Posted Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:20 am GMT by Far East
I think I really need help when playing heads up. It seems as though me and my opponent are always tied in chips and then like 90% of the hands are just one of us limps in and then we check it all the way to the end. Occaisionally Ill play agressively, but I dont feel very comfortable with it.
Can anyone just share how they play heads up, and what strategies they use.
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Posted Sun Oct 10, 2004 11:27 am GMT by Fat Tony
heads-up play is a totally different animal than playing with multiple opponents. you need to loosen up your starting hand requirements as well as generally be a more aggressive when you do decide to play a hand.
Posted Sun Oct 10, 2004 12:25 pm GMT by Geno
Some tips:
1) Never call the BB from the SB, always raise it.
2) If your opponent calls your BB, raise it, don't check.
3) Play every Ax, Kx, Qx, pocket pair and suited connector hand hard
4) As a rule - check if u hit something on the flop, bet if u miss
5) Mix up your play, don't play the same hands the same way despite wot I advised in 1-4 
Confused?
Posted Sun Oct 10, 2004 5:47 pm GMT by Jauron
It partly depends on your chip stack, if you have the big stack, you really have to hammer the short stack, if your the short stack you have to be ultra agressive and hope to double up soon when you get any sort of hand.
If it's even I usually start slow and build. I'll limp into the first couple of pots to see what they do, if they allow me to limp, I know they need cards to raise, if they raise it each time I know they will raise with anything...now I try to use that information against them.
Raise with any Ace, raise almost any King, play the flops agressive when you have position, otherwise play it fast if you have any part of the flop without position.
Mix it up then, once you establish your patterne, change it. Eventually the harder you or he pushes the looser the game will get, now you have to make sure your in control still, be agressive, don't however get stubborn with a hand.
Posted Mon Nov 01, 2004 1:16 pm GMT by boroman
Hi,
this question is in relation to Geno's post where Geno gives the best approach to a Heads Up situation. Geno says that if your opppnenet (in the SB) just calls the big blind then you should raise. My question - what do you do if your opponent raises from the SB and you are holding say J 7 offsuit?
The reason I ask is that we had another home game last Saturday night - had 3 tournies - each of them were 10 euro in - 7 players - with first picking up 60 euros and second taking 10 euros. Managed to get to the heads up situation in both the first two tournies but only got second on each occasion. On each occasion my opponents kept raising me from the small blind when I had poor hands. I suppose my question is, what hand would be good enough to call or raise with if my opponent has raised to say a quarter of my stack. At this tage I am way too inexperienced for tells, so basically I have no idea what he holds.
Any help anyone?
Posted Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:07 am GMT by nicthestick
you only need to resteal like one in 4 to make it worth while..... so PUSHIN OVER THE TOP.
Posted Tue Nov 02, 2004 1:20 am GMT by wEbMaStEr
| Geno wrote: | Some tips:
1) Never call the BB from the SB, always raise it.
2) If your opponent calls your BB, raise it, don't check.
3) Play every Ax, Kx, Qx, pocket pair and suited connector hand hard
4) As a rule - check if u hit something on the flop, bet if u miss
5) Mix up your play, don't play the same hands the same way despite wot I advised in 1-4
Confused? |
These rules should be followed at every opportunity.
especially rule 5!
Never say never.
to start heads up i will fold a few rag small blinds to the bb just to let him know that i'm not going to be playing rags..... then i start raising with rags!
if i pick up 2 big cards i will often call his bb because i want him to connect to something soi get paid off.
if my opp is constantly raising my bb i will, as nicthestick says, let him do it a few times and then push back. The one time i do that should pay for all the blinds he stole.
similiarly if you want to be raising his bb a lot only make it 2x or 3x bb to go. so when he pushes back he isn't getting value.
Heads up is often a feeling of the situation.sometimes you get it right sometimes you get it wrong, but if you are confusing your opponant so he cannot put you on a hand or cannot anticipate your next move, you have the advantage.
I find the most important thing in heads up is, do not let your opponant dictate when you are going to put all your chips in, you should be making him make a decision for all his chips, not the other way around.
If you are short stacked, be aggressive, similiarly if you are chip leader, be aggressive.  only time to be passive is when things are about level, thisis the time when you want to try make a big hand that you can take value from, but at the same time you don't want to be throwing in too many chips.
God, i just confused myself now 
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