great review spam....once again, like i said in the husng reg thread a few days ago, your reviews and the videos from mers and primo on husngcom really revolutionilzed my game, esp with shallower effective stacks. I feel 10x more confident now, and my results have drastically changed for the better. I'm out of the BE stretch now, and made like something around 35 buyins in last 10 days or something woohooo. Thanks again, i really appreciate your reviews.

Glad to hear man, keep crushing! =)

Nice job Spamz...and fun little match this evening Maruchan

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

trying to win every pot is really a huge leak fwiw, it's soooo super ez to play vs someone unless you fail at hitting ANY piece of the board really; trust me, there's some regs like that out there and they get raped by the better ones hard if you ask me

there's no point really in trying to win every pot; if you defend a slightly more marginal hand like Q5hh or smth there's no shame in c/f'ing a decent amount of flops... stop repping every ****ing hand possible, it's so obv

the only reason you would ever want to do this is vs a weak opponent who easily calls 1 or 2 barrels but almost always folds river without two pair+ or smth ridic


high stakes players are not partic passive, more like - as bluemage'd say - selective agressive =)
where does edge come from? a lot of different things, all pretty small but can be couple %s roi when added up; things like bluffing%, bluffcalling in certain spots, thin valuebetting, endgame math, range balancing, not tilting, not trying to win every pot, etc.

Okay, so really it's a game of small edges and exploiting them to the fullest? That's good to keep in mind....I generally try to get a good 3:1 chip lead before pushing people PF, and when that doesn't happen, I tend to panic. Thanks for assuring me that there's no need to panic. =)

Hand 25. what is the bottom of heros 4bet jamming range here A6s/A7o K9s/KTo+. 22+? Or its too wide?

I would be jamming pretty wide over my 3bet range, but as Spamz said, even though I had been 3betting a decent % there was no need to get too loose just yet because he had no prior reads on my 3bet range... Id imagine if he knew a little more about my game that he would be very close to jamming this hand...