NL Heads up SNG- IGNORE SORRY

[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 :P ). 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

[pokerroomace]

you played a few sngs and you think they're easy. play a few thousand and then make a comment on them.
you're doubling strategy is poor. you busted at the 77s which was inevitable. it was only a matter of time before you busted when playing out of your BR at a high variance game. you got lucky to win your $587. you could easily have busted

you cannot maintain an 80% winrate at HU sngs at any stakes over a large sample of sngs.

how you played the sngs it's definitely a crap shoot.

the best advice of this post is "ignore sorry" in the title. you should def. ignore this post

[sejje]

how you played the sngs it's definitely a crap shoot.

Playing reasonably tight and pushing with two pair is a crapshoot?

What exactly are you putting YOUR money in with heads up?

Of course, the doubling stakes method was total nonsense and clearly one of the sillier things that's been posted.

[Geanosssss]

I chose not to ignore this post..I read it, and all i can say is.... lOL

[Fnord]

Always good for a laugh when you feel like spewing chips on the cheap.

Table '54093187 1' 2-max Seat #2 is the button
Seat 1: Fnord (1690 in chips)
Seat 2: Unterweidau (1310 in chips)
Unterweidau: posts small blind 25
Fnord: posts big blind 50
*** HOLE CARDS ***
Dealt to Fnord [9s Td]
Unterweidau: raises 50 to 100
Fnord: calls 50
*** FLOP *** [2s Ks Ts]
Fnord: checks
Unterweidau: bets 50
Fnord: raises 250 to 300
Unterweidau: calls 250
*** TURN *** [2s Ks Ts] [9h]
Fnord: bets 1290 and is all-in
Unterweidau: calls 910 and is all-in
*** RIVER *** [2s Ks Ts 9h] [9d]
*** SHOW DOWN ***
Fnord: shows [9s Td] (a full house, Nines full of Tens)
Unterweidau: shows [As Qd] (a pair of Nines)
Fnord collected 2620 from pot
*** SUMMARY ***
Total pot 2620 | Rake 0
Board [2s Ks Ts 9h 9d]
Seat 1: Fnord (big blind) showed [9s Td] and won (2620) with a full house, Nines full of Tens
Seat 2: Unterweidau (button) (small blind) showed [As Qd] and lost with a pair of Nines