits back at my 15/30 table and I know he just itching to hit-n-run me again.  But this time, I win $118 and leave.

Now down $238 for the day.

I move to another 15/30 table.  Knowing that this player would likely come as well.  I was just trying to get under his skin as he was mine.  He joins me at the new table where I proceed to take another $232 more and get up.

Rinse and repeat, as he joins me at another table.  This time I win $115 and get up.

Now I am up $109 for the day, things are starting to look a little better.

I sit at another table and this player again joins me and I go on to take $292.  I would have kept playing, but heck he seems to want to play more when I am the one doing the hit-n-running.  So I get up, sit back down…..but this time he never joins me.

But its ok, as I am now up $401 for the day, things are much better.

I just sit and wait a little while longer at the 15/30 table as another player joins me.  I look at the notes I have on this player.  Of course it says that this player will hit-n-run.  Soooo, I proceed cautiously.

I go on to win half his buy in amount ($282) and I decide to do the same thing I did to the last hit-n-runner.  I get up, after typing in the text box that my notes told me that I owed him a hit-n-run.  Unfortunately though, he never follows me to another table.

Oh well, it was fun I guess for a night.  I know I normally don’t care about hit-n-runners, but today I was just in “that mood.”

So for the night I won $776.  But my totals in my spreadsheets are only showing $683.5…….hmmmm need to review some stuff to see where I am missing something.  All of this table jumping got me confused.

Either way, fun night and my total to 60k stands at $11,675.13.

I played one session tonight of 15/30 and 10/20.  I was playing 2 tables at a time, but the 15/30 game only went on for an hour.

Though it was looking rough at times, I won $751 at 15/30 and $400 at 10/20.

Then I got hit-in-run later in the night for $90 at 15/30.  The player that hit-n-ran me came back to play again, which I am sure he was going to do the same thing again, and though I am contradicting what I said in the post highlighted above, I decided not to play him again at the time since I was playing a HU sng.

Speaking of the HU sng, to cap off the night I played one $50 HU NL 5 card draw SNG, which I won. ($47.50)

So I won $1,108.5 for the night….

My total to 60k has now pasted the 10k mark: $10,190.63.

As I just got “hit n run” again.  I realized that I will probably post that term frequently now that I am talking more in depth about each session I have due to my 60k in 6 months goal.  I wanted to take the time to talk about what a “hit n run” is as many readers may not know.

Often times, there will be no 5 card draw game going.  So I will sit and wait for opponents.  Sometimes that wait lasts a while.  But every so once in a while someone will sit down.  I sit with my normal $600 at 15/30 and this someone joins with $200. 

Right off the bat I suspect the player to be average at best.  It is just a matter of whether he or she is too passive or too aggressive.  I will usually have a good idea within 20 hands or so. 

However, with these “hit n runners”, I may never see 20 hands.  They will sit with $200, win a quick $150 in litterally 5-10 hands and get up.  Hence, the term “hit n run”……they hit me for a quick little bit of money and run for the hills to go roll around in my money.

I have had players tell me how much they hate hit-n-runners.  Me on the other hand, welcome them with open arms.

Why do they do it?  It is usually because they are scared.  They get up a couple bucks and they get scared that they will lose it back.  Which is usually what they would do, so I am not going to complain. 

Other times though, they sit down with their $200 and lose it in a matter of less than 5 minutes.  It all evens out over time, and more often than not they are really giving and running instead of hitting and running. 

But one thing these hit-n-runners don’t realize is that one aspect of a Heads-up game is momentum.  If you have the momentum, why get up?  I am almost glad that these guys get up with only a little fraction of what I would have been willing to play for.  They don’t realize that they had something good going.  Then they come back a couple days later, looking to hit-n-run once again, but this time I have notes on this player and already have somewhat of an idea of how they play.  They usually, not always, just lose it all back and then some.

See, each session….whether it is 2 minutes long or 2 hours long, is all the same.  Poker IS one long session.  If someone wants to sit and try to win a quick hundred, go ahead.  But you better win!

Oh and by the way……

as I was writing this post, a suspected hit-n-runner just sat and lost $197.50 to me and left.