I missed a few flops and lost a race and finally exited with a big blind shove into a button raise...i had KsQs vs 73 all in preflop for about 18BB ...... like i said he hit some obscure hands. It did allow me to make it home in time for a betfair freeroll which i managed to win for $800 that managed to pay for the weekend anyway.
I've been playing some small beer heads up to keep things moving for the past month or so. To be honest I've no idea if I'm any good at heads up or not. I seem to go on a run of 150 games where it's a constant up on the P&L graph only for it all to come crashing around my ears in about 50 games. No idea if this is me tilting, variance, me being crap at HU, crap game selection or what. Here's my roller coaster of a sharkscope graph. If anyone can make more sense of it than I can please feel free to comment.
Also think I may have upset some chap in the dim and distant past. Everytime he sees me playing HU he comes in and calls me all sorts of names. Most amusing and breaks the days up... Hi if you are reading :)
It's only in the past few years that I've played much heads up poker. It really is something any serious MTT player should do. I used to be really really bad HU. I had no clue with regards to starting hands, strategy ... nothing. When you consider the leap in money from 1st to 2nd in most MTTs a small/medium stakes decent MTT player can find himself playing in what is essentially a 2k or 3k heads up game at the end of a final table. The number of people who have no clue heads up amazes me. Even at a high level. With that sort of money involved it's worth investing a few hours and $ playing some HU STTs and just getting a feel for for it.
Just be careful not to let it impact your normal MTT game though... there's been a few nights recently when I've found myself making very dubious loose calls in the BF 12k purely because I've been making marginal calls all evening in HU games.
After the last DTD trip itching for another decent trip out live. Can't play the June or July DTD Deepstacks but I'm toying with the idea of playing a GUKP £300 side event in Coventry next week.
Have fun!
Jim
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You make good comments about people being useless at the end of MTT but I'm unsure whether these HU games affect the thought process much or teach you about MTT end game. Two different animals from the small sample I've seen.
Often at the end of an MTT, the stacks are hugely imbalanced and the blind to stack ratio often crippled. They seem more of a shove-fest v drawing a line in the sand.
Can't really commemnt on your graph mate, just hope you don't have it running at the same time as a cash table :-)
GL
R
One of the reasons I stopped playing HUSNG was the fact I kept making weird calls and moves when I was playing my usual games.
However, that said, I do find playing HU really healps when in the money in a SNG as my number of wins has increased dramatically whilst the number of seconds has fallen.
wheee! big downswing right off a cliff.
I don't play HU but I wonder that's the thing about it. So much action it would be hard to adjust to games with more players where you would have to fold more.
Player is A gambler in a casino.
Of course you had better consider the june selecting anteceding concluding
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