Any one play HU on bovada? I ran a 1k bank roll up to 2200 and than just lost 10 buy ins last night getting coolered and running terrible. (NL50)

Pretty upset right now haha

I played a guy who bought in for $25 and won every hand for about 40 hands straight. He ended up winning over $200 from me.

Most notable hand from the session that tilt me was this.

I 3bet KJo in BB. jack is a spade

AK3ss
I bet $6 into $12
He raises to $12. I call as I don't see him having many combos of hands that have me beat and I don't see him doing this with Ax - looks like he has a flush draw. Turn is a Qs giving me a nut flush draw to go along with my Js.
He shoves for $20 more and I call and he flips over JTo LOL.

I'm not sure if I should just fold that flop or shove all in but that hand really pissed me off. He had a 15% chance to hit that card - 8% to hit it on the turn - and he just gets there like he did all game long. Do you just quit players that are running god against you?

After that he won almost every hand. I looked back in my database and saw that he had a monster almost every hand as you can see hands on bovada. I was frustrated.

Depends if they're a fish or not. It gets to a point where you're never going to get your money back though. Once you go down like 5 buy ins once you win 1 or 2 back they're going to quit you a lot. It's better to just cut your losses sometimes.

Ya I hear ya. I managed to win back a lot of what I lost the other day as my hands held up. I think I need to learn a stop loss because losing $500 of a $2200 bankroll in 1 day is unacceptable.

My thought was I don't need this money so if I lose it all it won't mater but I still don't want to have to redeposit another $1,000 to keep playing the same stakes. I am playing to make $$$ not to screw around and blow a random $1,000 because I running bad (possibly playing bad - hard to tell) and didn't quit.

Learning to stop loss would be a great tool. I think if I lose 2 buy ins to a fish I should just quit him as when fish start winning they seem to play better and it's even harder to get your money back.

But when fish lose they play way crazy and worse. Must be human emotion because I was playing one guy who dropped like 2 or 3 stacks to me and he started opening for like 12x every hand and I could tell he was really tilted. Needless to say I stacked him again and he quit.

Hello there!

First of all say that I am Spanish and use a translator, please excuse my English but NLHU Spain is not as successful.

I want to start playing HU and I have about 450 € -800 € banking.

I wonder if I get to play on ipoker profitable starting from nl10 or would be better to play short handed yegar at least € 2k bench to play directly in NL50?

thanks before hand!

trying to start at NL50 would be better. the rake at NL10 is really big in terms of big blinds/100

is much difference in heads up sit & go to no limit heads up?

I say start with sit & go to take banking to NL50

scroll this thread up pls, you'll find plenty of info on this topic

I used to play lots of heads up on Bovada and ran into the same situation several times where the fish run like God. A stop loss is definitely the way to go. If I lost 3 buy-ins, I would quit and go play a dollar sit and go to relieve some frustration. But if you really feel like you have an edge on your opponent, you should stay and get your money back. All you need is one really good bet sizing tell and they are toast. Other than that I just run. lol You seem like a pretty solid player from your posts. No doubt it will happen from time to time, but you will make money in the long run bro. Don't let it get you down bro, good luck!

What would your recommendation (plan) be on Bovada starting with a 200 dollar bankroll to get to higher stakes to play HU?

I've recently moved up to ~140NL on HU cash and SNGs (swedish site) and the action there is pretty dry so most of my volume is lower stakes atm and I feel it's time to expand my networks.

So I'm looking in to different sites to take my money to I mainly want a softish site with good rb on bonus deals, I've been lurking on some of the euro sites and party poker and see how many tables of 0.5/1 is running and of the few I've looked in to it seems that Titan poker have most tables running and also a good bonus and rb deal. Sites like stars just seem so bumhunt heavy that I'm pretty sure that I won't go there.

Thanks for all the help I can get =).

What is a standard downswing for a decentish reg at HU 50nl?

Obviously post flop skills are hugely important for these games, and 180 man players and sng players in general often lack post flop skills. My question is how would a decent 2$ 180 grinder get on at these stakes ?

50nl seems quite high for players just starting out at HU cash , do players generally start at these stakes or do they start with micro HU hypers and transition into the cash format?

Looked over a good few pages and couldnt seem to find these questions, apologies if thev been asked before.

Hypers are probably not the way to go. Closest would be reg speed so there's lot's of postflop action and you start with a decent sized stack. Hypers are a very different game.

Advice often given is to grind HUSNGs until the roll is enough to support 50nl, but the skills that will translate the best IMO are going to get better at deeper stacked reg speed HUSNGs.

I'm looking to get into HU poker. Where/how should I start to learn HU?

Start with the 2-5 cent games and crush em for a while. Maybe start with 2 tables and move up from there. Once you double your roll, move up to 5-10...etc etc.....

HUSNG.com is a great place to start. Search through the posts on here too. Try to get most of your advice on here from the players that have many posts and have been posting for years. that's a good start...

Just some of Berbwire from HUSNG on Youtube. I'm wondering if its possible to get a simple HU HUD like that or anything similar.

First, don't open 100%. If you see someone is opening 100% pf, widen your 3bet range.
You should be raising around 75-85%. Polarizing the ranges is always the best option. So you would be limping 15-25% with middle cards.
But if you want to, you could still raise your top 75% and limp bottom 25%.
Expand as to why you thin you only need to open 50% of btns and why you think you should be getting at least 50% folds.

http://www.husng.com/content/coffeehud-lite
Free version of CoffeeHUD

1. How often should I defend my BB, Is around 60% a good starting point with maybe a 21% 3bet %?

2. What are some good fundamental hunl video series (that answer questions like this)?

1. It depends (on his Pre Flop Raise range and the raise size, for a typical 75% and 3x. 60% is way too wide. You should be folding Kx, low Ax and so on. Your calling range should around 20-25%. 3Bet should be around 5-10%.

no

Smithers, release the hounds.

Little girls must be able to play like little girls. Who let the dogs out? Rei you mother****er, tie em up.

I'm just learning HU NL. As a total newbie, should I avoid limping BTNs and just raise or fold? Against the average donk on bovada 5NL I'm opening up 66% on my BTN and folding the rest.

Play more hands on the button. If you are not comfortable opening 100%, then at least 85% - 90%.

While limping may not necessarily be a "mistake", it probably makes more sense to simply raise all the hands that you want to play. When you have a limping range and a raising range, you need to think about balancing those ranges, so you make your life harder.