Heads up SNG.....$587 in 48hr

[W140]

Hi all, Thought this is as good a time as any to join. Iv been playing small stakes for around 2 years online and am enjoying every minute (almost every min ). NL cash and limit can get pretty dry after a while, particularly after a downswing. SNG's iv found to be a crap shoot....you may think im on a downer.

Quite the opposite actually, about 2 months ago i stumbled on heads up SNG's , 11 and 22 dollar ones specifically. In 48 hours, i s**t you not, i made $587. I used a doubling up method (martingale you could say) when losing a game. Pure folly right ?, what happens when losing 5 times in a row ? going to bet my whole roll ?.

Well no ..after playing an 11 and losing, a 22 loss and then a 55 loss, i merely went back to the 11's and the 80 odd percent winrate i was riding.
My strategy was not what you might think. Logic would say aggressive right ?, well luckily players at these small stakes heads up are rather cluless and passive, all i did was to play reasonable tight (relatively speaking in HU you understand) and after a while when i hit trips or two pair (either being almost a dead cert HU) i would go allin - many times i would be called and win - happy days.

Not such a happy ending though, my initial strategy was working fine, because I WOULDNT play a 77 or above, well tilt reared its head, i made the assumption that 77 players would be the same as 11/22 (wrong). I lost it all - however, this is an area of poker which few have really exploited to its max. Granted, playing against the odd aggressive player is hard, and there is varience, I still believe that any competant player can make some coin in HU SNG's. Give em a go if ya havent

(having read some other posts here, HU is not exactly a secret, sorry in advance.)

[K2 the ArmA]

You're running really well unless you played 500 in 48 hrs.

[badgers]

you think the $55 HU players are clueless? Either you got incredibly lucky with table selection, cards, or both.

[Da GOAT]

You're running really well unless you played 500 in 48 hrs.

haha

[W140]

no i dont think the 55 players are clueless, 11 tho......

And I did get quite lucky, AI on kk, or QQ and being called by 94 or something ridiculous.

[mcatdog]

Without any doubt, there are some horrible, horrible players in the low-limit HU SNG's. You still won't beat them more than 60% of the time.

[TwoKicker]

Without any doubt, there are some horrible, horrible players in the low-limit HU SNG's. You still won't beat them more than 60% of the time.

I disagree, I played two in a row the other day and won them both.

[LimpinAintEZ]

Without any doubt, there are some horrible, horrible players in the low-limit HU SNG's. You still won't beat them more than 60% of the time.

I disagree, I played two in a row the other day and won them both.

well 2 in a row? case closed...

lmfao

[taipan168]

I have played 6 of these and lost all of them, I must suck.

[dsmrolla06]

Without any doubt, there are some horrible, horrible players in the low-limit HU SNG's. You still won't beat them more than 60% of the time.

I disagree, I played two in a row the other day and won them both.

Is it just me or is sarcasm hard to detect from someone with 26 posts?

[Da GOAT]

I have played 6 of these and lost all of them, I must suck.

lol HU for BR

[gingerwizard]

You can play perfect HU and still lose.

Played a few the other week, (just donking around $5 OHILO, stud and NL for fun (waiting for neteller to set me off on my whoring spree).

What I realised was that even though I could really pwn every opponent I played with (thank the lord for cash games teaching me post flop and hand reading), sooner or later it becomes a race, just like HU at the end of a normal turbo. Nowhere near the amount of profit on racing as there is in cash.

[Limpnfold]

I agree with mcatdog. This month I started playing the 33s and 55s turbo HU SNG's on stars. Over about 1100 games I win about 57,5%.

Winning 60% of the games would be completely crushing the games.

I 3table most of the time, so I lose some ROI in exchange for the hourly rate.

HU is a great game, I love it!

[mcatdog]

It's nice to hear from someone who actually plays in those games on a regular basis. People who don't have heads-up experience tend to have an exaggerated idea of how easy it is to get your money in good against a fish. A 60% edge is total domination, like you said.

Personally, I played about 100 of them near the end of April, and was basically breakeven (won 51.5% of them, and lost $16 out of 3K in buyins). I wasn't playing them for the money, I was doing it to improve my hand-reading skills and my heads-up game, and IMO I was successful.

57.5% is really good! If you 3-table the turbos, I'm guessing you can play about 10 of them per hour, you'd be making about 50 bucks an hour including rakeback. That's better than most people on this site do, that's for sure! Have you considered moving to ring games? With your hand-reading skills, there's a good chance you'd crush them after you adjusted to 6-person tables instead of 2-person tables.