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[QUOTE="MediaBLITZ, post: 1970295, member: 77190"]
NORMAL - playing heads up greatly reduces the odds of completing a monster hand, as opposed to:

a full table of players who will see that the average winning hand is only 2 pair - meaning 2 pair is a MONSTER when you are heads up with only two players.

So where you might go to showdown in heads up with 3rd or 4th pair (or even A high) - you will more than likely be folding that hand by the turn at a full table.

So yeah - NORMAL - you will have to put in a lot more hands to start seeing those big cards come together.  Sets, Straights, Flushes, Boats, etc are a lot more rare in heads up than a full table.

A very crude example would be a lottery draw.  Say we write on different pieces of paper all the different hands in poker and throw them in a hat.  Take two guys who each are blindfolded and get to pick one out of that hat.  What are the odds one of them pulls out a "great hand"?  Now have 10 guys do the same.  What are the odds one of them pulls out a "great hand"?  Still not great but it is 5 times better than only two guys.

Bottom Line - Heads up hold em is not about getting great hands.  You will not have that luxury.  It is a head game to outwit, outbluff, misdirect, and exploit your opponent.
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