wicked sick

Enjoyed the kick off! I'm not sold on playing short stacks however. Maybe this is geared more for someone just wanting to learn HU, but I have found shorties are the worst players in terms of never going off for a big number and hit and running for stupid amounts. Seldom in my years of playing HU have I seen a short stack go off for 4+ buyins when match is over. I would much prefer sitting with a big stack where I have greater potential than him. The key to heads up in my opinion is finding the guys who will tilt and have massive ego's and will just play and play when clearly momentum isn't going their way. Maybe later in the series this will be covered.

Regarding Pokertracker, my view is when you start off playing HU you shouldn't be playing multiple tables nor should you use PT as a crutch. Maybe my view is skewed since I have never used PT in my years of playing HU, but if you simply pay attention to the action at the table you can throw stats out the window.

Please don't take this as a negative comment post, as I love always learning more about HU strategy esp. from two great players, I just wanted to offer a different perspective to perhaps change my own thinking on the above subjects.

LP

Very good point regarding PT, and this is something that we'll be touching on throughout the series. Stats are a way of IDENTIFY-ing :-) your opponent as quickly as possible, but they are not guidelines for how to play against them. You'll want to rely on your General strategy and counterstrategies to beat them, not numbers on the screen.

As for the short stacks, you might change your mind after you see Episode Two. And you might not - those guys can be tilty to play against and make you play badly, especially when they hit and run.

the flash version stops and jumps back the start once it gets to the OOP portion.

i had a similar problem with wilts video, so if this is on my end and you guys know how to troubleshoot this, please let me know.

I've heard of the problem but have never been able to duplicate it. Sooooo tough to troubleshoot some of these fancy flash errors unfortunately. What is the time marker where this happens for you? I can try to run it on a few computers but I've already watched it straight through with no errors, so I really have no idea what it could be.

Try upgrading flash (http://www.adobe.com/products/flashplayer/) and let us know what your browser/computer stats are but honestly there's not much we can do to troubleshoot these voodoo errors remotely. Download it FTW so you can enjoy it in the meantime.

Rob

Oh ya, and Sigurd i couldn't agree more about the intro. Entity did one hell of a job on that :-) I love it and watch it like 5x per day haha!

hahah sick intro

tyty.

WoT -- Nice tip on how people who manually post the blinds are more likely to be hit'n'run artists.

Awesome freaking season opener! Great general outline of preflop play and everything. Couple of questions however:

1.) In my experience in HU I've seen great HU players open 60%+ hands from the button and be considered TAG. The general guidelines layed out in this video is a bit over half of that. Are these just "open everytime regardless of villian" type hands or are they a default range to play against an unknown until you find his style and adjust?

2.) I haven't moved up the 50NL yet (that's the losest stakes HUCASH is spread I think) and the only HU experience I can get is playing HUSNG's. How would you guys adjust this strategy to these? Tighter or looser? Less aggressive?

Thanks!

Where should we post HU hands as we attempt to implement and learn this? I posted one in the low stakes NLHE section but got no replies and I have another I think is interesting, but I don't want to go to the trouble of posting it if no one is gonna reply.

Awesome vid though and I'm really excited about this series and I'm enjoying my subscription.

Feel free to post them here if they relate to the topics in the video. Otherwise, one of us will get around to them in the strat forums :-)

Where should we post HU hands as we attempt to implement and learn this? I posted one in the low stakes NLHE section but got no replies and I have another I think is interesting, but I don't want to go to the trouble of posting it if no one is gonna reply.

Awesome vid though and I'm really excited about this series and I'm enjoying my subscription.

we really should just get a HU NL forum...

Re: button opening range. Even as a general strategy, this seems way too tight. Bear in mind that if you raise 33% of your hands from the button, your opponent can fold every single hand in the BB and break even. I stuck the button opening range suggested in the video into Pokerstove and it comes out as 37%. This means that your opponent could make a profit in the BB by playing only QQ+ AQ+.

Re: button opening range. Even as a general strategy, this seems way too tight. Bear in mind that if you raise 33% of your hands from the button, your opponent can fold every single hand in the BB and break even. I stuck the button opening range suggested in the video into Pokerstove and it comes out as 37%. This means that your opponent could make a profit in the BB by playing only QQ+ AQ+.

