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Old 09-16-2004, 01:52 AM
AlwaysWrong AlwaysWrong is offline
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Default Heads-Up Limit Hold\'em PF

On one of the sites I play there is quite a bit of heads-up limit play, with the button being the small blind (unlike Stars).

From my observations, the majority of people limp in most of the time from the button. This seems wrong to me, as I want to push my positional advantage as much as possible, especially when A-high and K-high can win unimproved.

Here's a brief outline of some possible reasonings behind each possible pf strat:

1) Always limp - You get to see more flops in position, you might be able to play more hands than if you always raise (???), the pot is smaller on the flop, so your bet will have more levarage when your opponent checks, and you can throw away more marginal hands when your opponent leads into you.

2) Always raise - you push your advantage early, you don't give your opponent's really poor hands a chance to hit for free (they have to pay to play).

#1 and #2 share the property of not giving away much about your hand at the start.

3) Raise sometimes, limp sometimes - You can start pushing with your high card hands and go for odds with hands like 45s, 34s, 22.

Obviously with 3) you have to mix it up, limp with high cards hands sometimes, raise with drawing hands sometimes, limp re-raise sometimes, etc.

It's quite clear that against all but the worst opponents you have to mix up your play, but before the flop just doing the same thing every time seems like the most deceptive and most profitable play.

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