[bfactor]

Hi guys, first off I'd like to introduce myself. Some of you might recognize me, as I am a frequent poster in p5s Off Topic forum. I think this is my first post ever on 2+2. Anyway, I recently began a $5,000 in 100 days challenge, and so far I have mainly been playing the $.25/.50nlhe heads up tables on pokerstars, usually 1-tabling.

I am not very experienced at hu nl cash games, and I think I probably have some leaks, but first I have a couple questions:

1. What is a typical pokertracker standard deviation figure for heads up nl cash games. I'm sure some of you have logged hundreds of thousands of hands at heads up nl cash games on your pokertrackers. I would really appreciate it if you of you could tell me what a typical SD range would be for heads up nlhe cash games, as I am trying to optimize my bankroll management for hu nlhe cash games, and I need to know about typical SD values to do my math for br management.

2. Are the $.25/.50nlhe heads up cash games on pokerstars beatable in the long run, or is the rake simply too large relative to the stakes for even a very good player to overcome in the long run? I am a pretty good 6-max nlhe player, so if $50nl hu isn't really beatable in the long run, I could just play 6-max until I'm rolled to play $100nl hu tables. And while we're at it $100nl hu has to be beatable in the long run right? Just checking.

Okay, pretty lame first post, but if I posted this on p5s it would take me 7-8 months to get anything resembling a realistic response, lol. Thanks guys.

-bfactor