Is it possible to climb from 1,50$ HU to at least 7$ or 15$ HU starting with BR of 20$?
I have been playing a lot of these games (1,50 and 3,50) even winning most of them, but still it's sick how dumb guys I play against are. It makes it much harder to boost my BR faster. Have read books about HU poker, know mathematics of poker and so on, but these fishes make it all worthless. They dont respect your raises, they limp with pretty much every hand and so on. Ok, I understand that if they play like that, then I should play TAG, but still, even if I dont play neither turbos or hyper turbos, where they could blind me down faster, my TAG style doesnt give me benifits it should give to me.
Could you give me any advice of how to crush these low limits, to get higher at last?
There is no recipe just play solid and pray variance go's your way, Your edge against even terrible players isn't as big as other games because of the fast blinds that force you to play hands, ROI are lower but you can play more volume to make up for that
There are fish at every limit but the regs will get better with each move up the ladder as you become a better player you will have to learn to exploit the weaker regs to make a profit and not solely rely on the fish
But to answer your question i really dont know, if i had to guess it would seem obvious to me that the lower the buyin the easier the game like all forms of poker this is almost always the case
You can play with a $20 deposit but i would advise you to play games with a slower blind structure and be prepared to lose you money if you can afford it. If not you could always try to build up your BR through other games like 6/9man SNGs before jumping into HU or even try to get a staking deal in the marketplace where you have to share your profit
Last edited by KennyJPowers; 05-25-2013 at 06:44 AM.
You have a giant and very common misconception, people playing bad shouldn't bother you, it doesn't make winning harder, it makes it possible. If you can't beat lower levels, then you won't beat higher levels, if you are having trouble in microstakes, you would be deluding yourself if you think that you would be better at the higher stakes.
You also don't play TAG against loose passive fish, I don't think you ever play TAG HU at all.
I would suggest a different strategy with only $20.
Play zoom cash micro stakes 2c-5c , 2-4 tables u can easily double your BR in a session.
If u know what u are doing and move up to 5-10 quickly , $100-150 is achievable in a week.
Then u can give $3.5s a shot.
zoom is much less variance, people play so ridiculously tight, u can just open x 2,5-3 every unopened hand and show a nice profit, fold to every 3bet coz it's almost always AK, QQ+ , c bet 100%. ez game.