Heads-Up Grudge Match Challenge

Hi, I've been playing poker nearly a year now and have gained a fair understanding of the game. I have a friend who has just started playing online poker and has this 'problem' where everything I think I'm good at, he thinks he's better than me at. So even though he's played less than 1000 hands, doesn't raise pre-flop with ANY HAND and bets around 3x the pot if he has the nuts, he thinks he's better than me.

Therefore I challenged him to 100 games of heads-up poker with constant blinds and 100 big blinds starting stacks (Except the first 15 games which we played with physical chips and had around 50 big blinds), £2 per game. I thought that this would be the easiest money ever. So far we have played 16 games and he is currently leading 9-7. Here are some of the hands which gave him 9 victories:

Me AT, him KT. Flop comes ATx and we get it all in, turn is a J, river a Q.
Me KK, him QT. Board come AKxx, we go all in on turn and up pops the magic Jack.
Me A8, him JJ. Board comes AK8, he donks 2x the pot, I re-raise, he calls and turn is a J and he get it all in.

I have been playing aggressively pre-flop with a reasonable range (he doesn't fold much) which includes suited connectors and all the usual suspects. My questions are:

Can his luck hold out enough for him to win the majority of the games?
How should I be playing against someone with no clue whatsoever?

Edit: as a side note, these are not hands where I have few chips left, they are KEY HANDS in separate matches.

Thanks
MasterFelter

honestly if you lose a heads up challenge to a guy that is as bad as you are saying, you need a serious makeover of your game. its high variance but making the right moves reduces it greatly over time. out of 100 games you should win 70 of them atleast if he has no idea.

Blinds don't increase? huh?
If blinds aren't increasing then I don't understand the format you've got going here I mean if you're playing HU NL 'cash' 100bb's deep. Then why not set out a challenge with a certain number of hands & whoever is up at the end of it is the winner.

If you want a simple way to set up a HU challenge with blinds increasing over time (HU SNG) why not set up two clubs on HomeGames on pokerstars (so you can play max. number of games each day... I think it's only 10 games per each club.. which is why it'd be better if you both opened a club). Play on there for playchips (put your wager for the challenge on the side).

Poker Orifice said:

Blinds don't increase? huh?
If blinds aren't increasing then I don't understand the format you've got going here I mean if you're playing HU NL 'cash' 100bb's deep. Then why not set out a challenge with a certain number of hands & whoever is up at the end of it is the winner.

If you want a simple way to set up a HU challenge with blinds increasing over time (HU SNG) why not set up two clubs on HomeGames on Pokerstars (so you can play max. number of games each day... I think it's only 10 games per each club.. which is why it'd be better if you both opened a club). Play on there for playchips (put your wager for the challenge on the side).

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We're playing with 100 BBs on the play money cash tables on my play money account and the eventual loser pays £2 for every game he loses minus the games he's won.

Just wanted some reassurance that 100 games is enough really. Any strategy tips?

No, the odds of luck/variance holding up and him winning the whole thing should be very, very close to 0% if you have the edge you're claiming on him. If you're constantly getting it in 90%+ favorite..just do the math, won't happen.

That said..how were the other 6 games decided that you llost~ similarly? Or was he ahead and/or were they coinflips? If they were, reevaluate every move you're making because you should almost never get it in with 50/50 odds when you have that ridiculous edge over him.

Slow things down, spot betting and tell paterns..use your edge. If he's folding to all your cbets, abuse it. If he's rarely bluffing, jus get out of the way. If he's getting super aggro...slowplay. find the super obvious leaks in his game and use em.

If you lose to a guy this bad just quit poker imo. If you have a 75% WR you'll win >50 games nearly 100% of the time.

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Min-raise a huge range OTB and 3-bet a tight range from the BB.