High Stakes Rail

As someone who has played thousands of heads-up matches and considers himself a heads-up specialist, I want to get into some topics that are rarely discussed in heads-up strategy articles. While there might be a few heads-up players that can earn a positive win rate while playing two or three tables at a time, most people can’t successfully process that much information. In every game you play, you must be thinking about how you’re going to beat this opponent. While you’ll fold hands like 5, 8 offsuit in a 10 player sit and go, you’re going to be playing these types of hands in heads up matches. You must be feeling attentive, methodical, smart, and aggressive from the very first hand.A lot of players sit down saying to themselves “I’m gonna destroy this guy”. That’s the wrong attitude to have, and it will cause you to make all sorts of mistakes. This only applies to heads-up tournament matches, and when the buy-in for the tournament is equal to or less than 5% of your total bankroll. Also, this is only a strategy that I recommend for matches with a $20 or smaller buy-in. Above this level, I suggest using more caution with the following strategy as players at higher levels tend to be more sophisticated. First, heads-up poker is an aggressive game, often played by people with naturally aggressive personalities. This aggressive player in front of you may have just taken a bad beat in his last match and be feeling the need to do the online equivalent of ‘kicking someone’s ass’. He may have just had an argument with his girlfriend. More experienced players realize that there are a lot of terrible heads-up players at the low stake levels. Let’s assume that you hold a hand like A, Q, with blinds of 10/20, on one of the first hands of the match. You raise it to 60, three times the big blind. At this point, one of two things are generally going to happen. This situation is sketchy at best when you’re playing a low-stakes match. I often read people asking about the differences between buy-ins while moving up, so I thought I’d briefly share my thoughts about it.I spent a bit longer with $60s. There are definitely some regs at this level, but there are also plenty of games. Pellegrino has won several hundreds of thousands of dollars beating heads-up sit-n-gos. The Lock Poker Pro has been an instructor with both PokerStrategy and CardRunners where he produced heads-up sit-n-go videos. Obviously in those other games you will be playing far fewer hands than in heads-up. In heads-up, you will be playing 70 to 100 percent of hands in position and around 60 to 80 percent of hands out of position. At around 16-to-25 big blinds a lot of people stop having a non all-in three-bet range, so they will just three-bet jam if they three-bet or they will flat otherwise. So now the options they have are either three-bet shove or fold their big blind. That means in our mind, hands you can’t raise/call with, like J-3 suited or 7-2 offsuit, have the same value. With hand ranges being so wide and less polarized (meaning they either have the top of their range or a complete bluff) in a lot of spots, thin value betting becomes very important. Having the button means you have the most information and that helps a ton in being able to value bet thinly.I open wide. Very wide. I open around 85 to 95 percent from the button. Good players tend to open lots of hands. Bad players don’t open that many. I am defending pretty wide though. Kim" Kim disagreed with Nick "TCfromUB" Frame's Heads-up No Limit power rankings and challenged him to play heads-up. The two players will play 15,000 hands on $25/$50 limits with a $15,000 sidebet. No Limit power rankings (which you can see below in a screenshot from the ChicagoJoey podcast).According to an official statement, both players have agreed to play at least five sessions a week with each session lasting at least 1,000 hands. Players have a chance to change this based on a mutual agreement or can quit if they are down seven buy-ins in one session. I was five or six years old, my dad and I would play chess. In order to make it a fair game, he would play me without some of his key pieces. As I got better at it, he would add pieces back into the game. By the time I was seven or eight, he couldn’t beat me anymore. Polk was taking a class that had a mandatory attendance policy, but due to a late transfer, he wasn’t aware of a daily sign-in sheet. After explaining the circumstances to his teacher, she informed him he would be failing the class anyway. Polk had enough, dropped out of college, and moved to Las Vegas.I was moving into my dorm with my two computer monitors. One of my roommates noticed and asked me if I was a poker player. It turns out he was a $0.10-$0.25 grinder on PokerStars, so, in my mind, I just thought that the year was going to be awesome. Over the course of that semester, I had some real swings. I got drunk at a party one night, went back to my room, and lost about half my bankroll at the Ultimate Bet blackjack tables, which, in hindsight, is a relatively cheap life lesson. They are always impressed by the part where I tell my teacher to go f—k herself, but less impressed when they find out that when I moved to Las Vegas, I moved in with my grandma. I was only around 19 at the time, so I wasn’t moving to Las Vegas for live poker. The two agreed to play 15,000 hands of $100-$200 no-limit hold’em. The winner would keep their profit, along with a $100,000 side bet. In the end, Polk won roughly $840,000 from his opponent. Initially, most people in the high-stakes community believed he would win, but when the challenge went down, I just stomped him. That gave a lot of validity to the claims I was making about how good I was as a player. Personally, I felt the pride of coming full circle and realizing that I started out at the lowest stakes online and had just beat one of the best at the highest stakes online in a game I had come to master. It was just a very rewarding journey.I’ve always been an online grinder.

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