Rake is a killer heads up. You need to have a significant edge (or 80% rakeback) to make it profitable.

I once played $500NL heads up for about 20 hands. Myself and my opponent had both lost around $20 so I quit.

Whilst this is an interesting discussion about rake, if you look at the title I was talking about SnGs.

I have noticed from the leaderboard on Sharkscope that the biggest earners tend to play high limit heads up sngs so I fancied giving it a try. For example the leader on sharkscope only has an 8% ROI but as he has invested over $3,000,000 he has made over $240,000. He tends to play a lot of $1000 or $2000 + heads up SnGs.

I'm finding that you can play loads of them and therefore get your investment up quickly which I think is the key to winning on-line.


I have currently played 20 $33 ones and won 12 for a $60 profit. Mind you I have been hitting a lot of flops! I think I'll give that "play opposite to the other guy" technique a try tonight.

Any other suggestions????

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Bad Beat of the week 27/08/2006:

:kh :jd

Flop - :jc :3s :6d I raise 2/3 pot, Villian calls.

Turn :kd - I raise to put villian all in, he calls

he flips over :4d :4s :eek:

River :4c :rant: :mad: :rant: :eek:

the same could be said about the buy in tho. i know from experience, albeit on the cheaper heads up sng's that you need to be winning about 55-60% of games to break even.

actually that's a very good point, I have noticed that if you play 11 $33 SnGs, win 6 and loose 5 you actually lose $3

Still the point was more about strategy rather than rake so anyone else got thoughts on how to play these?

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Bad Beat of the week 27/08/2006:

:kh :jd

Flop - :jc :3s :6d I raise 2/3 pot, Villian calls.

Turn :kd - I raise to put villian all in, he calls

he flips over :4d :4s :eek:

River :4c :rant: :mad: :rant: :eek:

I'm not familiar with other people on the forum's HU play, but I play a lot and if you want me to rail, I'll do it if you hit me up on AIM. Av8tor009 consistently pwns people HU and that's a great choice to have on your rail. He never gets pwnd. He applies t33h pwnage.

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