The good news however is that improving your game has never been easier. Definitely not a fun time.īecause, of course, if you don’t take the time to review hands, to work with an equity calculator, to watch videos, to get coaching, how can you expect to compete against a player who does? Sort of like waking up with a world-class hangover when you didn’t even get to have a drink. 2) A Willingness to Make Study a PriorityĪnother trait that is extremely common among successful poker players in general, but one that is absolutely critical in the hyperturbo format where leaks can be located, exploited and capitalized-on so quickly that it can leave you dazed, confused and down 15 buy-ins in half a session with no idea where you are or what just happened. If you don’t have a similar passion for some aspect of the game, whatever it may be for you, it’s going to be very tough to sustain the same drive and enthusiasm as your opponents will during the long dark times that are inevitable in a game-format with so much short-term volatility. Nowhere is this more true than in HUHTs, where there are people waiting to battle you for lobby control literally around the clock. To quote Mark Cuban “you have to work like there is someone working 24 hours a day to take it away from you.” They spend their days and nights thinking about it, about how to achieve their goals, how to reach them more quickly, and more optimally.
Whether their motivation was driven by a love of competition, money, or working towards mastery of a unique skill-set, successful HUHT players are incredibly passionate about whatever aspect of the game is most important to them. However, they do seem to be particularly magnified in them in a way that I feel merits a deeper exploration. However, having been fortunate enough to spend a considerable amount of time with some of the best HU SNG players in the world, I quickly noticed how alike they all were in very specific ways.īefore exploring those, however, I want to stress that the characteristics outline below are, of course, not unique to HUHT players.
Success, of course, comes in many different forms. Anatomy of a Successful Heads-Up Hyper-Turbo Player In this second part we will look at the anatomy of a successful HUHT player and explore the attributes most important to success in these games. In the first part of our introduction to Heads-Up Hyper-Turbos (HUHT) we outlined the pros and cons of this format and dispelled its two most common myths, being a luck-based or all-in preflop game.
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