Playing Heads Up!!!

#1 August 21st, 2016, 5:26 PM

i have some major problems playing heads-up so i decide to say and ask for some tips guys...you can't win anything if your heads-up play is not good enough
1.Positions(you gone be in position 50% of the time,but this is something that i have to work a lot,playing in position is kicking my ass.... Playing Heads Up!!!

2.Aggression and Pot Control -have to be more aggresive then your opponent but in the same time you have to know when to let the hand go because you gone have in 50% the week hand,but if you don't raise you don't give your opponent the option to fold..so stay aggresive!

3.Adapting-in my opinion in 10 hand you gone know how your opponent is playing so if they are too tight you gone raise more often,if is too loose you can flat call..

4.Bluffing-you have to chose your hand you gone bluff ,i do that will all my draws.

Anyone else whant to share ?? Playing Heads Up!!!

ty for that!!

#2 August 21st, 2016, 6:14 PM

I love heads up play, both cash and tournament and for nearly every game.

I don't know if there is any universal advice. Clearly, aggression is important and your hand valuation skills have to adapt to the situation. Where the jack high flush is an easy fold 9 handed when facing a pot-sized turn shove, it is usually a stack off situation when heads up (unless the guy is super passive and only gets in with better--which is a leak all its own). Generally, you need to get some experience to know what hands are worth what. At the start, you will make some calls or value-bets that seem laughable if you are used to playing 6+ players.

No one can tell you what hands are good/bad in which spots because it is very villian dependent. You have to get a feel for how the other player is playing and base your actions on that. Look for spots where they are folding too much or calling down too lightly. Folding too much is a huge thing at many micro heads up cash tables. In fact, I am willing to bet that you could beat those games by bet/folding every street. Just bet and fold if they come over the top. *

Tournament heads up is fun, but is also determined by hot/cold equity most of the time because stacks are so shallow. In the smallest games, this is still characterized by people folding too much. So stay aggressive. The difference is that when they come at you, you need to commit when your equity is right.

* I am not saying 100% bet/folding every street is the best way to play or will make you the most money. It probably isn't. I just have a gut feeling that you will do better than break even with that strategy because the majority of the players are folding way too often. You also will have some players wise up and take you to value town when they flop big, but I still think you come out ahead from all the times they fold to your 60%-pot bets on each street. I should run the numbers instead of going with my gut. But, I am relatively sure it will be close, if not actually correct.

#3 August 31st, 2016, 8:44 PM

ty vinnie!! Playing Heads Up!!!

#4 September 15th, 2016, 1:07 PM

Thanks for the factful text, Vinnie. ;-)

#5 September 15th, 2016, 2:28 PM

Heads up comes down to more of a gut feeling and I take more chances to insure my opponent doesn't try to steal all the blinds. Not all in type of moves, but staying aggressive. i think that prevents my opponent from trying to bully for blinds. just my opinion, but i have had moderate success this way.

#6 September 15th, 2016, 5:11 PM

yea when playing a random you want to make sure your only going in ith premium hands with the odds being hat they are for hitting

#7 September 15th, 2016, 7:35 PM

Nice one vinnie,but no more heads up for me.
Hate this type of game!

#8 September 15th, 2016, 11:39 PM

I likeplay hads up especialy when I have big amount...

#9 September 22nd, 2016, 4:52 PM

I like playing heads up because there is a lot of postflop game involved when blinds aren't high.

#10 September 22nd, 2016, 5:36 PM

Beautiful. The trouble is that I do not know and we do not like this kind of game

#11 September 22nd, 2016, 5:55 PM

i am very bad in head ups. And really some times i make very bad disision

#12 September 22nd, 2016, 6:37 PM

The text of vinnie is quite interesting.
Heads up is a time that does not please many players because of the aggressiveness.
The very passive player heads up starts with a step to defeat.

#13 September 23rd, 2016, 11:11 AM

play alot of hands Playing Heads Up!!!

Playing Heads Up!!!

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