sa1251 Attempts the Latest Heads Up SNG Poker Volume Challenge

June 28th, 2011 - $100 level heads up sng regular sa1251 begins a heavy volume challenge today, attempting to turn a profit over 2025 heads up sngs at the $100 level in just 9 days.  He will be 4-6 tabling on PokerStars, playing roughly 225 games a day for nine days straight.

He has ponied up just under $1,000 of his own money for the challenge.  If successful, he will win $4,000 from other heads up sng players betting against him.

News Includes: PokerStars Expanding Hyper Turbos, Plauzee Controversy and Players Headed South

PokerStars Expands Hyper Turbo Heads Up SNGs

PokerStars has expanded their hyper (super) turbo heads up sng offerings up to and including the $30 buyin.  The buyin levels offered (rake % in parenthesis) currently are $1.44 + .06 (4%), $3.40 + .10 (2.8%), $6.85 + .15 (2.1%), $14.69 + .31 (2%) and $29.37 + .63 (2.1%).

JackTheShipper Discusses Making $50,000 in 50 Days

June 13th, 2011 - Belgian heads up sng player Jan "JackTheShipper" has made $50,000 in the last 50 days.  HUSNG.com sat down with Jan for a quick Q and A about his recent success.

Q: $50,000 in 50 days is quite impressive, how are you handling this type of success and the emotions that presumably go with the success?

A:  I'm very excited about the success, and the future can go either way, I hope I'm not just on a long heater but I've had some good success over a significant amount of games, so I feel pretty confident right now. 

HUSNG.com members can now receive 25-50% off the new Awesome HUD v3, a heads up display specifically designed for heads up poker players.

Cody Completes WSOP, WPT and EPT Trifecta

June 4th, 2011 - 22 year old British tournament professional Jake Cody defeated Yevgeniy "Jovial Gent" Timoshenko to win the $25,000 buyin WSOP heads up event.

He won $851,192 in addition to his WSOP bracelet.  Timoshenko took home $525,980 for his runner up finish.

Cody also won the EPT Deauville and WPT London earlier this year, as well as a PokerStars SCOOP victory in May.

Notables that cashed in this 128 player, $3,040,000 prize pool event included Gus Hansen (3rd place), Tom Dwan (9th place), Olivier "livb112" Busquet (12th place) and Jonathan Jaffe (16th place).

Olivier Busquet was knocked out by Timoshenko in the tournament, as was Daniel Cates.

As Camp Closes, Coaches Reflect

May 29, 2011 - HokieGreg and PrimordialAA are only a few days away from completing their month long boot camp, taking place at PrimordialAA's residence in Austin, Texas.  By all accounts, it has been a great success.

"It's been really valuable, I realize now that before I got here I was an epic nit that had no idea how to play poker," said Joe, a poker player from Iceland that attended the camp.  In fact, the attendance was diverse, with players from Germany, Estonia, United Kingdom and United States.

Slashes Rake and Deepens Super Turbo Structure

May 15, 2011 - The Merge Network followed through with their promise of lower rake and a deeper structure in their super turbo heads up sit and go games, slashing the rake by over 50% on some buyins and doubling the starting stacks of the games to 30bbs, from 15bbs previously.

The move comes less than 72 hours after Hero Poker's (a skin on the Merge network) CEO responded to player requests with the following statement: "Merge has listened and you will see changed tournaments in the very near future with rake reduced at all levels aside from $2.10.  And the 25/50 chip blind level [will be] added."

PokerStars Makes Sweeping Changes to Heads Up SNG Lobbies

May 07, 2011 - PokerStars made some large changes to their sit and go offerings yesterday, including some major changes to heads up sit and go games.  Among the new changes, the fees (rake) of all turbo levels have been decreased, some higher stakes buyins have decreased rake, an increased top buyin level of $10,000 has been added, blind levels as well as blind length has changed for regular and turbo speed games (charts of these changes are below) and "hyper" (super) turbo heads up sit and gos are being put in as a test for the time being.

Starting with rake changes, turbo buyin levels are now standardized (example, $10 buyin rather than $11, $20 buyin rather than $21).  Turbo rake is decreased somewhat, with $5 +  .21, $10 + 43, $20 + .85, $30 + 1.28, $50 + 2.02 and $100 + 4.50.