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Theory shit for Headsup
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Numbr2intheWorld
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09-06-2008, 06:29 AM
Post subject: Theory shit for Headsup
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You're facing a competent HU player. You play him for about 20 hands and realize that his strategy out of position is to 3-bet most hands he is playing, which you figure to be over 25%. You adjust by minraising, he continues to 3-bet to 3.5-4x. He has c-bet all the flops in which you called his 3-bets, you expect him to have a high c-bet percentage. Of the following which is the best counter strategy?
1) never calling 3-bets and using some kind of 4-betting strategy. I don't use this because i can't figure out how to make it effective but if you have one please lay it out.
Benefits: Villain has to make a preflop commitment while you do not (given 100-150BB stacks).
Cons: doesn't take advantage of his c-betting leak.
2) (note: do you think this preflop calling range is good? it's about 26% of hands) mostly call 3-bets with a range of 88+, J8s+, T8s+, 78s+, Axs, A7o+, K6s+, any two T or over (You may add 77-22 against certain types), occasionally 4-bet as a bluff or value depending on the type of player he is. Postflop, you are flatting most of his c-bets to keep your range wide, mixing in bluffs on the turn and river, and just basically playing late street poker.
Benefits: Keeps your range wide on all streets, forcing him into tough decisions oop.
Cons: Opponent usually sees all of his preflop equity. This i think may be a bigger deal than i originally thought.
3) same preflop strategy as 2. Postflop, mini raising or folding most of his c-bets while doing everything else a small % of the time when you see fit.
Benefits: Forces opponent to make commitment when he has a weaker range and has much less equity than preflop. Opponent doesn't see all streets.
Cons: ??????????
Ahhhhhhhhhhh, i always feel weird making posts like this cause HU is so player dependent. But i was playing someone like the player described in the OP today and i was using strategy 2, and i lost pretty hard. I was beginning to think that strategy 1 or 3 may be significantly better, given the bad commitment spot it puts my opponent in. Just post whatever comes thoughts come to your head from this post.
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gabe
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i just mix everything in together and hope to level the person when pots get big
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IowaSkinsFan
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What ive began to really like to do against non super good opponents is fourbet purely as bluffs a sparse percentage of the time (unless ive shown ive called a threebet with AA-QQ, AK because then I'm betting he;s going to shove over like crazy).
I think threebetting that much and cbetting every flop is such a gigantic leak versus anyone competent that you have to use the bulk of your range to call the threebets pre. Honestly, I think switching to minraising was a mistake. I'd just still pump it to 3-3.5x, 4 x if he keeps it up, and let him bloat the pot huge oop.
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just open 50% of btns
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