pockerstars.com – Applying Pressure When at The Heads up Stage of Tournaments:
Posted on October 28, 2008
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pockerstars – How best to play when you reach the heads up stage of a tournament is something which is open to interpretation, but it is my belief that the best way forward is to keep pressure on your opponents with raises and shoves. This is perhaps best applied to situations when you are the stronger of the two stacks, but as the saying goes "attack is the best form of defence".
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The large blinds which damage your stack in these latter stages of a tournament are important here, because if you are the aggressor, you should pick up a few of these blinds early on, giving yourself room to breathe, and creating the opposite situation for your opponent.
The knock on effect of this can often be that your opponent is fearful of limping in and trying to see a flop because they know an aggressive move is coming which will force them to invest more chips. Opponents can then find themselves on the backfoot, and waiting for a good hand to challenge you with. The fact that such hands are not picked up all that often can only be good for you as you will be the one collecting most of the blinds in the meantime.
What happens five hands later when they find a reasonable hand to take you on with, you might ask. By that stage you will have picked up enough in blinds, for you to go in as a 40-60 underdog without being too concerned. Because the point is, it makes it cheaper for you to call when you take into account the chips your aggression has already earned you thus far.
If you are the bigger chipstack, it is of course true you do not wish to double up your opponent, but personally, I feel the dividends that heads up aggression pays, outweighs the possibility you will go in behind and lose the hand.
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