Hey spamz,
Just a couple general HU questions, if you don't mind, since you seem to be pretty knowledgable about them.
I've been reading a few of these HH reviews you've been doing (awesome, by the way), and they completely contradict the way I've previously thought about HU. Though I've only played the lowest stakes available to me ($2+0.20 PS SNG), my general train of thought has been something along the lines of try to take every pot unless given a reason not to. So I'll minraise a lot on the button and even into flat calls (which are surprisingly common at those stakes), c-bet close to 100% of the time, likely, and typically try to make people believe that every hand is the one I caught something on. Now, obviously, this won't work at any higher stakes (heck, I'm barely break-even on the $2 level), but I used to think it had some value in it.
However, after seeing some of these games you've been reviewing, I see that many higher-stakes players tend to play pretty passively, taking shots when they feel the time is right as opposed to always trying to have their opponent on the defensive, as I used to. On the other hand, it seems like these matches tend to be back-and-forth fairly evenly until people just start pushing at slightly-higher blinds. How can a player get a decent ROI when it seems like most matches come down to a simple coinflip?
It's this question that somewhat brings me back to my strategy, because (depending on the accuracy of my reads and the luck of the draw in general) I tend to either dominate my matches or lose chips slowly and drag it out, making it tough for people to eliminate me. This could be because I rarely see preflop jamming wars in the stakes I play, whereas they seem fairly common in these games.
Anyway, just that one question, I guess, and any comments on these observations would be much appreciated.
-']['heRaven
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