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I just can't seem to finsh off Heads up sit and gos. I start off well and get a 1 to2 chip lead, say 2000 to 1000 than I try to push all in which goes bad than the blides go up and before I know I bloody lose can some help me please
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Posted by virtuajulian: I just can't seem to finsh off Heads up sit and gos. I start off well and get a 1 to2 chip lead, say 2000 to 1000 than I try to push all in which goes bad than the blides go up and before I know I bloody lose can some help me please
the key in the heads up, is trying to be the aggressor, and be clear about the range of hands to play according to the level of aggressiveness of the opponent.
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Posted by shokaku: Don't push to light. With 1000 to 2000 chips there is still enough room to play some poker after the flop.
I agree, you have too small of an advantage to push, you're not in the position buddy... When u have 3.5k and he has 500, or that proportion, you can start stealing his blinds and such.
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Posted by virtuajulian: I just can't seem to finsh off Heads up sit and gos. I start off well and get a 1 to2 chip lead, say 2000 to 1000 than I try to push all in which goes bad than the blides go up and before I know I bloody lose can some help me please
learn more from the pros, look for pokerstrategies which may fit your style of play as well as the type of game ur playing...
i try to trap the other player instead of raising with a good hand like AA, i just call hope for him to push b4 flop this works most of the time for me heads up
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What stakes and were are you playing ?
If you go all in with junk he will know you are empty ... just raise the blinds 3x or 4x and it will be much harder for him to call that then an all in. And if he goes over the top you know he has good cards and still can get away ...
I understand you ... yesterday i lost a hu 14000 vs 1000 and blinds 100/200. Incredible! Pushing all the time with crap. Obviously I was calling with marginal cards or better cards: no way. Everytime he doubled-up and the final hand: AdQc (me) vs AcQh and ... obviously 4 hearts on board. HU are not my speciality as well
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Posted by virtuajulian: I just can't seem to finsh off Heads up sit and gos. I start off well and get a 1 to2 chip lead, say 2000 to 1000 than I try to push all in which goes bad than the blides go up and before I know I bloody lose can some help me please
Is it that you are just losing your patience when the blinds go up? There is plenty of play to go in heads up, even with high blinds
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when like that i will just eat away at them i dont like to call all ins unless i have a good hand, i dont want to double them up its easy to make a come back so i just eat away at them. if they go all in with 500 i still like a decent A or a pair because i just dont want them back to 1k keep them desperate to double up then call them with a nice hand this may seem a little tight for HU but it tends to work for me
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Posted by RMBKK:
Posted by shokaku: Don't push to light. With 1000 to 2000 chips there is still enough room to play some poker after the flop.
I agree, you have too small of an advantage to push, you're not in the position buddy... When u have 3.5k and he has 500, or that proportion, you can start stealing his blinds and such.
I agree, HU SNG is one of my strongest games, I should stick to it but I can only play so many in a row, but it is one of the few aspects of my game that I am a winning long term player one. I'd be a winner if I only played HU SNG
My advice is to be the agressor but when you're 2:1 and blinds aren't too heavy the last thing you want to be doing is shoving pre-flop, you're opponent will just wait fold away plenty of hands for minimal blinds and then call you with AK vs your Aj and next thing you know its 2000:1000 he's way and you tilt shove again, he call light with 88 vs your tilty A 6 and you dont hit game over.
NO NO NO
my adivce is play agressive and dont start stealing blinds until they're worth stealing. If you're good and can consitently get in a 2:1 chip lead then keep playing the same. Now I've found once opponent is very low stacked, let him become the aggressor.. he'll start shoving really light, cause he starts losing respect for he's stack, just fold fold fold CALL AA /ty
or if you get AK or something and you're small blind, you have 2500 chips opponent has 500 chips, blinds 30/60 and you're sb, then just complete it, let him either shove and you call, or see the flop and if you hit, just check/raise, check all streets if nessacary waiting for his donk bet.. And if you dont hit then DO NOT try and bluff the pot, it's not worth it, there'll be better spots and an opponent will likely call mid pair if they're short stacked in HU SNG.
Let them make the mistakes in the late game when you're in a good lead
If the blinds start getting really high and you're both sitting fairly even, then it's time to be the one doing the shoving/riasing.. high blinds count for a LOT in a HU SNG and you can't be too picky about your hands..
Try and avoid this though, best done by NOT playing speed/turbo SNGs.. Try and playing minimum of 5min blinds and pref with 2000 starting stack, not 1500...
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Posted by jessthehuman:
Posted by RMBKK:
Posted by shokaku: Don't push to light. With 1000 to 2000 chips there is still enough room to play some poker after the flop.
I agree, you have too small of an advantage to push, you're not in the position buddy... When u have 3.5k and he has 500, or that proportion, you can start stealing his blinds and such.
I agree, HU SNG is one of my strongest games, I should stick to it but I can only play so many in a row, but it is one of the few aspects of my game that I am a winning long term player one. I'd be a winner if I only played HU SNG
My advice is to be the agressor but when you're 2:1 and blinds aren't too heavy the last thing you want to be doing is shoving pre-flop, you're opponent will just wait fold away plenty of hands for minimal blinds and then call you with AK vs your Aj and next thing you know its 2000:1000 he's way and you tilt shove again, he call light with 88 vs your tilty A 6 and you dont hit game over.
NO NO NO
my adivce is play agressive and dont start stealing blinds until they're worth stealing. If you're good and can consitently get in a 2:1 chip lead then keep playing the same. Now I've found once opponent is very low stacked, let him become the aggressor.. he'll start shoving really light, cause he starts losing respect for he's stack, just fold fold fold CALL AA /ty
or if you get AK or something and you're small blind, you have 2500 chips opponent has 500 chips, blinds 30/60 and you're sb, then just complete it, let him either shove and you call, or see the flop and if you hit, just check/raise, check all streets if nessacary waiting for his donk bet.. And if you dont hit then DO NOT try and bluff the pot, it's not worth it, there'll be better spots and an opponent will likely call mid pair if they're short stacked in HU SNG.
Let them make the mistakes in the late game when you're in a good lead
If the blinds start getting really high and you're both sitting fairly even, then it's time to be the one doing the shoving/riasing.. high blinds count for a LOT in a HU SNG and you can't be too picky about your hands..
Try and avoid this though, best done by NOT playing speed/turbo SNGs.. Try and playing minimum of 5min blinds and pref with 2000 starting stack, not 1500...
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Hi virtuajulian.
In HU, we don´t want go allin preflop if we have more chips than the other player (except monsters and some pp, of course). Agression + flop game. With a big stack you can easily steal in flop. Try to play low pots.
