My Poker History & HU

I've been playing Poker for a year and half now, spending quite a lot of my free time with it. I first played small stake (2-10$) 1-5 table NL SNGs @ PokerStars with some success, but then switched to FullTilt.

I've built my roll playing limit holdem (3/6) and lost most of it in short-handed NL games :). I've been using PokerTracker to track my play and I my results say that I am definately not very good at shorthanded NL play.

A couple of weeks ago I talked with a friend of mine who has been playing NL a lot and suggested that I try HU NL SNGs to improve my game reading skills in NL one to ones. I've been quite interested in NL games (even though I've lost a bunch :) so I was intrigued.

So, last weekend I started playing HU NL SNGs to hone my skills in one-to-one battles.

I experimented first with Poker Academy, against the 'better' computer opponents, but found out quite quickly their patterns and how to beat them. (I won 16/20 of the matches I played). So it seems that as HU the computer oppontents are really bad.

Then I switched to NL HU SNGs on FullTilt where I've played 17 HU's from which I have won 8. I've found HU to be quite enjoyable even though I have played not too many matches, so I'll think I'll stick to it for a while. Also I started this blog to maybe share my experiences about HU (as there was some talk at 2+2 about starting a 'peer review' blogroll about HU poker) and maybe poker in general.