Heads up poker championship:

**daneblazer** · 10-24-13, 01:38 PM

Make it happen SBR

**Auto Donk** · 10-24-13, 02:18 PM

as long as I get to start with russianc_cksuc_ingrocket, I think this is a great idea......

love, AD

**tatddy** · 10-25-13, 12:39 PM

They tried once I think...didn't play. I recall the software/setup being a complete fail.

**Wulfman14** · 10-25-13, 01:04 PM

Originally posted by tatddy

They tried once I think...didn't play. I recall the software/setup being a complete fail.

sit and go HU , there was never a championship tourney heads up.

**Optional** · 10-25-13, 01:07 PM

What do people who like HU play enjoy about it?

**GUMMO77** · 10-25-13, 03:49 PM

Originally posted by Wulfman14

sit and go HU , there was never a championship tourney heads up.

They did have a heads up championship about a year or a year in half ago, and it was a fail. What happened was when you won your particular match you were instantly thrown into another heads up battle with the next open player. Fair enough. But you would take all the chips with you from you previous matches, which means if played and won two previous games but your opponent beat three people then he/she would have a chip lead before a single card is was dealt. I got rather deep in the HU tournament, but my matches were longer than some others, so one of the guys I faced had a 2-1 chip lead on me before the match even started.

**Triple_D_Bet** · 10-25-13, 04:02 PM

Originally posted by GUMMO77

They did have a heads up championship about a year or a year in half ago, and it was a fail. What happened was when you won your particular match you were instantly thrown into another heads up battle with the next open player. Fair enough. But you would take all the chips with you from you previous matches, which means if played and won two previous games but your opponent beat three people then he/she would have a chip lead before a single card is was dealt. I got rather deep in the HU tournament, but my matches were longer than some others, so one of the guys I faced had a 2-1 chip lead on me before the match even started.

That seems kind of insane...was that a requested format or something?

**tatddy** · 10-25-13, 04:10 PM

Originally posted by Triple_D_Bet

That seems kind of insane...was that a requested format or something?

More of a function of SBR heads not knowing anything about poker.

Ready Shoot Aim

**Wulfman14** · 10-25-13, 09:55 PM

Originally posted by GUMMO77

They did have a heads up championship about a year or a year in half ago, and it was a fail. What happened was when you won your particular match you were instantly thrown into another heads up battle with the next open player. Fair enough. But you would take all the chips with you from you previous matches, which means if played and won two previous games but your opponent beat three people then he/she would have a chip lead before a single card is was dealt. I got rather deep in the HU tournament, but my matches were longer than some others, so one of the guys I faced had a 2-1 chip lead on me before the match even started.

thanks gummo. how did i miss that ? i mean a year , even 2 years ago i was here. although i did take breaks from sbr for a few months at a time during those periods. yea stacks should be reset def. huge stack is a huge advantage particularly heads up. well at least they tried. im sure they'll make an effort to try again. what were the prizes ? just curious ..

**GUMMO77** · 10-30-13, 12:19 PM

I can't remember what the point prizes were at all, because too much time has passed.

Much like when we had a weekend of 7card stud ring games, the SBR HU tournament lacked basic knowledge of anything to do with poker. It would be easy for SBR to ask a handful of posters on here how to properly run a HU tournament (other tournaments as well) and add different ring games -- most people don't like NL O/8 as previously posted over the years--so the poker part of this site moves forward. The ring games have really taken a hit this year, and I don't know what SBR, if anything, has planned to improve that.

**hockey216** · 10-30-13, 04:18 PM

Ohh baby would I like a heads up poker championship.

**daneblazer** · 10-30-13, 07:44 PM

What happened was that it was a beta-test tournament. We had several posters sign up, the prizes weren't that great but it something cool and different. The main problem was that it wasn't structured like a true tournament. When one player won a match, they were instantly whisked away to another game against another player and kept their chip stack instead of waiting for a round to finish. You had guys with 24,000 chip stacks starting off their match against 6,000 chip stacks. I went deep in it...got 2nd, 3rd, 4th something like that I can't remember, but I met my maker when me and my measly 48k ish stack went up against someone with close to 250k.

I think the blinds kept escalating too. We made suggested changes in a feed back thread and the format was never heard from again.

**RudyRuetigger** · 10-31-13, 10:55 AM

oh i do remember that.

i played, think i went out in 2nd rd

**RudyRuetigger** · 10-31-13, 10:59 AM

we could set up a cash game tourney.

send a designated amount to someone, say 200 pts. this way rake is held fairly minimal and people have to show for each round (ie win first 2 rds and decide your 400 pt win is enough and quitting).

play .25/.50 full stack. the winner of that advances and keeps points won along the way.

**RudyRuetigger** · 10-31-13, 11:19 AM

Originally posted by Optional

What do people who like HU play enjoy about it?

everything

fast pace

hand reading

player reading

winrates

tilt

thanks for the pts biteme, i will try not to let you down this time....unlike the last 1 or 2

**daneblazer** · 10-31-13, 11:25 AM

Ideally in HU instead of battling 4-8 other players to isolate a weaker player you're already isolated against him. Its very table dependent and can have higher variance. You aren't making much money playing HU against Phil Galfond, but if you table select well you can do well for yourself.

You see these online regs bum hunting with a million HU tables open but once you go in there and 3bet them a time or two they bail.

**BigDeem5** · 10-31-13, 03:07 PM

I would dominate this.

**GUMMO77** · 10-31-13, 04:41 PM

Originally posted by RudyRuetigger

we could set up a cash game tourney.

send a designated amount to someone, say 200 pts. this way rake is held fairly minimal and people have to show for each round (ie win first 2 rds and decide your 400 pt win is enough and quitting).

play .25/.50 full stack. the winner of that advances and keeps points won along the way.

I'd be in if we got enough people that didn't flake out.

**Auto Donk** · 10-31-13, 06:08 PM

given Rudy's dismantling of my recent rollover attempt, I will only play it if he's in the opposite bracket; and then the best I can hope for is a runner up prize..... dude absolutely owned me.......

**V4Value** · 11-01-13, 01:45 AM

Originally posted by Optional

What do people who like HU play enjoy about it?

The money!

Different people enjoy different formats, people play the games they are good at and those that don't bore them. I, for example, hate full ring, 9 man's, and prefer 6max games but HU are the best to me (in ROI).

**Triple_D_Bet** · 11-01-13, 02:19 AM

Originally posted by RudyRuetigger

we could set up a cash game tourney.

send a designated amount to someone, say 200 pts. this way rake is held fairly minimal and people have to show for each round (ie win first 2 rds and decide your 400 pt win is enough and quitting).

play .25/.50 full stack. the winner of that advances and keeps points won along the way.

Count me in!

**Optional** · 11-01-13, 06:12 AM

Originally posted by V4Value

The money!

Different people enjoy different formats, people play the games they are good at and those that don't bore them. I, for example, hate full ring, 9 man's, and prefer 6max games but HU are the best to me (in ROI).

I get that. Horses for courses pip pip.

That's kind of why I asked what you like about it, I want to know. Maybe it will spark my interest in playing if I get it. Right now I often sit out if a ring game goes down to 2 people.

So what do you mean the money? People bet more?