Quote Originally Posted by ChezJ
i've been reading "killer poker" by john vorhaus and he outlined this excellent heads-up blind defense play for limit HE:

with a crap hand, don't defend.

with a premium hand, re-raise back and bet any scary flop.

with any other hand, smooth call preflop, check-call any low flop, then CHECK-RAISE THE TURN.

if the stealer has two high cards, he'll almost always fold. if he doesn't, your are beaten so fold to any subsequent bet.

i tried this last night and it was awesome. it is particularly effective if there is a pair on board.

ChezJ
bumping because damn this works, ChezJ. Had KTo in BB versus pretty obvious steal at gamesgrid 2/4. called, flop was raggy with a pair.

It didn't hurt that the turn was a T. My CR scared off the stealer but not the SB. River was another T, SB check-called and lost a nice pot.

Then, shortly after, I had KJo versus another probable steal. Board was raggy and it checked around. Turn was T again, giving me nothing, but I checkraised. Both called (!)

River was an A but on account of my checkraise it checked around. You're not going to believe this ...

MHIG! That's right ... unimproved KJo versus 2 who called a CR. Another nice pot.

(Probably this should move to LHE)