Poker Tips

Playing Heads Up Poker is a true test of one’s poker skill and ability. Heads-up poker is perhaps one of the single most overlooked aspects of improving your own game especially when you consider that in tournaments the difference in payouts between a first place win and a second place finish can often vary vastly percentage wise with most first place wins rewarding the winner substantially more than all other entrants.

What sparked me into writing this information is I recently won a few T$ at PokerStars and wanted to convert them into real money, so I figured Heads-Up Poker was the way to go as it is quick and basically 50/50 chance of winning, which actually ended up me winning six out of the seven games I played, making made me think about heads up a bit, and that perhaps there is a better way to play the game or some kind of advanced Heads Up Poker Strategy, so with that idea in mind I googled “win playing heads up” and got very few decent search results, I then looked for books on the subject matter and only found one or two books matching the description, apparently Collin Moshman’s “Heads-Up No-Limit Hold ’em” is the definitive book on the subject matter, yet I read several reviews that implied it was a bit too basic for advanced players so I decided to give it a skip.

Which lead to me compiling this guide about how to win playing heads up no limit Texas Hold’em and the best strategy to use against your opponents based on the information I have gathered and read with a bit of personal experience added.

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Poker Players should always set limits for themselves and exercise basic Bankroll management skills if they wish to become successful players. Full Tilt Poker Pro Chris Ferguson suggests that you should never buy-in to cash games with more than 5% of your total bankroll, it is hard to resist playing higher stakes.

One of the main reasons for applying Bankroll management strategy is to prevent poker players from going broke quicker, it is a slower process of building your bankroll but in the end it could save you from some big loses when you experience a bad run.

We have included some examples of what cash game stakes or tournament buy-ins you should be playing based on your current bankroll.

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In Poker the term Donkey or Donk has become the modern poker term for fish. A Donk is a poker player who will play with the worse cards and then somehow manage to have you beat by the the river. It’s not easy to beat these kinds of players because in general they are gamblers who don’t use poker skills to win, donks are willing to take a chance with any two hole cards regardless of their value or poker hand ranking. With careful observation of the play on your table you should be able to recognize these players within the first 10 hands.

Watch to see who is raising pre-flop and who calls, study their play to the showdown. If the raiser raised for no reason or the caller called with nothing you should make a note on these player, most online poker rooms allow you to write notes. You should label these types of poker players as Donks for future reference because when you got the nuts they will pay the price.

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Standard Preflop Raises No Limit Hold’em

A quick tip on standard preflop raises in no limit Hold’em and what your preflop raises should be based on:

• Are Antes included or blinds only?
• How is your stack size?
• Limpers in the pot?
• Will your opponents fold with a larger raise more frequently than with a smaller raise?

The standard preflop raise with no antes ranges between 2.5 to 4 times the big blind with 3 times the big blind being the most conventional preflop raise meaning when the blinds are at 10/20 the most common preflop raise will be 60 but can vary between 40 to 80.

Moving All In preflop as the first to raise is silly regardless of the cards you may have, going all in preflop narrows the chances of anyone playing the hand and accumulating a larger pot and generally you will only be called by other top hands thereby reducing your chances and equity.

The inverse of raising to the minimum is poor poker as chances are you will be giving the big blind great odds to call you besides almost no pro players make minimum raises preflop.

There are of course always exceptions to this rule, as poker is a game in which many different styles of play can prove to be successful, however it’s important to understand that minimum raising preflop is unorthodox play that requires exceptional post flop abilities.

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