HU battle history - I think this should be really interesting...

[TheWorstPlayer]

Thanks for the response.
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hand 2 turn push is terrible given board. folding to minraise is pro.

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I'll be pro next time. I would have been pro this time, but I rushed my decision a bit since I just didn't feel like giving this guy credit for a hand. In fairness, we hadn't played against each other in a while and I forgot how generally tight he is. But still. I think folding here is definitely correct. I don't even have a big overpair. He could even have AA-JJ here for all I know.

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hand 3

perfect


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Sweet. So you never push the turn here even if you're willing to call off the rest of your stack on the river?

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hand 4

i threebet here a lot PF but my HU game is pretty ramped up PF because my opponents in gneral overrespect a 3bet.


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I thought about it but knew he wouldn't give me credit for a hand on the flop so thought I should just take a flop and try to use position to make him uncomfortable postflop. Any merit in that thinking?

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that siad i don't like a turn bet here at all cos you lose the bald bluffs and keep the hands that beat you and the solid semibluffs. i think you see QK with 1 or 2 spades here a lot.

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I think this shows a fundamental flaw in my thinking here. A lot of people are nailing his hand: KQ with a spade. I never even thought for a second that he might have such a good hand. First of all, his hand range has to be huge to raise HU out of the SB since we play pretty aggro against each other. I basically put him on ATC. Then he bets the flop, still ATC. So I have to assume that I am ahead on the turn, but he could have a spade so I want to protect. I figure that I should bet out big (I bet quickly, too) to make it look like a bluff so that he will push to re-bluff and I'll call being way ahead. The river blanked, I pulled the pot, and then I checked the HH for his hand. I was shocked.

With such a good hand, he has to figure that he is ahead a very large percentage of the time. So why push in and make me fold what he considers to be a bluff most likely? And the few times that he isn't ahead here, he has a good draw to the second nuts, which I'm never going to give him credit for. I don't see any reason why he pushes instead of calling the turn. I'm never going to fold a better hand against him here. He should just call and then check to me on the river and hope I continue my bluff! Or if a spade hits, maybe he should push and hope I call him with a smaller spade trying to snap off HIS bluff. So even though you guys are all nailing his hand dead on, I think his turn line makes NO sense for his holding! Help??