Who wants to teach me how to play heads-up

[xTJx]

I play poker tournaments 3 times a week, and I've come in 2nd five times now, and I cannot seem to pull the trigger. Tonight I just got unlucky and was overall happy with my play, but like common.

[leftstranded]

you have to play a fair amount of hands. calling the small blind is usually a decent idea

[xTJx]

you have to play a fair amount of hands. calling the small blind is usually a decent idea
It lasted about 4 hands. I had:
J Q suited - All In - She folded
A 8 - All In Call - She had A J and won
10 3 - Called and folded after flop
A 7 - All In - She had pocket 6's and won

[ThatGuy]

sucks you lost to a girl

the best way is to just be aggressive and use reading skills. i would hit up a bookstore and check out mike caro's book of poker tells if you haven't before

[xTJx]

sucks you lost to a girl

the best way is to just be aggressive and use reading skills. i would hit up a bookstore and check out mike caro's book of poker tells if you haven't before
Hmm...there's a book of poker tells? I know a few, and I use them to my advantage to get callers.

Tonight I played aggressive, and I was very happy with how I played.

[kg00d]

You're just bad at poker tyler, plain and simple.

[xTJx]

You're just bad at poker tyler, plain and simple.
I'm still waiting for you to come out and play in person. I'll bring the pwn.

[xbrokendownx]

i play a ton of poker here at school


the main thing i can tell you is, just play tight. honestly, i know it gets boring to throw away a lot of hands, but its for the best. just wait til you get a monster hand and raise a decent amount, but not too much to scare off the players.

for example, when you had that first hand heads up, thats a monster hand. dont go all in, you shouldve probably just called or thrown in a small raise, to see if you can milk some more money out of her

[leftstranded]

sounds like the pushing all in didn't work. gotta raise a few and not all in heads up

[bigmike]

It lasted about 4 hands. I had:
J Q suited - All In - She folded
A 8 - All In Call - She had A J and won
10 3 - Called and folded after flop
A 7 - All In - She had pocket 6's and won
Why move all in if you've got her out chipped? No need to push all in when a standard raise would take down the pot and if the opponent calls you can play after the flop.

[leftstranded]

Why move all in if you've got her out chipped? No need to push all in when a standard raise would take down the pot and if the opponent calls you can play after the flop.
that's kinda what i was trying to get at

[bigmike]

that's kinda what i was trying to get at
Yeah. there's more skill to it than just pushing all in every time you have a decent hand.

[leftstranded]

Yeah. there's more skill to it than just pushing all in every time you have a decent hand.
that's why she was able to win. she read her opponent well

[ThatGuy]

another suggestion i would give is read dan harrington's book. he has a formula that shows you when you should make an all in stand. very helpful