SwingSwingSwing's Heads Up Poker Journey

A quick state-of-play post to wind up 2010.

I did splash out on Samuel Smith's heads up poker course and for $40 it was a bargain. It's a bit of work-in-progress as Sam hasn't got all the content finalised. But it's only $40. I would fully expect the price to go up once it's complete.

The first lesson details a very simple method for playing heads up sit'n'gos. Basically, tight out of position, loose aggressive in position. Not rocket science I know, but one thing I had noticed about my game since following Brokerstar's course was a definite decrease in aggression. This is not a slight on Brokerstar's teachings but more of a failing of my style of play. My natural style, I think, is a passive style and while this should be a good fit for Brokerstar's course, I had taken things too far and had become ultra-passive and was missing obvious opportunities for taking down pots. So Sam's first lesson has helped me reintroduce controlled aggression back into my game.

And results have been going well. My win rate in December in the $1s and $2s has been 59% which translates to 8% ROI for $1s and 9.8% for the $2s. Not exceptional but OK.

I'm still running at a loss overall in the $2s but it's slowly improving. ROI is -2.6%. In fact, looking at my all-in EV, if I had had average luck over the last month I would be back at even.

So that's me signing off for 2010. See you all in 2011.

Samuel Smith, founder of the excellent 'Risk Oriented' heads up poker website, has just launched a heads-up poker course for the ridiculous price of only $40.

He's a 7% winner at heads-up SNGs with over 10,000 games under his belt which means he's over $48,000 in profit so this guy knows what he's talking about.  

Click Here! for the details.

The recovery is still on track :-)

I'm now running at 6.8% ROI at the $1 heads up SNGs which is a win rate of 58.8%. Not bad.

At the $2s, I'm still running at loss but it has improved to -3% ROI, 52% ITM. And even better, I'm back in profit overall. Woo Hoo! I am a winning heads up SNG player again.

If I just look at results since I called in the cavalry (9th September), I'm now running at 22% ROI (67% ITM) at the $1s, which is very nice indeed.