Never use a chart for what hands to play and if someone tries to tell you to use one run in the other direction. Also look under the free tab at the top of the page for articles.

Hi kiroman, and welcome! This is a great site and maybe overwhelming at first, but you'll quickly get used to it. All of the members here are very friendly, too.Thought thepuminator is a more skilled HU player than I am, I would respectfully disagree with his opinion here.As I've posted in another thread, as a novice HU player, I believe a set of loose hand charts would be extremely helpful. There would be charts for each "basic player type", and they would show hands to mostly raise, mostly limp, and mostly fold vs. each villain type, perhaps indicating the extremely borderline hands in each case.Instructors of the most basic videos already give you loose hand ranges to follow while you are starting out, but they don't go into detail, and I believe hand charts cannot possibly hurt. This would be with the understanding that these are only very loose guidelines that you will need to learn to adjust as you become comfortable with the game.Unfortunately, no such hand charts exist on this site.I don't know if you're a member of the video portion of the site, but the price is VERY much worth the content for the standard membership. You will probably recoup the cost is 50-75 games at the $5.25 stake level. Notice that I'm not saying the videos will instantly make you a winner, but I do believe for a beginning player they will increase your ROI by 10% or more rather quickly. So if your ROI is -12%, you can probably quickly improve that to -2%.

I copy-pasted this from another thread I responded to. Follow this order from the beginning. The first few by Primordial and the "Intro to Endgame" by Rypac are extremely important for beginners.I am in the process of making a new video guide, but it won't be done for a few more weeks.I can recommend the following videos (best viewed roughly in this order) if you have not seen them:Primordial "Archive Videos" #1, 2, 11, 12, 14Rypac #9 (Intro to Endgame)Fydor Leakfinder 10/16/10Fydor Leakfinder 11/05/10 (brand new and awesome!)Cog Dissonance #17 (Powerpoint: Adjusting to tight players...A Masterpiece)Rypac #5 (Despite the eye-straining double-table layout, this video is 5 Stars, jam-packed with solid commentary, theory, and analysis.)Fydor #14 (Fantastic, lengthy discussions about adjusting to bad players, value betting, and playing small pots with small hands.)HokieGreg #4 (This is a somewhat more difficult video, so you need to be paying extra close attention. Jam packed with great information. Took me over two hours to take notes on this video.)Fydor #11 (Another End Game video...it's important! HUGE number of discussions about a wide variety of basic end game concepts. Recommended for novice players.)There are more videos I think I need to work in between those somewhere, but this should give players a solid start. I didn't include any Skates videos in the above list because they are not so concept-specific and only one Cog video, because I feel his style is somewhat difficult to comprehend. Cog is probably my favorite instructor, though. I just watched the HokieGreg video yesterday and found his style very good as well.All of the live play videos here with the exception of Rypac#5 are $10 games and under. I selected them based upon a variety of player types and concepts.I'll refine this list a lot later. I just threw it together based upon some of my notes. Hope it helps for now!