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Poker Question - How to play Heads Up NL Hold'em

Posted By: Stick
Date: Sunday, 24 August 2008, at 11:10 p.m.

In Response To: Poker Question - How to play Heads Up NL Hold'em (pfeifrot)

I was waiting for others to tackle this question but since nobody else did let me try the simple route. The biggest problem is you gave us such deep stacks and are basically saying you'll get outplayed by the other guy by far & wide. If you could put a finger on your winning chances playing 'normal poker' with such deep stacks, what would it be?

If it's under 20% the correct strategy which has been presented here before would be to push all in every last hand. You can no longer be outplayed later in the hand, he can never get a read on you, you don't even need to look at your cards, push push push. He'll have to wait on a hand where he has you most likely dominated and when he calls you'll have collected chips from allllllll the other previous steals, possibly 200 or more hands worth depending on how patient the pro is, and then you'll still have suckout potential. If you don't suckout, you aren't bust yet, you still have the leftover chips you've been stealing, keep pushing even though now your stack is so diminished the pro should call with a much larger range of hands, you can hope to suckout again.

If you're talking general poker, you should always raise 3x to 4x the big blind. (adding another 1/2 bet for any limper that comes in the pot before you) The idea of varying the size of your raises to conceal your hand is bogus. If you make every raise the same size how the hell will anyone ever put you on a hand by the size of your raise? (I will admit that varying raises, esp. postflop, is useful, but you have to have this down and understand it before moving on)

You should often call in HU situations if you're the stronger player.

You can't exactly limit the number of raises playing NL hold 'em because one raise is all it takes to put your entire stack on the line. Limit poker has a cap on raises.

Stick

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