Best game to determine skill

I was playing in a 6-max $11 SNG on FT last night. I had T8s in the BB during one of the first few hands. Blinds were 15/30 and everybody had about 1500.

UTG min raised to 60. Three players called, and I called another 30. The flop was T83 with a flush draw on the board. I guess the pot was a little over 300 at that point and I bet about 250. UTG re-raises to 550, everyone else folds I and shove all-in. Pretty standard line I think.

Anyway, he shows 99 and loses. Suddenly the chatbox blows up about what a fish I am for calling his raise with T8, blah blah blah.

Then he says something that I actually see alot when people get into those kind of discussions. "Let's play HU". Or sometimes they will offer to play HU for some outrageous stakes. If I'm playing $11 SNG's, obviously I dont' want to play HU for $100.

Anyway, since I see this ALOT, I was wondering if HU is truly a measue of a player's overall skill in relation to another player?

If you wanted to measure one player's ability against another, how would you do that? Or could you even do it?

You do it over the long term. HU is considered a way of determining skill, but over a couple of games I doubt anyone believes their skill will be the only determining factor.

Ive seen this quite a bit after someone takes what they consider to be a bad beat. Im not sure if hu play determines skill or not? I know alot of the nosebleed stakes players play alot of heads up but Im not sure if thats because of a skill factor or a pissing contest or if its just because theres so few players who play at those stakes.

On a side note I like your call of the min bet with 10,8 suited especially with all the players in the pot. Whats really funny is that he called a all in shove with 2nd pair to the board and a flush draw out which makes me think that playing the guy heads up would definitely be +ev :p

Just call him a fag and his mom a whore. Stupid chat box bullshit.

Maybe you should challenge that guy who stacked you with 74off to a heads up game... Show him who he's f-ing with.

But seriously, anyone who berates a player in the chat box and challenges him to a duel is obviously a total n00b or a fucking idiot who doesn't understand the game. I'd take him up on his offer tho, since he's obv tilting. BRM FTW!