Re: Heads up Theory
quiz time: You have the option to play an average $55 PP SNG players heads up in a $50 freeze out as many times as you want at the blind level that you choose. If your only goal is to maximize the $ that you make, do you choose
A. 100 BB stacks
B. 10 BB stacks
C. 5 BB stacks
I think that one of the keys to Jmans post is realizing why C is the correct answer (at least I think its the correct answer, correct me if I'm wrong). There are two reasons for this:
1. Hourly rate
and more importantly
2. Average players suck at heads up, and even more so with big blinds because they will often make mathematically incorrect folds. When the OP states that pushing in his example will lead to a situation (shorter stacks) that favors the aggressive player, it doesn't so much imply that the good player is going to exploit the bad player by pushing but that the bad player is going to defeat himself by folding mathematically correct pushes. When your opponents lack a fundamental understanding of simple HU math you can best exploit this ignorance with shorter stacks.
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