News

Finnish High Stakes Player won $1,4 MILLION during four days

Finnish high-stakes legend Sami “LrsLzk” Kelopuro wrote a couple of days ago on his poker-blog that he won over $1,4 million dollars during the period of four days at the beginning of July. The majority of his winning came from an unknown person in the PartyPoker’s $100/200 PLO Heads-Up table. I was waiting on 100/200 […]

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Investigation

Limit Hold’em Heads-Up Tournament Strategy

To mix things up a bit, I spent one evening playing limit hold’em heads-up tournaments on PokerStars. Like many of us, who started poker at the beginning of the 2000s, I have some history with limit hold’em. In the old days Limit Hold’em was the game of choice, and No-Limit was an upcoming game. I used […]

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Daily fast

Heads-Up Hyper-Turbo Tournament

Hand 1: The Villain limps the button and I check Q♦2♦ from the big blind. The flop is Q♣T♠K♦ and I check my middle pair as I would check my whole range in this spot. The villain checks behind us. The turn is 4♣ and now there are multiple draws available and I want to […]

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Uncategorized

Variance in Poker Tournaments

What differentiates poker from all other games is variance. It’s a game of luck and skill wherein the long-run best players will win, but short-term winning players will lose regularly to less talented players. If you think of any other strategy game, you’ll find out fast which player is a better one. In poker and […]

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HUD tips

How to use Continuation Bet Limped Pot Stat

One of the most beneficial HUD-statistic for a heads-up hyper-turbo player is the continuation bet limped pot stat. It shows how often an opponent takes the initiative and bet (out of the position) on the flop in circumstances where the preflop action is limp-check. I have noticed that most of the low-stakes players have a […]

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Daily fast

Heads-Up Hyper-Turbo at PartyPoker

Today in the Daily Fast, I decided to play a heads-up hyper-turbo tournament at PartyPoker. As before, I will go through every hand I play and explain my actions. Blind level 1: (10/20) Hand 1: I limp K♥2♥ from the button. The villain raises to $70 and I fold my hand. (stack $480) Hand 2: […]

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