With regards to bankroll, it comes down to a few things, namely your tolerated risk of ruin and your game selection.

If you don't mind losing your br, then you can obviously play on less and less buyins. If you're adverse to it and want the probability of busting to be as small as can be, then obviously you need a significantly bigger BR.

Game selection affects winrate and the variance encountered. Big edge against passive fish = high winrate and low standard deviation. Small edge against aggro reg = small winrate and high standard deviation.

Play around with the tool on the right hand side of this page to get an idea of how much you'll need. http://www.evplusplus.com/poker_tools/risk_of_ruin/
Starting out at HU cash, whatever you do, don't over-estimate your winrate and don't underestimate the standard deviation.

I was looking at ptr and they have shown that bodog rakes a lot less than Ipoker (titan where I play), in fact for the stakes I play, it's half the price.

I was wondering if there is much action over there at 5nl hu? I can play most of the time at titan poker but sometimes I've gotta wait about 10 minutes before someone joins my table...I get hit and run a lot and usually when I stack someone, they leave. So I gotta wait around again...

Also does anyone know any good deals that I can get for going over there?

They have the most active 5NL-10NL tables out of the sites I've been to.

and the players are really bad There are plenty of maniacs who you can stack off by calling bluffs with middle pair

But bodog has no rakeback and that's a serious problem in micro stakes HU, so it's up to you it's still beatable

Thanks man.

Yeah, don't I know about rake! I just worked out that I pay about 30bb/100 in rake over at Titan poker, what a frigging con! You don't even get rakeback there either! It's terrible. You get 'points' which if you make several squillion of them you can cash them in for a $5...

I just read that Titan poker is only has 5% rake which is just the same as bodog...

However, when at ptr, it says clearly that bodog is much cheaper than titan...

Have a look for yourself...

http://www.pokertableratings.com/pok...imit-hold%27em

Can you tell me why this may be true and what is the reason for it?

Grimming is when your opponent plays his button and then leaves

What these opponents are doing is called "losing money". They're playing one hand against you oop and then leaving.

Afaik "losing money" isn't against the ToS.

I am a new player in cash games generally.I am a winning sng player but because its kinda boring to push/fold all time i prefer to start learning nl hu cash game and i have a few questions inside.If you will be able to help me i would be very happy

1)What is a sustainable bb/100 when 1 tabling in nl50?
2)Which is the best hu cash game training site for nl50-nl100 limit?I am not interested in high stakes games,so dont tell me about ''this training site is the best for because it has high stakes games''
3)How many hands should i have in order to know if i am a winning player and i can beat this limit?
4)Are there any good articles or books to read?
5)Should rakeback/cashback be my main concern or should i concern more about the traffic?for example pokerstars has nice traffic but not good bonuses but ipoker has nice bonuses and not so good traffic


These are myy questions.I would be happy if you politely answer me and if i came up with more question i ll be posting here.Thank you very much

1) Depends on whether you are tableselecting/bumhunting much. But i would aim for 4bb/100 - 7bb/100.
2) dunno
3) 70-100k hands is a fair sample i think, as long as you dont use 2 years reaching them by being a nit. "Beating this limit" is an entirely different thing and hard to answer, cuz NLHU is so player/bankroll dependent. Move up when u reach a good amount of buy-ins (if that ever happens) and be careful who you play in the beginning at a new lvl.
4) Probably, but the games evolves quick. Best way to learn is to play good regs.
5) Rakeback is obviously important, but traffic is too (!).
PS have nice bonuses for supernova though, but hard to reach for most.

1.) true depends on who your playing but if youre bumhunting 10-15bb/100 would be a good goal.

2.) my roommate has told me he really likes deuces cracked and he plays .25/.50-2/4

3.) if youre bumhunting it should show up sooner, maybe 30-40k hands? if your playing regs then that numbers going to go up.

4.) you can find a lot of good info in this forum. try using search feature to find something specific or read some threads and get an idea of which posters u like and read my posts and threads by them.

5.) traffic at 50nl-100nl is going to be pretty decent everywhere. And RB and those stakes is pretty damn important imo. I think you should be able to find a good compromise somewhere. But try it out somewhere and if traffic isnt as good as you'd like then move to stars :-p

hello guy's i have some questions about HU poker...

