Heads Up Challenge

He was talking about the heads up canadian championship

Best of luck you guys, hope you come out on top with a nice profit to make it worth while!

Today was short, not much to say.

Today
0 wins - 2 losses
Profit: (-$4.40)

Total (38 matches)
23 wins - 15 losses
Profit: $8.40

Stopped today after 50 matches, so I am half way done with my challenge.

I am tempted to just stop now, because it is really kinda boring just playing HU sngs. The whole purpose of this challenge was to test the profitability of HU sngs and so far: Yes they are profitable, but man they sure are boring.

I have ran into all different types of opponents through my first 50. These opponents ranged from micro stake grinders to donks like this:

Seat 1: Edelweiß 65 (1320 in chips)
Seat 2: jordanbillie (1680 in chips)
jordanbillie: posts small blind 5
Edelweiß 65: posts big blind 10
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to jordanbillie [8c Qc 7d Kh]
jordanbillie: raises 20 to 30
Edelweiß 65: calls 20
*** FLOP *** [2c Ac Jc]
Edelweiß 65: checks
jordanbillie: bets 60
Edelweiß 65: calls 60
*** TURN *** [2c Ac Jc] 5♣
Edelweiß 65: bets 180
jordanbillie: raises 540 to 720
Edelweiß 65: raises 510 to 1230 and is all-in
jordanbillie: calls 510
*** RIVER *** [2c Ac Jc 5c] K♦
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Edelweiß 65: shows [2h Qd Th Kc] (a straight, Ten to Ace)
jordanbillie: shows [8c Qc 7d Kh] (a flush, Ace high)

My opponent thought he had the King high flush with his Kc in his hand. (seriously, he typed it in the chat).

I have had 1 or 2 handed matches and I have also had 45 minute to 1 hour tight as trying to get shucked corn into a thin plastic bag matches.

I have really developed a solid PLO HU game that has adapted throught my first 50 and also within the matches themselves. Here are my stats:

Today
8 wins - 4 losses
Profit: $5.60

Total (50 matches)
31 wins - 19 losses
Total Profit: $14.00 even

So I am on pace for 62 wins - 38 losses and a $28 profit over 100 matches.
I want to do better than that. I want to be at 70 and 30 by the end, so I have to go 39 and 11 in the 2nd half.

thanks for explainin that jordanbillie.hope ur quest turns out aighht for ya.saw you on cake other day good to see some1 else on here from old forum.

Well done so far. Clearly these games are beatable at a reasonable rate. Keep it up! Omaha is all yours. Holdem is mine

Still making a profit.
Nice.

Goal 70/30.
Play it strong and make it happen.

Play the Situation as much as you can.

Good luck

lemme know when you finish and we can play the 5khands.

did you wanna do 50nl or 100nl?

Hey jordanbillie. I am going to take a week off. feeling like poker is more frustrating right now than fun. so am going to take a break. in the last 2 day only played 3 HU sng and won all 3 for a protfit of $5.40.
Total games played 16
Won 12
Lost 4
Profit $16.80

Moderate day today. Played 5 matches.

Today
3 wins - 2 losses
Profit: $1.00

Total (55 matches)
34 wins - 21 losses
Profit: $15.00

Today i was really on top of my husng game. I got my money in ahead and it held up most of the time. I won 8/9 games today (lost a $5 and won one $10 and 7 $5s). So far im at 32 games, 23 wins, 9 losses. All $5 except 2 which were $10 (both of which I won).

Last couple of days have been great!

May 9th played 1 match and won. +$1.80
May 10th played 1 match and won. +1.80

Got home from work this morning at 5am and decided to play a match while eating a snack. I waited for 5 min in a $2 hu match and nobody came, but a guy was registered for a $5 match waiting for an opponent. I decided to play at the $5 table. I won the first match rather easily and was trying to type in the chat "gg" and when I hit enter it accepted the rematch for the game. I was forced to play him again. The 2nd match took 55 minutes to play! I was all the way down to 235 chips and kept battling to almost even and then I would get knocked down again. I ended up winning the match in the end so over the last 3 days...

4 wins - 0 losses
Profit: $13.10

Total (59 matches)
38 wins - 21 losses
Profit: $28.10

Glad youre doing this. I too like HU but have not been much better than 50%. Good to see someone grinding money at this. Goodluck

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I just finished my 100 games. Did decently but I think I could have done better. Major addition to my bankroll though so im happy.

great progress!!! Seems like you got omaha figured out! lol crushing it!!

yeah very decent performance IMO... ohama is a tought game, even in HU so keep making profit!! GL

Your profit was great because you were crushing those $10 HU sngs! Great job man!

Just played another one $2.20 match today and won it.

Total (60 matches)
39 wins - 21 losses
Profit: $29.90

On a hot streak of 7 wins in a row right now.

3 more wins today.

Today
3 wins - 0 losses
Profit: $5.40

Total (63 matches)
42 wins - 21 losses
Profit: $35.30

At 10 wins in a row right now

Slacking again! Been playing mostly PLO ring game and doing quite well. Also throwing in some limit holdem ring game as well.

Played one HU match today and won it in about 6 hands.

Today
1 win - 0 losses

Total (64 matches)
43 wins - 21 losses
Profit: $37.10

11 wins in a row.

Really sat down and crunched out the remaining HU sngs. I have finished all 100 and man, they really are a grind. My initial question was if they were profitable and they are...

Total (100 matches)
64 wins - 36 losses
Profit: $41.90

Overall I had $226.10 of buyins with $268 of winnings. If I did the math right that would be an 18.5% ROI over the 100 matches, which is below my normal ROI on other sng games.

I had fun and I will take the $42, now it is back to 9 and 90 person sngs with some PLO ring mixed in.

hi jordanbillie,

i only registered to ask you the following questions.

Do you ever had problems with less traffic and how was the average lenght of time?

If i look for running matches i see they most running like over 40 minutes.

Heads up play is one of my strong suits until it seems that the match will never end and then I start to get risky.