Players Who Tighten Up If You Raise Them

Let's say you're playing heads-up with a player who will limp in every hand EXCEPT if you start raising him. What do you do? Do you raise and watch him stop limping with absolute junk, or do you play softball against his 5-2 thru AA?


Thanks

you want him to fold so raise him alot.

If he is on the button heads up (small blind)

and he was previously limping with

the bottom 20% of his hands, but now he dumps

them because you are raising him when he limps,

he has now adjusted and is playing better by

folding.


I would not go as far as saying you shouldn't

raise him when he limps, but perhaps you shouldn't

always do it (say with the top 65-85%..But always raise 86-100), to encourage him to keep limping

in with the bottom of the barrel.


Adjustments need to be made if your

opponents changes his play for the better.

Right now, he's discussing your game with his friends:


"This guy is so passive, he never raises pre-flop from the big blind. So I figure I can limp with any 2 cards. Compare limping to folding. I put in 1/4 the pre-flop money and I have position for the rest of the hand. Even 32o is good enough for that."


Makes sense to me.

One thing I forgot to mention is that

the blind structure could be very important.


Most Headup Limits online have the SB as

1/2 or 1/3 of the BB. I haven't seen any

15/30 HU structures, where calling any

2 cards would probably be okay from the SB.

That really helps to look at it that way, thanks.