Head-Up NLHE Tournament Strategy

Paul Phillips is playing in the National Heads-Up Poker Championship this Friday. In his LiveJournal he asks the question When if ever should you fold your button preflop in a no-limit heads-up match?. He gets the range of answers one would expect: some good, some not so good.

The best answer he gets, by far, is the link Jerrod Ankenman posts to his own LJ:

Case 1: Small stacks (<10 BB)

Just play jam or fold. It's really, really hard to do better than this, and really easy to do worse.

Case 2: Larger stacks (10-25 BB)

Now the game moves from 1 bullet to approximately 2.
I think at this stack size you should probably be raising to either the minimum or 2.5, depending on your particular preference: if you like raising to 2.5, then you should probably play jam or fold up to about 12 or 13, lest you wander into the realm of "I've raised and I can't give up!"

There's more. Read the whole thing. In fact, click on the link and save the info to a text file, because the info is so hot that if I were Jerrod I would friends-lock it so that it didn't spread too far. It's that good.