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Heads up play has become an increasingly popular option in recent years, well thanks to the internet! Heads up play is an enormous fun and a great way of honing your skills. In short this is because there's nowhere to hide - you're paying blinds every hand, and so if you wait for aces you'll end up anteing away. J4o, A2, K3, the chances are that you'll be taking flops with these hands (unless there's a decent raise to you), raising with anything playable and only throwing away the real garbage like 53o or 72o. So bluffing, reading your opponent and post flop play all become of paramount importance.
The other defining element to heads up play is position, which is absolutely key in no-limit games, just as important as the serve in tennis for example. Because the button traditionally posts the small blind in this format, and therefore acts first before the flop but last after it, they have both the opportunity to take the lead in a pot and go on to pressurise with it post flop.
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