Hand of the Week

How to Play Suited Broadway Cards

This time on hand of the week I decided to write about how to play suited broadway cards in heads-up hyper-turbo tournaments. I chose King-Ten suited (KTs) as an example of a suited broadway hand. The fact that makes KTs interesting is its’ playability. Last time my analysis focused on playing from the position (small […]

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Strategy Series

How to Play Poker Against Maniacs

It’s evening and you sit down on a heads-up hyper-turbo tournament lobby and an unknown player joins the game. Right away, he goes all-in on the first hand. After that, he continues to go all-in in with every single hand. You fold a couple of mediocre hands and soon you notice that you have lost […]

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Strategy Series

How To Play an Offsuit Ace

First hand of the heads-up hyper-turbo tournament and you get dealt Ax offsuit. You make a standard min-bet and the villain three-bet shoves instantly. What should we do? Which offsuit Aces should be folded and which not? In this article, I will teach you how to play an offsuit ace in the early levels of […]

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Heads-Up Cash Game GTO Charts released

High-Stakes Grudge Match between Daniel Negreanu and Doug Polk has electrified the heads-up cash game tables on many poker networks. The games have been so good that I decided to make a temporary transition to cash-game player. As many of us know, the Heads-up cash game is a different animal than heads-up sit and gos, […]

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News

WCOOP Heads-Up Progressive Total KO announced

PokerStars has published the schedule of the annual World Championship of Online Poker and fortunately, NLHE WCOOP Heads-up is included in the program on the 1st of September. Once again, the format will be a recreational-friendly heads-up Zoom with progressive bounties. Progressive total KO means that the entire prize pool is in player bounties, which […]

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News

What is the best form of Poker?

Check out a three-point list of why (in my opinion) heads-up hyper turbo sit & go is the best form of poker. Hand Ranges One thing that makes full-ring games boring to me is the fact that most of the people are playing somewhat static “optimal” opening ranges. Anyone can google and download the optimal 9/8/6max-ranges […]

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Strategy Series

Calling When The Pot Odds Are Favourable

One common mistake that you see players make – especially in the lower limit heads-up hyper-turbo tournaments – is folding to bet when they have odds to call with almost every possible hand. In general, you don’t have to be a math geek to succeed in heads-up hypers. Most of the spots are easy to […]

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News from Headsuphyper.com

Hello! I’m sorry for the long radio silence on my site but I got a new job last fall and I have been super busy working. My site is still up and I have a lot of content that I haven’t released yet. I have plans to bring headsuphyper to live but unfortunately, I haven’t […]

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Daily fast

Exploitative Strategy in Heads-Up Hyper-Turbo Tournament

This time on the daily fast, I use an exploitative strategy in heads-up hyper-turbo tournament against an aggressive villain. Heads-up hyper-turbos are played with 2 minute blind levels and with starting stack of 25 big blinds. Blind level 1 ($10/20): Hand 1: I min-bet T♣T♦ from the button. The villain calls and the flop comes […]

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