Heads Up limit poker

[Trikflow77]

Anyone play any heads up limit? I have been playing some on UB and I love it. It is a real swingy game, but If your solid its really profitable. Plus you can get like 200 hands an hour in. I got inspired to play it from watching neverwin (dustin woolf) and gummybear (Thomas Keller) duke it out at 200/400. Plus it seem like a lot of crappy players like HU becasue you can play just about any hand. Even at 5/10, which is what I have been playing, the level of play is pretty crappy. Either very weak or way aggressive.

[|~|ypermegachi]

do not play heads up NL at any site for high stakes...hell i wouldn't do it with limit either...many great players with big rolls have lost it all to some idiot would used a stolen credit card.

[gabe]

do not play heads up NL at any site for high stakes...hell i wouldn't do it with limit either...many great players with big rolls have lost it all to some idiot would used a stolen credit card.

uh? care to explain?

[Trikflow77]

ditto, I dont get it. I play 5/10 limit a lot now, and I have yet to run into anything you describe.

[|~|ypermegachi]

there have been repeat cases where prima poker has completely locked a player's account.

prima's one of the few places that have very high stakes heads up ring tables (hell they have a $200/$400 NO LIMIT RING....that's right fricken $400 big blind).

some idiot with a stolen credit deposits into the site, and sits down at a table. high stakes pro sits down and uterly destroys the fish.

the fish leaves the site. pro thinks wow that was the easiest money ever! couple days later pro cannot log into account anymore. pro calls/emails and goes wtf! support says sorry dude you are suspected for money laundering and we pwn joo!

[|~|ypermegachi]

anyways back to the topic....

uh...no experience heads up...i shut up now :S

[Trikflow77]

I heard about that, but it was an isolated event.

[Rondavu]

I heard about this too. Here's what I don't understand. If the site knows it's a possiblity that someone would sit down with a stolen credit card and gamble, then what precautions have they taken to protect honest high stakes players who are victims of this criminal? Do they sit there at a round table and announce "Ya, well anyone who is at a table when someone sits down with a stolen credit card will henceforth assume the status of money launderer. That's our plan. We think it's great."

Are they completely retarded? Get your act together. So your going to alienate your high stakes players because your too stupid to head off this inevitability and construct more appropriate consequences?

How about this? Take the money which is illegitimate out of the account, and apologize to the high stakes player even if he was laundering. Explain that the moneys earned are fraudulent, and that your sorry for any inconvenience. Don't freeze the account jackasses. Are we humans or some subspecies of bonehead?

I mean if you follow that logic, the site itself must be laundering money because it collected rake from illegitimate funds. Arrest those people!