1)What is the most difficult part in HU ???

2)have similarities in Cash HU and SNG HU ???

3) Is good way to start playing SNG HU and later go to cash HU or is better to play Shorthanded cash game and later go to HU.

4)I Cant make register in some coaching site where i can find and watch video's HU and etc..

1.) controlling tilt/emotions. adjusting to many diff types of opponents. one thing thats good against someone else is terrible against the next guy.

2.) for sure

3.) depends on your bankroll and experience i'd say. what stakes do u want to play in HU cash? rake can be brutal at very low stakes cash games and sometimes its just better to build with sngs until u can play 50nl or something.

4.) wat?

hello guy's i have some questions about HU poker...

1)What is the most difficult part in HU ???

2)have similarities in Cash HU and SNG HU ???

3) Is good way to start playing SNG HU and later go to cash HU or is better to play Shorthanded cash game and later go to HU.

4)I Cant make register in some coaching site where i can find and watch video's HU and etc..

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what should my general heads up stats be? like my vpip in position and out of position and when out of position should i always just 3-bet those hands? and what hands oop and in position should i call with?

Ridiculously general question but some basic numbers would be something like:

IP aim for 80% OOP aim for 40% total. 3bet like 15% to start and then adjust

Is there a way to filter holdem manager reports for 3bet pots? I'm looking for a leak buster report of sorts but just for 3bet pots.

yupp.

click filter

more filters (far right tab)

then 3pot = true or something

play around with it and let me know if u need more help

Thanks, that's exactly what I was looking for.

I thought that I was being exploited by people check-raising me too much on the flop and folding too much. However, I actually get a higher % of folds from check-raises (although I do c/r less)…

Basically over the last 9,000 hands I have been check-raised 105 times and I have only called or raised 33% of them.

Whereas I have c/red people 62 times but they have been folding about 37% of the time…

I am actually doing better in terms of evbb/100 when I check/raise than when I am check/raised…

So, I think perhaps I should be adding in more check/raises and checkraise bluffs…

At the moment my c/ring range is mostly value – sets, two-pairs, straights, TPTK type of hands…However I also checkraise my flush draws as bluffs. My total c/r frequency is about 9%

I know I can exploit my opponents by c/ring more but I’m wondering, should I start c/ring middle pairs for protection and bluff purposes?

I guess my question is what type of hands should I supplement my c/ring frequency with? Also when I do c/r, what amount should I make it to?

Thanks very much for your responses.

i think c/r to 3x their bet is fine usually.

c/r with hands that suck to call with, but still have some equity. i.e T7s on J92r or something.

this is a pretty general Q tho. As u can reallllly adjust what your c/r with. mine varies a **** ton depending on how much their cbetting, what theyre cbetting, how wide theyre calling c/r with, what their flop 3b range looks like, button open %.

so i mean u can have like general c/r game plan to start, but its going to be adjusted heavily depending on those things ^. I would mostly stick with stuff that has good equity or strong hands, or hands with okayish equity that doesnt like calling.

IF he is tight with 3betting and has lots of premium hands then go for setmine. Also depends on how passive he is postflop. If he's been 3betting a lot, you might 4bet shove them in.

If he flats small pairs to 3bet we can notice that his 4bet range doesn't have them, right? postflop barrel more often. Profit.

Is there a discussion of HEM aggression factor for hu someone can link me to? Does anything stand out of:
Agg: 2.85
Agg%: 35.7
Flop Agg%: 41.2
Turn Agg%: 33.6
River Agg%: 25.8

AF is an indicator of how often a player bet/raise instead of calling.

players under < 1.5 AF are generally passive. < 1 are calling stations. if u have a player < 1 AF raise u, normally he has the nuts.
standard AF is around 2 - 3.

flop, turn and river agg% is how often u continue aggression on each street

from ur stats, it can be deduced that u don't barrel enough turn and river as u often give up aggression on later streets

Not that I know of, but those look very normal to me. My river is a tad higher than yours but all of my others are slightly lower.

Thank you. By 3 betting a lot do you mean 25% plus? Do we not turn our hand face up when we 4 bet shove? Is 4 bet calling an option with small pairs if he is 3 bet/5betting a lot of high cards?

ty again