My First SNG single table...Comments on my heads up???

[Karak567]

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When you say push, you are referring to AI?

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Yes.

If I sensed an opponent is weak/tight, the style you were playing, I start pushing literally every hand. Before you catch on I'll have taken half your stack in blinds.

[stragf]

OK. I understand, but where is the line in getting aggressive and backing off? If I start to push and go for the throat, and it's not there, then your chips are potentially gone on poor hands, or am I missing something?

[shadyridr]

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OK. I understand, but where is the line in getting aggressive and backing off? If I start to push and go for the throat, and it's not there, then your chips are potentially gone on poor hands, or am I missing something?

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Pushing takes all the decision making out of the equation. Push with good hands, fold with poor hands, rarely call. You should barely be seeing any flops. If your playing a heads-up chump (no offense but according to this hand history Id consider you one) just raising instead of pushing will work too.

[Karak567]

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If your playing a heads-up chump (no offense but according to this hand history Id consider you one) just raising instead of pushing will work too.

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That's really bad advice. Push, don't raise. Just raising with the blinds that high is for "heads up chumps."

[shadyridr]

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If your playing a heads-up chump (no offense but according to this hand history Id consider you one) just raising instead of pushing will work too.

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That's really bad advice. Push, don't raise. Just raising with the blinds that high is for "heads up chumps."

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I agree it is bad advice and I always push but this guy folded to many raises (LOL). Seemed to work for his opponent. Im just saying if you're playing a really bad opponent he'll even fold to raises.

[ChuckyB]

You're going to get chopped down in pushing some bad hands...even a blind squirrel finds a nut. But just quickly scanning your original post, there are so many cards that went check-check (and I didn't see your opponent check-raise) that a bet would have taken them down -- regardless of the cards you held.

Don't push all-in every time when you steal. Even a single bet into a two-bet pot can be enough. Try different bets (pot-sized, over-betting, single bets) and see what your opponent does. At the level I assume you're at (which is the level I play at) if you get raised or check-raised your opponent has the real deal.

You'll see that being aggressive really, really, really pays off. I started playing $6 PP SNGs on June 1. 32 SNGs later, I've been in the money 19 times and I'm up over $160. All thanks to being more and more aggressive.

[shadyridr]

Heads up play comes down to luck and aggression. There should barely be any strategy.

[microbet]

You are probably feeling ganged up on. I'm not going to help.

You played nearly every hand badly. Based on the way you play head up, it is almost certain that you play 3 handed and 4 handed and 5 handed incorrectly.

It's your first one, so there's no reason you should know how to play these single table tournaments. Search around here and you'll figure it out.

[stragf]

Could you elaborate some on 3/4/5 way play some, please? I have big shoulders, but my balls are tender, so I'n not feeling ganged up on...YET [img]/images/graemlins/grin.gif[/img]

[microbet]

Pretty tough to say anything meaningful in one post. The best thing to do is search out the first post by The_Shadow and read the threads he links to. There is a guide by Aleomagus which is a very good start.

When you start getting to around 5 players and the blinds are getting pretty high, you should start finding places to steal blinds. You decide where by considering position, your stack size, the stack sizes of the blinds and your cards. You steal with big bets. 2.5 x the Big blinds to allin. Almost never put in more than 30% of your stack without pushing.

Be careful when there are 4 left, but you will probably have to keep stealing, and even if you don't have to, it will probably be the right thing to do.

Generally in the later part of the game try and be the first one in the pot.

When you are in the money, you should be more aggressive still and when head up you should be very aggressive.

Ok, well this response is totally inadequate. It takes a lot of work to write a guide and it's been done better than I could do it. There is a FAQ by citanul in here that is also helpful. There is a search function that lets you search by poster.

Most people at the tables, after seeing a very good player play the endgame, think that he/she is a total idiot.