Heads-up hustlers? (semi-LC)
 

So I sat down to play a heads-up SnG at UltimateBet a few minutes ago, and I was paired with an opponent who didn't seem to know anything about heads-up play.

He never raised his button, he folded way too much, and he'd check check check check every time he missed the flop. I picked up every pot in which he didn't hit the board.

When I beat him before the 25/50 blind level, the little dialog asked if he wanted a rematch, and he instantly accepted. "Sweet," I thought, "another easy $30."

After the second hand I knew I'd been "hustled". All of the sudden, the guy was raising every button. Reraising all of the loose raises that I'd come to make. Picking up every pot in which I didn't hit the flop... by putting in a strategic and huge 3-bet.

He had me so off-balance that he took the second match pretty easily by picking up all of the aggressive chip-spewing moves that I'd come to make against him, and I didn't adjust properly until I had very few chips.

He won the third match after I donked off most of my chips when his two-card straight beat my top and middle pair, and I couldn't recover.

Despite the first match, though, he was a very good heads-up player.

Do you think this 'hustling' strategy is common? Have you ever seen it before?

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That was me stepping in for the dude I am tutoring.

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How is that even a hussle? He could have just beatien you th e first time and saved a lot of time and still ended up +$30.

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And, hero has to accept a third match after villian wins the second one for this to work at all.

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Or he challenges hero to $100 HU, or an increased ammount of money.

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Damn good match. Wanna do another one for $1K?

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I think hustling for 30 bucks seems unlikely. Perhaps it just took him that long to get a read, or maybe his friend took over. Who knows...?

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Keep in mind that I agree with all of you doubters who are presenting logical reasons why he's probably not 'hustling'... but I really couldn't come up with any other explanation for his play.

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perhaps he was testing different HU strategies?

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perhaps he was testing different HU strategies?

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LOL.. strategy 1, only play the nuts

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Keep in mind that I agree with all of you doubters who are presenting logical reasons why he's probably not 'hustling'... but I really couldn't come up with any other explanation for his play.

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Tag teaming you with a buddy?

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Tag teaming you with a buddy?

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LOL.. as xorbie pointed out, he could just have the 'buddy' who knows how to play heads-up take me on the first time.

If he wins, great. He got the same $30 he got by "tag-teaming" me into what was a pretty even match the third time around.

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You can't possibly have enough of an edge in a heads-up match to make throwing the first game worthwhile. Maybe if you would be inclined to play for $200 after that....

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Maybe he just was colddecked the whole first game and got a great run the second.

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Tag teaming you with a buddy?

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LOL.. as xorbie pointed out, he could just have the 'buddy' who knows how to play heads-up take me on the first time.

If he wins, great. He got the same $30 he got by "tag-teaming" me into what was a pretty even match the third time around.

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Well maybe they weren't tag teaming you as part of a diabolical plan to trick you, but just because they were sharing an account/computer/playing together, etc. "Ok, my turn dude, let me show you how its done!"