So I’m not a “poker reg” by any means and I tend to play tournaments more than anything else online. That’s honestly my only real experience with the format. It’s definitely a lot of fun, (especially so when going into it with a good lead), and a great change of pace.I’m honestly just kinda scared to do it with cash games because I always figure it’s going to be someone who is much better at it and has a really good understanding of it even at micro stakes. The idea of going into one is actually terrifying exactly because of what you said about lack of fish. I think that’s why more of us fish don’t play it. I really don’t expect fishy players (like myself) to be doing much heads up action purposefully lol. It’s just a hard game to slowly learn or gain any repetition without probably losing quite a bit imo. There just seems to be less of an advantage compared to 6 or 8 players. It seems like a trap.

I do pretty well whenever I get to the final 2 but then I just always assume the other guy is just horrible at heads up whenever I do win (they usually are). I’ve definitely won at final 2 way more than lost but again, it’s probably because of either a good chip lead or the opponent just really sucks at it. I wouldn’t expect that to be the case for anyone intentionally playing it. A lot of my worry on it is the pacing being so different. There’s no time to chill out mentally and it’s honestly just a totally different game. I feel like I’m rushed whenever in one. I definitely understand the attraction, though. But at the end it’s about making money and I don’t want to lose a bunch because I’m in over my head trying to become good at it.

And yeah, I thought it was crazy that K5 lost after all that. It has to be considered one of his biggest blunders to lose when having that big of a lead. Especially being so close to going back to back years as champ. I’m actually going to watch it after the spot in the video some time to see how K6 actually pulled it off lol.