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Explanation of Heads up

There are two different scenarios where we will find ourselves

playing heads up poker.

1. We are playing 🛡 a heads up cash game. Either we are

deliberately choosing to play 2-handed, or we are playing a ring-game where 🛡 the other

players have either left or haven’t joined yet.

2. We have reached the final table of a

tournament and 🛡 there are only two players left.

Note that a hand may often be described

as “heads up” even if multiple players 🛡 were dealt into the hand. This might occur when

only 2 players see the flop after all other players fold 🛡 preflop. “We saw a flop heads

up after open-raising preflop and getting one cold-caller”.

Example of Heads Up used in

a 🛡 sentence -> It’s often said that heads up cash games require more skill than short

handed or full ring cash 🛡 games.

How to Use Heads up as Part of Your Poker

Strategy

While many professional cash game players choose to play six-max 🛡 or full-ring

variants, a subset of professional cash players make most of their money playing heads

up games. It’s generally 🛡 believed that expert heads up cash game players have the

potential to make more money than six-max and full-ring players. 🛡 This is due to the

ability to direct all of one’s volume specifically towards playing weaker opposition.

Ring-game players will 🛡 often be dealing with a mixture of skilled and non-skilled

opponents whereas if a heads-up player decides his opponent is 🛡 overly skilled he has

the ability to walk away from the game and select new opposition.

Exact strategy

adjustments for playing 🛡 heads up will depend on the poker variant, but here are some

general guidelines.

1. Preflop ranges will typically be looser 🛡 when playing heads up.

While a ring game player might often elect to play 20-25% of his holdings, a heads 🛡 up

player will usually enter the pot with closer to 60-70% of starting hands.

2. Made

hands on the later streets 🛡 are typically worth more in heads up games. For example in

Hold’em, holdings such as Ace-high may be strong enough 🛡 to win a fair share of pots

postflop. The same hand in a tight full-ring game is barely worth

anything.

Deliberately 🛡 only targeting weak opposition when playing heads up is

colloquially referred to as “bumhunting” and carries a negative connotation.

Exclusively 🛡 targeting recreational players is considered bad for the poker ecology, but

it’s also hard to argue with the business sense 🛡 of refusing to play strong opposition.

So, while playing only weak opponents is excellent for making money, it is looked 🛡 down

upon by some portion of the poker community.