Heads up Poker

So it has been a while since I have posted. I had some medical issues, I'm sure you all know how that goes.

Anyway, heads up poker.


When its gets down to the final two and the blinds are huge. What do you do? What is your strategy?

Power poker push, bet. Sometimes you have to get lucky with it all in.

I play aggressive, I try to make the opponent play as I want (nothing easy), but at the same time I try to play safe to avoid losing my chips.. GL

the most valid strategy in tournaments HEADSUP is ... be aggressive!

I love playing heads up. Heads up is the best form of poker for me, cause there is a lot of play. And you can have in mind the probabilities and make some moves. When playing against only one person the probabilities are different from having to play against 8 other players. So your gameplay should adjust to that.

When you flop a pair most of the times you are good. Top pair you are like the nuts. Most of the times nobody of you two will connect to the board, so you have to know that to play your opponent and make some moves. Your opponent having a premium hand most of the time he will let you know preflop, all the other times is definately good to bluff any high card on the board. In heads up wins the most aggressive. But, being overly aggressive, your opponent might adjust to your image, and wait for a monster hand to take you to value town. You have to find a happy medium. Dont let your opponent exploit you.

My best advice is to mix things and betting most streets so your opponent dont know if you connected or not, and exploit your image. Most of the time your opponent will get frustrated and make the wrong moves to you. That is what I strive in heads up, to exchanging jabs with opponent until the time he makes the wrong move and lose his whole stack or at least a half of it.

While I can get Freestocks advice to power push and hope to get lucky, I believe you should follow that strategy only if you are bad at playing postflop.

I am very aggressive when I play heads-up. I go all in on any pair 88+ or AQ+

Heads up requires a lot of patience. It's a grind. But unlike earlier stages of a tournament, there's no shame getting it in pre with any decent hand.

Im usually trying to play agressive and pick up some blinds,you dont want to be passive guy who is folding all the time especially in turbo or hyper-turbo tournaments

I think we should be aggressive, but aggressive with caution.

I totally agree, to go from A and 8 quietly, weightless in consciousness.

To play HU you will need a lot of patience and be able to adapt to the game of yours opponents. Sometimes you need to be very aggressive, others time you will need to slow down, but with carefull, cause the villain can make a good hand, like when you slowplay AA against 72o and the villain flop two pair or flush, you will need cold blood to slowplay and fold AA, KK, for some boards.

This is a complex answer.

Consider heads up play:

• (1) Ones general hand value is changing dramatically and one should be widening their hand range compared to say a 9 player setting; in heads up ones hands are competing against less players and thus have a higher probability to be ahead at any given time. This is not aggression merely a mathematical basis by which to form your conservative and or aggressive heads up strategy.
• (2) Ones range and bet value will also change based on ones stack value relative to the blinds.
• (3) Finally, ones hand range and bet value should also be changing based on your opponent's hand range and bet values.

In tournaments heads up sadly usually does not have that high of complexity since (2) many times forces the heads up players to go into coin flip situations and thus the play rarely gets to the deeper aspects of poker strategy that enter when (3) is considered. But the cases where both players have breathing room heads up play is where real poker really starts for me.

You may also want to check this out

https://www.cardschat.com/heads-up-strategy.php

anthonydalvaro said:

So it has been a while since I have posted. I had some medical issues, I'm sure you all know how that goes.

Anyway, heads up poker.


When its gets down to the final two and the blinds are huge. What do you do? What is your strategy?

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The strategies I employ in heads up usually involves check raising a lot of players bet with nothing, try check raising to put pressure.


As well when having a hand put as many chips in the pot as possible.

You have to play more aggresive, expand you range of hands, and if you face a passive player, you have to press him.

Heads up poker is very different from poker for 6-10 people.

Heads up poker is very different from poker for 6-10 people. Headsup should be played very aggressively in order to win often. In general, I treat heads up as a lottery, because here a very important role is played by luck. But lately I've played a lot of heads up and even loved this kind of tournaments. Who aggressively plays in most cases, he wins.

I think it depends on how good you are. There are a lot of players that can pick you apart. If you are playing someone with a better skill set I think to pick your spots and shove isn't a bad strategy. Just rely on the math and take away the "skill". Most hands are very close if you have live cards, pros hate people that keep shoving, lol.... Heads up any two cards are good. By shoving you limit the villain's range. You are making it difficult to play Q9s which usually would be a call.

Force the villain to find a hand.

If you face a very aggressive player you have to see as many flops you can.Don't be pathetic folding and folding all the time because he will take advantage over you and when you even have a strong hand you will not win the value you should.Seeing more flops makes you more unpredictable and you are able in trapping him on some good spots. But I prefer to be that aggressive player who controls the game

Heads up is the most challenging form of poker, real poker

Heads up

I get aggressive at that point. If I get two good cards I bet big and/or go over the top all-in. Good luck

Its very blind to dependent, but you want to exploit the villans tendancies ie... if the villan limps a bunch of buttons -raise them, if they raise the btn too big then value own them, if they fold to min raises- min raise them, etc.

when the blinds are getting big and antes are comming into play you should play a bit more aggressive. People wont call that easy at that point so you can steal a few nice hand.

Position is also very important at this stage. Early places definitely arent that interesting since a lot of strong hands can call your raise

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This topic is about Heads Up.

I can give you a document that specifically talks about the strategies for heads up, I do not publish it here because I do not know if I would inflict the rules of the community.