"Heads-up" means playing 1-on-1, duelling one poker player against another. It's a unique situation in poker demanding a high degree of strategical knowledge, fine instincts and lots of aggression at the table. Needless to say this is the part of poker most difficult to master.
Heads-Up tournaments are tournaments played by pairing the participating players round after round in a knockout system – just like in tennis for example. The winner progresses to the next round, and the loser is eliminated.
All players start out with equal stacks in a Heads-Up tournament, and because of the round-by-round play you'll always go heads-up against a player with the same amount in chips as you.
In the first round every player may have 1,500 chips, and the winners of the first round will then progress to the second round with 3,000 in chips – their own 1,500 chips and their opponent's 1,500 chips. Unlike other kinds of poker tournaments this means, that in a Heads-Up tournament you'll always be exactly even in a heads-up duel when the first hand in a round is dealt.
As the tournament progresses, the field of players is cut in half each round until you finally reach the quarterfinals, semi-finals and the final.
In the final, the two players sit with each half of the entire number of chips originally in play, and the winner of this final heads-up match wins the tournament and the first prize.
The prizes you win in a Heads-Up tournament depend on the round you reach. Starting at a certain round the lowest prizes are awarded to the losers of that round, and then the prizes go up each round with losers cashing in and winners progressing to the next round.
The total prize pool is the sum of all buy-ins – just like in any other poker tournament – and the winner will typically bag at least 25% of the total prize pool.
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