Finally A Win!

Ok so it wasn`t exactly a massive cash. Actually it was just a bounty sng. But given that I`ve barely been able to win a hand, much less a tourney it was pretty pleasing.
The more so because I waited over 35 hands before I won one. I was getting terrible cards and the one time I actually had a hand I had to lay it down. That laydown was actually a mistake but I wasn`t to know that at the time and AJ isn`t exactly my favourite hand anyway.

I finally manged to pick up a couple of hands in a row and was getting back into the game when this hand played out.

Starting Hand #12789702-42
sharksbluffer is the Dealer
Shuffling Cards
Huxepa Posted Small Blind 100
DangerMouse420 Posted Big Blind 200
Dealing Cards
You Were Dealt (7s, 9s)
Bilko68 Folds
iceoptimist Folds
McPack Folds
sharksbluffer Calls 200
Huxepa Folds
DangerMouse420 Checks
Dealing Flop (2c,As,2s)
DangerMouse420 Checks
sharksbluffer Bets 200
DangerMouse420 All In
sharksbluffer Calls 1,375
sharksbluffer Shows (6s, Ah)
DangerMouse420 Shows (7s, 9s)
Dealing Turn (2d)
Dealing River (2h)
DangerMouse420 Wins 1,825 from Pot 1 with : Four of a Kind Twos
sharksbluffer Wins 1,825 from Pot 1 with : Four of a Kind Twos

Now I really wasn`t expecting a call. I thought the other guy was just trying a steal and so I pushed my draw. The turn was a killer and after the river card fell it took me a few seconds to realise I was still in the game.

After that narrow escape I started to feel confident and built my stack up very nicely eliminating a couple of players whilst doing so. We were down to three I think and I was stealing very nicely and finally a guy calls my bet. I really didn`t have much, K7o if I remember correctly, I think he had 88. I hit a 7 on the flop and turned a king. The river was a blank and I type in ul gg. The guy immediatley responds by calling me a donk and my only answer was "lol whatever".

I really found it quite amusing. The guy obviously had very little grasp of sng tactics. With blinds very high and a decent chipstack I was in a very aggressive frame of mind and I was willing to gamble against a shorter stack. Add in the bounty he was worth and this kind of aggressive play is definitely +EV. Plus I wasn`t calling with the hand I was betting it. In saying that I hope he continues to play in the same style and that I run into him a few more times.

Anyway I ended up HU versus a player who had been very aggressive since there were 5 players left. I was expecting more of the same but he became surprisingly passive and I quickly built up a 2-1 advantage. I had him on the ropes at around 1,500 chips and put him all-in with Kx. He had JJ and they held up and over the next few hands he clawed his way back to even. His lack of aggression finally killed him though. I whittled him down and finally won something for the first time in a while.

It was a good win though. I was patient throughout the early stages, dropping to around 700 chips at one point. When I did gather a few chips I was hugely aggressive and I kept that momentum going till the end. It`s been a while since I played a sng and I really should play them more often because I do well at them.