The strategy is meant for beginners and you can of course add hands as you see fit. I have a much looser opening range personally, and again, you'll hear about how and why to add hands as we start talking about how to play some of the more common (and marginal) postflop situations.

A point I'll make is that your opponent could make a profit by only playing those hands (QQ+), but he won't only play those hands. Which is what exploitative strategies are all about.

Yeah it was only the 4th or 5th hand of our match. I didn't really have any notes yet. He mucked 66.

Thank you.

Where should we post HU hands as we attempt to implement and learn this? I posted one in the low stakes NLHE section but got no replies and I have another I think is interesting, but I don't want to go to the trouble of posting it if no one is gonna reply.

Awesome vid though and I'm really excited about this series and I'm enjoying my subscription.

we really should just get a HU NL forum...

I already posted a request for a NL HU forum in the "About Deuces Cracked" forum, but so far it's only got one reply

HU Forum is alive!

-DeathDonkey

absolutely loved it! I was just recently getting into HU cash, this is very helpful stuff!

Hello, nice vid. Is there going to be anything on Br mgmt for HU in these series? If not, what general guidelines do you reccomend.

Thanks

Kev

Quoted from above:

"I stuck the button opening range suggested in the video into Pokerstove and it comes out as 37%. This means that your opponent could make a profit in the BB by playing only QQ+ AQ+."


Question: How do you arrive at {QQ+,AQ+} range when knowing what % of hands he opens on the BTN? Just curious, as I have no idea how to solve that.

Very nice. Can you post that HUD layout?

turoati, here ya go.

right click, save as: http://www.plusevpoker.com/ftphu.pah

WoT

I can't seem to save it on my disk?

my god. this and episode 2 are easily the best videos i have ever watched in my life. cant wait for the rest.

Just checking out HU as I'm a 6max player now but it is interesting for sure. You gave some great info regarding table selection and I found the opening hands very interesting as well. I also saw some vagabonds pop in and out from 200 6 max. Funny. I'll certainly continue with the series and maybe I'll be donking around with the 200HU folks soon as well.

Thanks, Mark

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wilt/krantz,

I'm just getting round to watching the series and had a really basic question.

In episode 1 you mention hands to open, hands to defend and hands to 3 bet with. You don't mention hands to call 3 bets with.

I imagine you're calling with any of the hands you also 3 bet with but being on the button how can that range be expanded in a general strategy kind of way ?

Also how are we adjusting for stack size 150-200 bb etc

thanks

thebeloved

Hey,

Very helpful and good video.
I have a question however.
You gave a pretty tight range for open raising on the button.
What about open limping some hands like medium Kings and Queens?

we generally do not advocate limping until we have a reason to. Also our range is pretty tight so far since we're trying to lay the foundation for a "General" strategy, keeping new players out of trouble. As the series progresses, you will see hands we analyze where we're playing starting hands that are outside of our general strategy, and we usually give the reasoning for why we'd play those particular hands.

At some point we do limp some hands (i think probably in the videos we made towards the end of the series?) and we'll give the reasoning for doing so (usually because we're getting 3bet a ton), but as a default we like to teach a raise or fold strategy from the button until we have a reason to deviate from that.

Hope you're enjoying the series,
WoT

P.s.: Sorry - i saw you answered this question to some other guys. Sorry for posting ouble!


hi

i just started NL HU and already saw the dogisheads Up series and think it was pretty good! When i saw you openraisingrange you spoke about in the first episode i get a bit confused. You openraise only 35% from the button (you don´t show K8o and Q7o etc. in your charts) - i don´t unerstand why playing sooo tight? Gman and Dogishea spoke about openraising about 75% from the button? where ist my fault in unerstanding?

regards

Is there a reason that the starting hands for the button for offsuit connectors you left out Q9o+?

I'm watching the series a year after it was released. Just thought it was hilarious that the guy who bought in for 40bb and hit+ran Wilt for like $5 is now a big winner at 5000NL HU. Maybe he saw the video and was inspired by it?