How do you play H-U?

[Wardonkey]

Sark, you need to learn to beat the limits you are playing now before you worry about the $100/200 game.

There is a natural progression, as you get better and move up the ladder your game evolves. The game required to beat $100/200 will not be the best game to beat $1/2. 

Also, while the games at higher levels are definately tougher do not assume that everyone playing at those levels is a strong player. There are a fair few fish in the deep end too.

[Sark79]

Yea, I agree Wardonkey

I guess, it is just like being at school. When you are in your early years, you watch the older kids going to parties and going out on dates. Then a few years down the line, it is you who is going to the parties and on the dates. Then, your minds starts looking further up the ladder.... fancy cars, big houses and supermodels.

I am in junior school in poker terms right now. The $100/200 players are the older kids.  The $100/200 players are the ones looking up the ladder. But their ladder is the Big Game at the Bellagio with Doyle, Gus and Johnny Chan.. They no longer want $100/200. Their minds dream of $4000/8000 blinds

[AdamM]

i disagree about the helmuth book. it's a good tool for getting a beginner to the interdediate stage. it's no good for an advanced player but then all the advanced players are kicking helmuths ass these days. someone who's been playing a short time would learn more from this book than anything Doyle, harrington or sklansky has written.

[Sark79]

I like the book. I have only read the Limit / No-Limit sections. I have still to read the other parts. Hopefully over the next couple of weeks, I have the time to start them. 

[Scottish Dave]

Can anyone give me any tips on how to play Heads-Up.

I have lost count of the amount of times, I have lost playing heads-up. I just can't seem to do it.

I was playing a $15 STT on Blonde tonight. Over the last few days, my bankroll has grown from  $0.72  to  $70.01.  I have been playing STT. Normally, I hate STT mainly due to the H-U element. I know, I am missing out on potential money because of my lack of ability to play this part of a poker game.

Tonight, I went into the H-U with almost ten times as many chips as my opponent. I lost. I got outdrawn a few times, but to be honest, I didn't play it as well as I should have done.

I don't really enjoy playing STT, but so far, it is the type of poker which seems to suit my game the most. My cashes in these type of games are respectable. But they are 2nd's and 3rd's. I have only won a few of these. It is the H-U part of a STT that absolutely kills me.

Any tips would be appreciated.

Thanks

like this:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=LEfLXr3eSxs

[Sark79]

yep like that, but for people who are not aliens. He must be an alien to be able to play as good as that. I am not an alien, I am a fish

[I, Zimbra]

i disagree about the helmuth book. it's a good tool for getting a beginner to the interdediate stage. it's no good for an advanced player but then all the advanced players are kicking helmuths ass these days. someone who's been playing a short time would learn more from this book than anything Doyle, harrington or sklansky has written.

That's sort of the impression I'm getting from it. It's all explained very much from first principles, covers all the main games, and is still a small enough book - unlike the bohemiath that is Super/System - that it won't put newbies off.

[Ironside]

aggression is key but you need to adapt if you are playing against a super aggresive player you need to make him think you are timid this way you can use the aggression to steal big pots while he keeps nicking the small ones

agaisnt a normall oppo you can use aggression very easy they are looking for average hands to play with while you can play and win with 72o