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Can I effectively use SPR and the commitment threshold heads-up? I've played many of these and they at least feel like cash game play. Thanks.

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hu depends a bit on your game. if you do a lot of stealing you'd be less concerned with SPRs but still use them to help with commitment decisions. if you don't steal often you might use them more. in either case, if your opponent is good you'd want to be quite careful about varying preflop raise sizes.

commitment threshold still applies. however, in an aggressive hu match you'd be making more big bluffs and semibluffs and getting all-in with weaker hands.

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Thanks, Matt. I figured the commitment threshold would hold up still. I find it is really effective so far and the only adjustment is that I commit with weaker hands like TPMK or something like that. Haven't tried SPR yet. It does get complicated later because when the blinds get to 25-50 with 1500 effective stacks a preflop raise puts you on or past the commitment threshold so I guess the concepts from the book are better suited for low blind play.

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I don't think the last bit is necessarily true. You still can decide whether or not you are committed and make a commitment plan, it is just that your variables are different. All being committed implies is whether your will profit from getting all your chips in. If it is you make your commitment plan, which may just be moving AI, and go from there.