Mike Turner - Crushing Low Stakes Poker: The Essential Guide to Dominating Low Stakes Sit n Gos, Volume 2: Heads-Up

Heads-up tournament play is intense, challenging and full of action. It is definitely not the easiest form of poker, but heads-up skills are key to achieving good tournament results. This book will teach you the essentials of heads-up play in a practical and easy to follow manner. We will take a close look at heads-up fundamentals, theory and strategy. Example hands with detailed analysis will bring concepts and ideas to life, showing you how to apply them in practice.

The Crushing Low Stakes Poker series is aimed at beginning and intermediate players who would like to make a nice side income playing online poker. The series provides solid strategy advice to consistently crush low stakes Sit n Gos. This book builds on the ideas developed in Volume 1 , which deals with general Sit n Go strategy. Volume 2 can be read separately, but for a thorough understanding of low stakes strategy it is recommended to also read the first book in the series.

If you have already been studying poker, you will probably have noticed that most poker books, articles and training videos do not specifically cover low stakes games. A missed opportunity, because the strategy and approach required for low stakes games are very different from medium and high stakes games. The Crushing Low Stakes Poker series fills that gap and explains the fundamental concepts and strategy in order to play low stakes Sit n Gos as profitably as possible.

Mike Turner has a lot of experience playing low stakes SnGs and has had great success playing them. His favorite game types are non-turbos and hyper turbos, and he specializes in heads-up and 6-max. Including bonuses and rakeback, Mike has earned more than $25,000 playing low stakes Sit n Gos .

In part 1 of this book we will discuss the fundamentals of heads-up tournament poker. We will outline the key principles of heads-up play and go over important topics such as hand strength, hand reading, manipulating ranges, and post-flop play on different board textures.

Part 2 deals with low stakes strategy. We will cover the differences between game theory optimal and exploitative play and explain why the latter one is the correct approach for low stakes games. We will also cover common playing tendencies of low stakes opponents and develop exploitative counter strategies.

Throughout the book we will use some poker terminology to describe heads-up play. When analyzing example hands we will refer to the players as Hero and Villain . The hands are played from the perspective of Hero, so try to put yourself in his shoes and think about what you would do in that situation.

When we use the term equity , we are referring to the expected value of a hand in a given situation. It can be expressed either as a percent chance of winning or the amount of chips a hand would win on average. The term is also used more generally by saying that a hand has good or bad equity.

We will also frequently refer to HUD statistics . A Heads-Up Display, or HUD, displays players statistics directly on an online poker table. HUDs can be used with poker tracking software such as PokerTracker or Holdem Manager.

If there are other terms in this book that you are unfamiliar with, you can look up their meaning in the glossary of poker terms in ).

Part 1:
Heads-Up Fundamentals