Best game to determine skill

[Ghaleon]

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?

[jyms]

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.

[Infocolypse]

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

[StarGrinder]

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

[manfredi]

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

[StarGrinder]

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!