Hey I'm a Live NL player with limited HU experience. I've been good enough to have an edge vs players at the end of tourneys and SnGs and done well in these spots but I would like to improve. I basically double the blind in position and fold most OOP. I was looking (not very hard) for a basic strategy list of some sort or some simple rules to follow to get me moving in the right direction. Sorry if I missed it but if anyone could make a list or redirect me to one I would appreciate it greatly! Thanks in advance

Woops read through the 'read before posting' sticky but somehow missed general questions one, admin plz redirect this post. Apologies for the mistake.

read some threads in HUNL, read through this thread will prob be helpful, get a training site membership. idk which are the best these days but i think the deucescracked wiltontilt videos where they go thru every player type would be helpful. DC isnt the most advanced site these days but it would prob help u.

start with minraising 85% of buttons, and playing around 60% oop. adjust ur button % according to opponent tendencies, and adjust ur oop % based on their raise size, how often they raise the button, and how comfortable you get playing oop HUNL.

Is it possible to turn off PAF-Heart (Microgaming) achievements?
And is it possible to turn on 4 colors card display there?

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How about window size - is it possible to change that?
Everything is so small as a default, yet the mouse arrow doesn't change at the edge of the window into something that'd resize it.
(Still talking about PAF Heart / Microgaming)

Here's a maths question.

Pot is 74bb. Hero and Villain have 63bb behind. Hero is OOP (BB). Basically, playing the river in a 3bet pot.

How much equity does Hero's hand need to have before any betting commences (so against whole SB's range) in order for him to go all in with it for value ("to be good half the time when called")?

We assume villain's calling frequency wants to make Hero indifferent to bluffing. So he's calling with something like top 55% of his range or thereabout.

Villain is calling with the top 54% of his range (very slight rounding: the actual figure is 54.01%). Our hand needs to be ahead of at least half of that, or a total of 27%. We'd have >= 73% equity vs. villain's entire range.

TY, Rei!

Is NL100 HU and higher running on Microgaming?
I see they got some anon tables, and the only NL100 seems to be Rush type (they call it Blaze) with noone really playing.

yes the anon HU tables run all the time

Hey Rei, I got a similar question here:

We are on the river and we bet $100 into $100 pot with the appropiate bluff/value ratio and villain reraises to $300 total and he is all in. We cover.

1) How often do we have to call to make his bluffs indifferent? He is basically betting $300 into $200 pot - does this mean we have to continue 40% of the time ?

2) And if its 40%, should we call with the top 40% of our entire range or just top 40% of our initial valuebetting range (which by definition is top 40% of our bluffcathers) ?

1) Mostly correct. In practice, blockers often change (increase) the required %.

2) Entire range. Nitpick: it'd be 40%, but it doesn't have to be the top 40% as ranked by SD value--a hand with good blocker properties somewhere in the 40%-66.7% band might be superior to some of the hands in the top 40%.

Cool, tx a lot and what about when we are on the river and villain bets (as a 3rd barrel) all-in $300 into $200 pot and our range is ~80% bluffcathers+ and ~20% busted draws? Should we also continue with 40% of our entire range or this spot is different and we must continue with only top 40% of our bluffcatchers?

entire range, have another look at the indifference equation for villain.

What is the best site for US players as far as rakeback and traffic. I use to love merge but now with lower traffic and crappier heads up leaderboard it seems like there should be a better option then 10-15% rakeback and no bonuses really for not high stakes.

Im just beginning to start playing on Bovada poker heads up micro stakes cash and my question is are there any good videos or topics in general for playing without a HUD? Or general strategy for playing vs anonymous players.

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How's the rake at hu cap tables? is it worth playing 50nl and 100nl hu cap or is the rake too much? Also what's the fish to reg ratio at those games?

I'm watching pr1nnyraiding series on dueces cracked and I see hand ranges thrown around a lot, and I get the concept that villian/hero can always be assigned a different range depending on a situation or scenario but how do you make your own for example starting off like a go to range of hands before any history in a hu match. Krantz lays one out in the beginning of the episode but it seems a lot tighter than I like to play or am comfortable with. But at the same time don't want to open 100% all the time either. Also any good articles on hand ranges/deconstructing hand ranges would be awesome.

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pr1nnyraiding had ranges that were waaaayyyyy too tight, but back then people played so terribly that it didn't matter. some of the content in the vids will be useful, while some of it will not because it is quite outdated.

if you have a deuces cracked membership then i suggest you watch some of WiltOnTilt's videos. I think G-man made some videos aswell, which i enjoyed at the time, but i can't remember the content really.

They have load of 6-max theory series' in the last couple of years aswell. I watched a bit of the 'Progress' series, which was a Hand History analysis series, and i thought it was quite good.

Yeah I realized watching that first EP the ranges are super tight but I'm still finding quite a bit of it useful. I just did the 7 day free trial and scooped up as many hu bids as I can from wiltontilt and 2fourosuite. I'm going to actually stick with the subscription once I get some extra cash for mpi love the videos!

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Hi BH4L, I posted in your other thread but regarding the HU content, the pr1nnyraiding series were ok for a base level of understanding and/or framework but the games have changed so drastically since then that you really want to be playing/implementing things a lot differently (basically more loose in every situation).

Be sure to look at the dates of the videos and focus more on recent content for implementing ideas. The older stuff is OK for generic strategy/game plan stuff.

Hello y'all. Quick question from a non-poker player who has recently taken interest in the game. After a few days spent perusing these forums, it seems that virtually everyone has an overwhelmingly negative outlook on the possibility of a new player ever becoming profitable. So, humor me.

Assuming I start poker playing heads up at 20NL, and play/study 40 (maybe a good amount more) hours per week, is it possible to give even a ballpark estimate of how long it would take to become profitable at each stake? For example, how long to go from scratch to winning at 20NL, 50NL, 100NL, 200NL?

Has even a single person in the last few years started playing and became a big winner?

Thanks for taking the time to read/respond to my questions.

Edit: I read through WiltonTilt's Roadblocks to learning poker ebook, going through poker math that matters now, and I am also reading Wil Tipton's Expert HUNL, planning to get volume 2 when it comes out.

I understand its outdated but still find it useful for a general guideline for a few things. I'm currently watching a few of your mentor video series on DC they are great!

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its really tough to say. im sure there are new players that have and will become successful, just the bar keeps getting raised for what it takes to get there. if you work really hard at it and are smart about game selection, tilt control, bankroll mgmt, how you study, i dont see why you couldnt move up. i mean no offense to any1 playing lower out there but i dont think theres a single player playing 200nl and lower than i dont have at the very least a 12bb/100 edge on (and that would be the absolute best 200nl reg if so). So my point is theres plenty of room to learn and edges to be had, and those games are def crushable. you also need to take advantage of rakeback because rake is tough to beat the lower you go. and while you're learning and getting the hang of things dont bother playing "regs" there, grow your roll until you get to 100nl or 200nl.

if you have a great work ethic and you're a natural talent, assuming you have no prior HUNL experience and limited poker experience in general:

20NL: 3mo

100nl: 5mo

200nl: 7mo

400nl: 1yr

1k: 2yrs

2k+: 2yrs+ if possible for that person.