In a typical heads up sit and go tournament, you should be: You should not just be limping a lot more, because by raising with most of your hands you will be putting extra pressure on your opponent and increasing the chances of winning the blinds and antes. You will be contributing at least a small blind to every pot, and to make up for that you’ll have to loosen your starting hand requirements even more than at a 6-Max table. Now let’s think about heads up play, with only two players at a table: you should be playing many if not most of the hands dealt to you. You have to widen your pre-flop hand selection to include lesser hands to make up for paying the blinds so often. On top of that, if you are playing attentive players, they should soon catch on to the fact that you’re playing premium hands only, and you’ll have an even harder time getting paid off. Playing a very tight style won’t be enough anymore, since you won’t be hitting those premium hands often enough to counter the blinds hitting you at an increased rate. Now consider a 6-handed game: the blinds hit you more frequently – twice every 6 hands now – and you need to loosen your starting hand requirements to make up for it. Of course, opposing players will catch on to your super-tight style, so you have to switch it up every so often, but essentially you are able to largely focus on playing only premium hands if that’s your chosen approach.

This is a product of the low number of players in the game.Ĭonsider a full 10-handed table: the blinds hit you twice every 10 hands and you can probably do well playing a tight-aggressive style, taking few risks until the rising blinds start to seriously shrink your stack. The key factor in a successful heads up poker strategy is undoubtedly aggression.

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