Gunna start reviewing hands pretty regularly. I've been playing a mixture of headsup and 6max and honestly they seem like fairly similar games. Ranges are just wider in headsup and its really important to not get blown off too many hands (from what I can tell so far).
Anyhow some interesting ones from today:
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2857678 This one was against a pretty fishy opponent although in this hand I really am the fish and donked it up pretty good. I think betting really doesn't accomplish much as he may check raise me with AJ/AQ/AK or bigger hands which have me crushed. Even against AQ my equity isn't very good. I definitely need to check the flop here and probably call a turn bet.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2857689 In this hand I basically flop the nuts against a pretty awful player. He has a habit of calling down with what I assume up to this point to be either marginal made hands or strong but not very strong hands. Its hard to say. In two previous pots he bet the river after I checked and gave up with busted draws (second time it was a big draw,first was a soso draw). Here the only debatable street really is the river and I check to him which induces a valuebet (which is probably too thin a lot of them time) and jam on him with the flush. He calls with a straight and it really is a bit of a cooler for him. I think he should have jammed the turn though to protect against draws since I hadn't been bluffing the river when everything bricked or been making thin river calls.
http://www.pokerhand.org/?2857708 Looking back at this hand I really don't like my bluff raise. I think my options really are call or fold on the flop. I'm not certain he would bet/fold a hand like AT or KT. He'd obviously call any queen and likely jam over my raise with hands like AK. Even though I have a gutshot i hate this. I also think preflop I shuold either be 4betting or folding since this hand doesn't play very well. I likely should have started limping instead of raising every hand since this guy is 3betting trap hands like qto (which are ahead of my raising range, but don't flop that often). I guess the last play I could make is call pre and jam some low boards as he'll have whiffed overs a lot of the time.
I'll go into a bit of a preflop tangeant here because its just so important in headsup.
If his reraising range is 77+,ATs+,KTs+,QTs+,JTs,T9s,98s,87s,76s,65s,ATo+,KTo+,QTo+ then thats 13% of hands. Considering preflop I'm risking 2.5 to win 1.5 I need it to work 1.5*x+(1-x)*(-2.5)=0 ;; 1.5x-2.5+2.5x=0 ;; 4x=2.5 ;; x=62.5% of the time. If he's reraising 13% of his hands he'll have a hard time finding another 21% of hands to cold call with profitably so I think raise/folding is probably still profitable. However its likely more profitable to limp some preflop or fold slightly more often hoping he overadjusts by defending much more tightly.
Actually thinking about it now if he's just defending 87s or whatever because he thinks its +EV and the decision is between whether to reraise or fold, then the equity equations for both raising tighter and raising looser will differ only in the times I don't steal when he has nothing. So it's more +EV preflop to just steal 100% of the time and let him inflate the pots with hands like kto. Then the times he does reraise and I have something that flops decently he'll be in a dominated situation/one where he's forced to fold too often on safe flops if he cbets too frequently as well. The danger in applying this is he may start reraising hands like Axs or Kxs knowing I rarely call which will then make my button stealing -EV. This really hurts my chances of winning as the matchup is mostly who looses the least in the BB while making the most in the SB (button).
