Head’s Up Poker
One of our favorite games to play is Hold’em Head’s Up Tournaments. Head’s Up Tournaments need to played a little different than regular tournaments, because pots odds are not as important as in a full seated tournament. The value of suited connectors and looking for the flush become less valuable because you wont get the odds you would if you were facing a few opponents rather than just one.
Aggression becomes very important in Head’s Up and a pair will hold up much better than if you were facing 9 or 10 opponents in a regular tournament. Playing Head’s Tournaments also gives you some practice if you were playing in bigger tourney’s and make to the final table and eventually trying to win the tournament.
We like Absolute Poker and Ultimate Bet the most when playing Head’s Up. Both sites offer a great selection of Head’s Up tournaments and site traffic is very good so there is always an opponent to face.
At both sites Head’s Up tournaments start at a $1 buy-in and go all way up to a $5000 buy-in. Hold’em, Omaha and 7 Stud are offered Head’s Up with Hold’em getting the most players.
They also offer a standard blind format where the blinds increase every 10 minutes, Turbo (5 min blinds) and Ultra Turbo Tournaments where the blinds increase every 2.5 minutes. If you are really looking for instant gratification you play in the Ultra Turbo tourney’s with 300 starting Chips.
Other poker sites which offers good Head’s Tournament selection are Fulltilt Poker, Carbon Poker and PlayersOnlyPoker.
You can read more about Head’s Up Tournament’s here in our poker strategy section.