Is HU small stakes on stars, are they soft fields, easily profitable?

Anyone whos reg can give me some details into this as i am considering this, as i've herd some things about the poor HU play on stars


Cheers, skeez.

Sorry, had a look but couldn't see it.

John Nash's original paper "Equilibrium points in N-Person Games" is a bit too involved (and not about poker), and it was whoever originally applied it to poker covered the ATC situation, but I can't remember who it was. It was mainly just a brief mention in the intro - their main concern was developing the range vs range equilibrium point that gives us the Nash tables we have now.

Have a look at university of Alberta's poker research group (http://poker.cs.ualberta.ca/) - a lot of their masters & PhD theses are published online and there's some good stuff to be found.

If it happens in a vaccum:
By calling all hands which has more then 45% equity is going to maximize our EV ((9bb to call/20 to win) = 0,45% to be BE). At 20bb it is 47,5% (19 to win 40).

If is iterative, and we are playing a continues game we can give up some equity, to gain more later on. There is a link somewhere, which solves the math behind that.

If we can play the same villain again and again, with same conditions, then calling hands with 45% and 47,5% equity respectively will be max EV.

do you guys use hem2 beta or just regular hem? Is there a difference in regards to tracking husng?

HEM2 tracks for different speeds I believe.

HEM does so to, now.

I want to give husngs a try and I am wondering what stakes to start at with $100 roll? same question for $200 budget.

I really don't mind having a 10-15% risk or ruin btw.

let's hear it
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edited: my xp with husngs is limited, under 200 games online; most knowledge comes from shorthanded cash games

I've only played HUSNG's randomly but I'd start at $5's both w/ $100 and $200.

edit: I can't imagine losing 20 buyins in a row at those if you're even somewhat decent at poker unless there's some serious variance involved in which case it's not that hard to cough up another $100.

I play on stars, and I would recommend you to start with 3.5$ and if start with 200$ as soon as you feel comfortable in 3.5s move to 7s they are practically the same. If you start with 100$ play 3.5 till reach 140 and go play 7s.

Hi... Is SnG Wizard good for super tubro push/fold analyze?

Don't know anything about sngwiz but Insane Steves Endgame calculator shoud do the same http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/18...ulator-662586/

In pt3 I can see all in ev for tournaments if I select hands played and winnings in chips.
What can I tell from this? if I am 10k chips under ev and I start tournament with 1,5k so can I assume that I am 6-7 bi under ev or I cant make such concluson?

Wow, I've never looked at any of that stuff before (didn't make much sense back when I mostly played limit).

I'm actually running over EV!

I wonder which is better for us to look at: winnings in chips or winnings in BB? I look like less of a luckbox if we go by bb's...

I was also surprised to see my non-sd winnings on a sharp decline. Is that normal? Here I thought I was stealing a ton of pots and playing like a balla.

Who has music on when playing the pokers?
Do you think it can disturb concentration?

I find music helps me a lot and doesn't distract me much at all and it keeps my energy up and I'm able to grind more games whereas if I am just sitting there in silence I get bored and play not as good and get fed up and play less games. Music is +EV for me IMO.

Very confused about this. A lot of people say you need to focus, but without it it does become boring, especially in reg speeds. Is there a way to improve focus while listening to music?

I place the level of the music high enough so random sounds in background do not disturb my attention that hard when my focus drops for a certain timeframe while grinding.
I prefer some trance, house, to get blood pumping.
But I also do not put the music that load that it starts grabbing your attention.
And such I end up with putting the sound that high that you actually need to do a little effort to completely follow the music.

is it worth it to grind the hu sng at ongame ? rake seems pretty high but i have good rakeback or is ipoker the way to go?

What would be your best strategy to rebuild working from a 1000$ roll ? assuming you beat sng up to 200

ps: im a cashgame player so i dont know much, thats why im asking dumb questions

ps2: risk of ruin need to be 0%

is there any skype groups around for micro hu sng players??


also how do you guys adjust vs loose passive villains who seem to never fold &never miss flop... are we double barreling two face card flops to get them off 2nd n third pairs & A highs or just never betting without a hand??

how do you guys adjust vs them?

Try valuebetting when you haz a hand. Don't go crazy with bluffs, as LP's will call down 3rd pair all day long.

Playing vs passive people is very easy. You bet everything that's ahead of their calling-range and give up with crap. If you bluff you often have to 2-barrel or 3-barrel. If villain doesn't even fold his Ahi/bottom pair to 3 barrels you can start 3barreling SPGK for value.

Also: if a lot of draws have missed OTR and you have crap, bet like 1/5 pot to make villain fold his better crap.


@saxophone: there is no strategy with a 0% ror. You can make it very small by moving down if you have to though. Try looking into Kelly criterium if you have some maths background, then you can figure out a BRM-plan that suits you. If not: search the stickys for BRM-threads.

Hi people!

Sorry for the attention-grabber title

However lately I'm really feel like start grinding these low limit HyperTurbos at Pokerstars.

I have 2 reasons: - they're the fastest form of poker online and even a 2% ROI would be gold! - Get massive FP points. --> Supernova

I've read the "motivational thread" started some days ago and I've found that there are many of you who are profiting really nice!

Said that, would you please give me some pieces of advice to start grinding them?

What's your strategy? (Push-Fold according to Nash?)

Thanks in advance

PS. I will play the low limits HU so I will need only a break even strat!

Read the STT thread.

another question about these loose passives who never fold & call everything


-what is your 3betting range vs them?

-also how to play 3bet pots o.o.p vs them with 50-75bb stacks since cbetting with air vs them is somewhat -ev

- also & most importantly is limping buttons with playable hands & raising all good value hands like pairs, broadways & Ax hands fine vs them?.. like if i get j-8o or something similar like a k-2s can i limp those instead of raising?... i find cbetting is just futile & my position n ability to read board texture etc dont help...


^^ responses needed as im having the most trouble vs these aggro fishes or loose passives who dont fold ever in life & my aggro tendencies making me loose vs them grr

PokerStars No-Limit Hold'em, 7 Tournament, 10/20 Blinds (2 handed) - Poker Hand Converter from PokerConverter.com

saw flop

SB (t1500)
Hero (BB) (t1500)

Hero's M: 50.00

Preflop: Hero is BB with A, 4
SB bets t40, Hero calls t20

Flop: (t80) 7, Q, 5 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets t60, Hero raises to t160, SB calls t100

Turn: (t400) 9 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets t120, Hero folds

Total pot: t400

^^ things like this is a big nono vs them right?...