Best site for HU Cashgames`?
 

Gooday to you [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

Recently I've been trying to find a site which offers a good rake structure for HU players, but also offers a lot of HU games! It seems to me that there is a lack of HU games, especially NL on many sites.

Would you have any tips of where to go by any chance? I was adviced to go to PokerStars, but it just seems like a rakeback deal is really needed when playing HU! Any recommendations? [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

Thanks in advance!

Re: Best site for HU Cashgames`?
 

who advised you to go to stars? they don't have any hu cash games.

and what level of stakes are you talking about?

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Oh can't remember the posters name at this moment [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

Well I'm actually talking about all levels. Even though I'm not up to high-stakes yet I plan to get there. And I have this thing about making my sites "my home", if you know what I mean so I'd prefer to be able to stick around [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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who advised you to go to stars? they don't have any hu cash games.


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They have 2c/4c. [img]/images/graemlins/tongue.gif[/img]

Nobody has a really good rake structure that I know of. UB is pretty ok, has the most stakes available, and it's generally easy to get a game there.

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Ah, that's UltimateBet is it? Or Unibet? [img]/images/graemlins/blush.gif[/img]

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Ultimate Bet. He's right, they're the best as far as i can tell. I just can't stand the interface there.

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I thought that the rake-structure for heads-up on UB was really poor (don't know....just going off memory).

I think that some of the high-ish stakes heads-up perhaps takes place on Crypto.
not sure how the heads-up rake is over there though.


Prima and Crypto seem to have quite a few heads-up tables.
I'm not sure how the action is on those or how the rake-structure is....
but the fact that they have seperate sections for 1-on-1 tables puts them ahead of Stars and Party in that department (and RB is available on both crypto and prima).


My hunch is that either might have better heads-up rake than UB (but only play the dollar-tables on crypto...the rake on the brit-sterling and euro heads-up tables would be a killer).

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From what I've heard, Crypto has much, much worse rake HU than UB does. But I don't play on Crypto.

UB caps rake at 50c per hand, which is as good as I've found.

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The rake on Crypto will unavoidably kill you HU, at least at the small stakes.

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Thanks for all the replies!

I just have to ask one more thing. Is there any difference in value when playing FL and NL? It seems to me that there are generally more FL HU games than NL running. Why is this you think?

Thanks [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

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probably because there are more fixed limit players in general.

I am a NL player, and strongly recommend heads-up NL play. In a ring game, you can usually tell within a couple minutes wether you'll stack the guy you're playing heads-up.

I am totally biased (I hate fixed limit poker in general), but I think that heads-up limit games are silly, unless it's in sit n go form, where you're guaranteed to see enough of your opponent's hands to get a good feel for him.

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UB caps rake at 50c per hand

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can somebody confirm this?? (too lazy to look it up myself right now).
I really don't know about this stuff and am sorry to doubt you...but I thought i had read on here on more than one occasion that the heads-up rake on UB was kinda sucky.

Of course, the quality of the HU rake-structure might vary by site depending on limit played (3/6 HU might be lousy on site-A...but 50/100 HU it might be the best out there).


I rail-birded a 2+2'er playing 100/200 or something against a donk HU on UB.
2+2'er clobbered him but they kept it friendly.
2+2'er suggested that if they want to play again they do it on a different site (because of rake considerations I believe).
That was another instance where I got the impression that UB wasn't the best for HU.

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PokerRoom

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UB caps rake at 50c per hand

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can somebody confirm this?? (too lazy to look it up myself right now).
I really don't know about this stuff and am sorry to doubt you...but I thought i had read on here on more than one occasion that the heads-up rake on UB was kinda sucky.


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I do play in the games pretty regularly. But it's not as if you have to take my word for it: here's the rake schedule

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http://www.ultimatebet.com/rules-strategy/rake.html

HU NL caps at 0.50