whats the proper adjustment to someone playing open raising 75% and cbetting 90%. 25-50 deep

I "know" that those are super exploitable tendencies but he plays well enough that just going mad C/Ring doesn't seem to work. My c/c become super weak and I just get 3x barreled to death.

when reviewing a session is the specific scenarios i should filter for or should i just go through every hand? also what am i looking for?

Hi,

Can you recommend some HUSNG blog here at 2+2?

Thanks,
andrys1988

I play on bovada so there anonymous tables so am I making the wrong play by 3b
My bb for the 1 st level to get a read on my opponent

Hi there, i'm am an Italian guy (sorry 4 my english).
i'm a mtt player but for work in real life i have to switch to other type of game.
and i like the HU sng. i want to start at 5€ turbo level (rake is 9.9%) whit 20 by.
Have u any suggetion? it's right the bankroll management?
thank's and GL

Bitchibee, preflop that isn't super exploitable. Even 25bb deep if they're just opening 75% and not limping then there isn't that much you can do to exploit them, unless they're raising to more than 2bb. For cbetting a lot, you can check/raise more but not a ton. Just check/raise medium to good top pairs, some bluffs/draws, and very rarely like 2nd pair good kicker or bottom pair good kicker if you want to be balanced (definitely don't go overboard with this though, it's better to not check/raise bottom pair or 2nd pair at all than to check/raise them a lot). With your strongest hands that aren't vulnerable you can check/call or check/raise depending on which he's most aggressive vs. if he's 3barreling you a lot you should check/call all your strong value that isn't very vulnerable (even including top pair if it's like Qx on Q84r).

When he does check back try to play pretty aggressive vs it. Don't spew, but bet ~pot or so with value and some bluffs, and if he delay cbets a lot you can check/raise some value and bluffs too. If you bet pot on turn and get called you can bet pot or you can barrel river smaller depending on how thick your value is.

gard0pokr, I think it's best to review entire tournaments and look through every hand. You can mark hands while you're playing and look through those too. With what you're looking for, there's a lot of things. Are there spots that you autopilot or don't feel like you know what you're doing? Often people play OK in the most obvious/simple spots (bet-bet-shoving IP or check-calling down) but play very exploitably in the more complicated, less common spots (like when they check-call the flop, and the turn goes check-check).

doctorflush, yeah I don't think 3betting for reads is a good play. You don't learn much if they fold or call, if they 4bet you might learn they're a bit more aggressive but you learned it at a very high price. Just 3bet hands that are good to 3bet. Assuming you're talking about deepstack play, as a general rule most offsuit hands aren't good 3bets unless they're strong value, with suited hands you can 3bet more of them but random suited hands like J6s are still usually not great 3bets.


L1keTheWat3r, your bankroll management sounds good but that rake sounds way too high.

Can you elaborate on this a bit more? What do you mean by strong value?

@307th

on stars.it is 9% for hyperturbo and spin&go. For micro level.. any suggestion?

Hi all,

I've pretty much decided I want to specialise in SNGs as I find cash games a bit boring. But am wondering which direction to take that in.

So out of the following, which would you say is the best/easiest to build a bank roll. Bonus points for ranking them in order:

Spins
HU standard/turbo
HU hypers
6/9 man SNG
18 man SNG
Any other weird and wonderful formats I haven't tried or don't know about (e.g. Fifty50)

I am weighted towards the shorter formats as I tend to play in small 30-60 minute bursts, but don't discount the other formats though as I'm willing to change that if it makes profitability easier/larger.

Thanks in advance!

TheAfterman, probably HU standard/turbos are the best since they are very low variance and so you can use much more aggressive BRM than in other formats. Something like 20-30 buyins is fine for HU regspeed/turbos as long as you move down as soon as you go below your required buyin #. For hypers it's more like 50-75 buyins and i think spins/multi-man SNGs all need even more buyins although i'm not sure.

Of course if you're starting a format you should probably use a more conservative brm than 20-30 since your winrate won't be that high to start.

Something like KTo+, A9o+, QJo. I wouldn't necessarily say those are must-3B hands btw, especially vs a tight player it could make sense to flat a lot of them. But 3betting looser than that is probably a mistake at least readless. Although I'm very inexperienced with deeper stacks so I could be wrong about htis.


On stars' main site it's 4% for $1.50 hyperturbo and 2.9% for $3.50. Are you sure you're doing the math right? If you have to play on one of pokerstars' country-specific sites I guess it might be higher, but I would aim to not play any hyperturbos with rake >4%. If you can't find any with 4% or less you should probably try to play a different format with less rake.

the math it's right . the exact rake for spin and hyper it's 8.7%, the same is for the turbo hu sng

Also follow up question: Are there any networks other than stars where the volume of HU games is decent? I have accounts on Unibet and 888 and both are pretty dismal (Unibet has max 10 players in HU games at the lowest stake during off peak times, and usually maybe ~15 at peak times).

That's in UK btw.

There is a guy with RiskOriented nick (I think his name is Samuel Smith) that broadcasts on http://www.twitch.tv/riskoriented/pr...ast_broadcasts
He owns an online poker school and he is often live on twitch, but if he is not on the link above you can watch past broadcasts. He plays a lot of Heads up (both sng and cash) and there is a lot of free material as you can see, my doubt is:

Can I trust about Riskoriented teachings? Is he a good coach?

If it's free there is no harm. But if it's free, then the info is probably not great.

Hi,
Could someone please tell me how many vpp in 15$ and 30$ you can win by game with a platinium level ?
Thanks

What else can someone see in here...

Someone is pretty lazy to do the simple math :P

You're pretty lazy and you probably meant FPP's.

not lazy i m not already playin on ps, vpp or fpp same same

You get 5,5 VPP's for every $ of rake regardless of VIP status. You need 7500 VPP's per month to reach Platinum Star. The amount of FPP's depends on you VIP status. You get 2,5 FPP's per VPP once you are Platinum Star.

thanks buddy did not know that vpp are same for all level, just according to $ of rake.

Hi guys, I would like to start playing spin & go. I have for you a few questions regarding this variety of the game. What I need to know omitting strategy, I mean mainly about programs like Poker Tracker, Holdem Menager, etc. What are the basic steps should I do to start playing? Can you help me get started with spin & go Apart from the strategy of the game.

Hey guys,

I began to read the famous Mersenneary Book on HU SNG.com one month ago, but i'm pretty sceptical on certain chart cuz the ebook was written in 2011. The game have changed since and perhaps some chart are inacurrate and no longer up to date. What do you think about this one particularily ? Is there some mistakes/some hands with which you disagree ? I don't understand the open shove with JTo, and SC...

I am afraid you can't get into 30s using this chart, sorry.

Héhé Open push A6o -, 22/33, our weaker Kx suited and Ax suited.
Limp with playable hands (suited connectors, even some offsuit hands) and traps, and raise (calling and folding with our other hands) is better ? I'm using that strategy for the moment, but was pretty surprised to see that the ebook recommend a completely different one. Both are wrong maybe This is definitely the depth that i master the less and there is not a lot of videos to working on (except if we subscribe to hu sng premium i guess).