i'm pretty sure the -EV from playing small pairs out bb HU long term, is way less than than the -EV of just chucking your bb away every time. like mentioned above, value of a set HU is huge also.

The reason why you never fold a small pair to a single raise in HU is because the button's raising range is much much much wider then that of a button's raising range in FR (this I'm just guessing I have never played FR Cash online). Most HU players - fish and regs - open 60-100% of buttons, in 6-max, people open 30-50% of buttons, but I would assume that number is smaller for FR.

Think about this from a mathematical perspective, if someone raise to 3x, you should defend 33% of their raising range to not get exploited. So if someone is raising 100%, you ideally should defend 33% (although if you suck at OOP play it is often more +EV to fold). However, if you are playing 6-max and a reg opens 30% of buttons, you only need to defend 10% of your range to not get exploited, and even less in FR. I don't think anyone plays so nitty HU that you can't profitably play pocket pairs OOP.

Hm... I don't know if this is the answer you are looking for but the most important thing for transitioning to HU (or just playing good poker in general) is constantly think about ranges and frequencies. Poker is poker but the way people learn to play 6-max/FR/MTT a lot of times people become too obsessed with what they should do but not why they should do it. Constantly think about why someone is doing something, and think about how you can exploit it.

I remember when I first heard that poker is about playing the player and not the cards, I thought it was ******ed. The more poker I play, the more I realized how true that saying is. Poker can be simplified down to a few steps.

1) Identify villain's weakness/imbalance
2) Evolve your strategy to attack weakness/imbalance
3) ???????????
4) Profit

Rinse and repeat if/when villain adapts.

Hello.
I'm doing a HU challenge with a friend over 5k hands.
Today we played our first session of 300 hands.

That guy 3bets a lot (like 35%) but most of the time he also flats my 4bets.

What's the best way to anticipate to this except tightening up?

My $0.02 aren't worth much but imo I would open with a minbet if he's 3 betting alot and flat his 3 bets no metter where you at (top range or bottom) and out play him postflop.

Hi, this is my first post on this forum (weeeee!)
My default game is 6max cash, but recently I have switched to HU. What videos and training sites would you recommend for a HU beginner? I have seen Pr1nnyraiding by Krantz, and I know about Dog's series. What else is worth watching?

spaceman in a cowboy hat is awesome for beginners... also markuis series on CR is quite good

I believe I heard this name before, what's site is that on?

DC

All HU video's from CPar1 up to 200nl

Hi

can anyone tell me the rake @ ipoker for 0.10/20 ? And more importantly, if its beatable for winning hu sng player (10-20$)

i dont wanna start @ 50nl because i only have experience with husng and from what ive head hu cash can be quite swingy

@ merge, NL25 rake is -6bb/100 apparently. It's posted a couple of pages back or so, if you wanna look.

I have a hard time believing that 10NL HU is unbeatable. I'm sure 100NL regs would crush that game. If people are decent at HU but just don't have the BR would it really be a bad idea for them to play at those stakes w/ RB?

and what about ipoker 20nl? I will be starting on 20nl to get used to hu cash instead of hu sng's, however i am not really sure what the rake is and if its beatable. I tried talking to there onnline support but those people really dont have any clue about poker.

Sigghh.. I have no idea, but it can't be very different from Merge NL25, coz I think the two sites rake the same percentage. Stick to sngs till you're rolled for NL50 is my advice, but I'm sure it probs is still beatable, but idk.

ill start playing 5k hands and will review results/rake after that

thnx for the info!

have about 1.4k on ft which is more than my normal bank account lol. decide to give merge a try because i miss pokerz. i already had a sportsbook account so i put 100 on it which may have been dumb cause there is no rakeback. i dont really wanna grind 6max 4nl so i decided im going to be a d1ck and buy in short at 25nl heads up. What should my strategy be once i double up? should i keep playing or hit n run? or is that opponent dependent. or should i just buy in full with 4 buy ins only

Couldnt find an answer in this thread. Given rake structures, which is a better site to be playing on? FTP with RB or Stars and gold star? Talking about 50nlhu

@ozzington http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/28...-chart-683086/

thank you very much. looks like ftp has better RB for me. Any clue how much either site is actually raking? I feel like Stars is raking higher but not sure :S

Just starting micro 5NL HU cash on Bodog. Does anyone know how the rake is there? I would really like to sweat some dece HU NLHE players, Skype is Douglas Lyford if interested.

^^^ Ew, gross. I don't know what the rake is but it has to be BAD. Play husng's to build roll until you can jump into higher level unless you are absolutely crushing 5NL.

I'm new to hu cash coming from husng. Just got hm manager and I don't know how to interpret showdown winnings. How normal is it to be down $500 in non-showdown winnings and up more in showdown winnings over 13k hands at 25NL? Should I be worried that I'm down so much in non-showdown?

it would be better if you just posted your graph, but its probably bad (although depends on the size of your sample and on opponents that you play against)... from my experience there are two main HU approaches:

one is that both your lines go up (red>blue)

or

your red line is b/e and blue goes up.




that said all that REALLY matters is your winrate, these lines can just point out some of your leaks

Yo guys!

I'm a SSNL grinder and since cash game "dot it" is finally arrived and 6max games will be full of reg/regtard in few months, i could be interested in learning hu cash nlhe.

Have u got some tips/must read 3ds/must read books/whatever stuff to suggest me?

tyvm!