Online Poker Forum - HU suggestion please?

Philbird1 · Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 11:04 am Post subject: HU suggestion please?

I'm pretty reluctant to play HU for part of the mastering the bubble task. I often play tight and therefore get run over by aggressive players.
So my question is which would you suggest I start at. I have watched the video on HU, but at lower stakes a lot of players will play any hand they get very aggressively.
FL
PL
NL

TY
Just realized you have to play NL for the task..... but I tried fixed for a start.

hhspartan53 · High Card Joined: 01 Apr 2008 Posts: 12

With HU the value of a hand is greatly increased. A Full table has 9-10 different hands on one table. With HU you have only two people with a hand, so pre-flop any ace and any pocket pair is solid. Suited face cards are dominating pre flop as well. If you want to play more HU raise often because they chance your opponent has a stellar hand is marginal. That is pre-flop, once the flop hits it is all about being unpredictable. You mention you play tight, if a player knows you are going to play tight HU he will run you over. By throwing a couple semi-bluff 1/2-3/4 pot bets will keep you in it. Cause remember your opponent probably will not hit his hand every time, so throwing those bets out are minimal risks to take down pots and keep you in it to take down the big one.

NoTilt · Four of a Kind Joined: 16 Apr 2009 Posts: 296

Google "SAGE system". There's a great article in Card Player magazine that teaches you how to play HU fairly robotically once you get down to the shortest stack having <7BB. If you can double one number, add two numbers, and compare two numbers to see which is higher, you can use SAGE easily. Other than that, you have to get a 'feel' for HU tournament play. Like the challenge says, it's good practice for when you're HU in a SnG.

Philbird1 · Posted: Thu Sep 17, 2009 5:20 pm Post subject:

TY both! Really!

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