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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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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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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Heads-Up Zoom Tournament Strategy

For late Friday entertainment, I played the $16.50, NLHE, Heads-Up Turbo Zoom, Progressive Total KO, $15 000 GTD tournament on PokerStars. My initial thought was to examine what is the skill level nowadays in Heads Up Zoom tournaments. Heads-Up Turbo Zoom tournaments have been my bread and butter for years besides heads-up hyper-turbos. You can get […]

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