[vpFREE] Re: Luck versus Skill question for Iguana and Texas Hold'em players

--- In vpFREE@yahoogroups.com, Barry Glazer <b.glazer@...> wrote:
>One of the skills in heads-up poker is identifying the style of your opponent, especially any identifiable aspects of his/her game that he/she is unaware of and therefore can't change at will. Since that's not in my skill set, I don't voluntarily play heads-up poker, although if I do well enough in a tournament to be among the last two players, I have no choice :) When that happens, I apply book knowledge and wish I had more experience.


"Heads up" can also occur in ring games, like blind versus blind or button versus blinds, or everyone leaves the table except two online. I would say that if you're heads up, you need to figure out if your opponent will fold, and if they will fold what are the conditions needed to get them to fold, because if they fold, you win. Notice so far that what your actual hand is doesn't matter, you only care about your own hand if you're going to showdown. In heads up play, a fair amount of the time neither side has a hand, well, unless you consider say jack high to be a hand, in which case you're probably a maniac. So there's a lot of bluffing going on, and that's the old game of chicken, or who's the greater maniac. If you can't bring yourself to bluff, you probably shouldn't play heads up, conversely if you love bluffing, or you are actually a maniac, heads up is your game.






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