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Your friend is right not to want to play heads-up with the dealer, even though his "reasoning" is nonsense. Heads-up, he will play a lot more hands per hour, and lose faster than he will play at a full table. Given the superstitious nonsense he believes about the game, I'm sure he doesn't play anything close to correct basic strategy.

Don't try to educate him, just try to get him to play poker, preferably at the same table with me.