Need Patience!

I am one of the most impatient people that I know! This is something that poker has been teaching me, but slowly, way too slowly!

I decided to take a stab at .25/.5 heads-up NL yesterday. I sat down with $30 and played patiently for a bit chipping up to about $39 or so. Villain seemed a bit too passive for heads-up play; I used to play a lot of heads-up sit-n-gos and aggression used to be the key. This villain was folding a lot of times on the button, just giving up whenever I raised out of the button, folding to my re-raises every single time, and so on. I guess that let me get a bit too cocky. Then this hand happens -

Full Tilt Poker, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold’em Cash Game, 2 Players
LeggoPoker.com – Hand History Converter

BB: $60.45

Hero (SB): $39.35

Pre-Flop: T A dealt to Hero (SB)
Hero raises to $1.25, BB calls $0.75

Flop: ($2.50) 3 T 6 (2 Players)

BB checks, Hero bets $2, BB calls $2

Turn: ($6.50) 8 (2 Players)

BB checks, Hero bets $6, BB raises to $16, Hero raises to $36.10 and is All-In, BB calls $20.10

River: ($78.70) 2 (2 Players – 1 is All-In)

Results: $78.70 Pot ($0.50 Rake)
BB showed 8 8 (three of a kind, Eights) and WON $78.20 (+$38.85 NET)
Hero showed T A (a pair of Tens) and LOST (-$39.35 NET)

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*ouch*

What was I thinking! Top pair facing a re-raise on the turn is never good*! God, give me patience, and gimme right now!!

*Google for “baluga’s theorem“, very interesting read.