She looked into his soul and made an aggressive call.
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recounting a tournament hand without giving stack sizes is hilarious too
yeah im glad i didnt read that article lol
Anyone here a heads-up NLHE wizard? Tips for a match against an unknown villain? My home poker club is starting a heads up tourney tonight, and my first match is against a total unknown. Friend of one of our long-time players. I don’t have a ton of HU tournament experience, other than the one I shipped last month with the same club. I do feel like I understand the theory of HU a little better than your average live reg (which these guys all are), but I’m in no way an expert.
I definitely leaned hard on my knowledge of my opponents last time, which I won’t have in this first match.
It’s gonna be really fucking embarrassing if the returning champ gets steamrolled by this dude in round one.
My instinct is to play smallball poker until I get a read and adjust accordingly. The ability to do so depends on your skill level and if stack are deep enough and the structure is slow enough for you to have time to get a read.
yeah, stacks are pretty deep. Last time I started my matches super aggressive because I knew my opponents and that they’d definitely be more passive than I would. This time I’ll probably try to dial it back a bit until I get a better feel for the guy.
If stacks are deep enough, you can test him to see how he responds to aggression. What’s best for you depends a bit on your style.
happy to report a win in round 1. He was probably one of the better people I’ve played against, but he played much too passively post flop and was pretty easy to exploit. I even took a couple of 1/3-stack-sized hits on a couple unlucky rivers, and managed to grind it back up.
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First, minraise ATC from the button.
Then employ the 3-2-1 rule:
- 3bet his first 3 opens
- 4bet his first 2 3bets
- 5bet jam his first 4bet
Repeat these steps every 20 minutes or so.
Note: this is standard strategy for starting cash tables online, not so sure about the long term EV equation here though.
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Yeah, I’ve used that before playing cash, but I am definitely a little more shaky on HU tournament strategy. They made the structure super deep this time, so I can definitely use it for the first few levels, at least.
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Just clicking buttons mane. 12bbs would have been better probably.
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I have never heard of this rule. If two people employing it played heads-up, wouldn’t they be all-in preflop with random cards on the first hand?
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Dude got dragged so he muted.
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Final sentence is brutal.
Also, nothing wrong with using gf account for new bonuses. Using a bot is meh though.
Still rolling in my HU tourney. Won round 2 against one of the better players in the club when my 4-bet semi bluff on the flop got there on the river. 
He’d been bluff raising a lot and I had two overs + flush draw. Time to be a bully, I thought.
My next match is against one of the worst players in the club (and probably in all of San Diego, lol). Which of course means I will probably lose in spectacular fashion in level 1.
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Watching WSOP event 2 on YouTube. Not a fan of David Tuchman. And Brad readily admits he doesn’t know the strategy at this point. What are we doing here?
Are we still doing WSOP?
It’s online
Cool. Can I play in the events?
If you live in Nevada or New Jersey I believe