$50 NLHE Heads-up: A shot(ish) at 50nl HU and wondering about a couple of hands

$50 NL HE Heads-up: A shot(ish) at 50nl HU and wondering about a couple of hands

Ok so I played a bit of 50nl hu today just to see what sorta standard there is there and if I could hack it, felt reasonably comfortable but a couple of hands was unsure on what a standard sort of play would be.

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HAND #1
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Full Tilt, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
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Hero (BB): $68.80 (137.6 bb)
BTN: $46.30 (92.6 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with A♠ Q♦
BTN raises to $1.50, Hero raises to $5, BTN raises to $15 Hero???

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HAND #2
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Full Tilt, $0.25/$0.50 NL Hold'em Cash Game, 2 Players
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Hero (BB): $84.50 (169 bb)
BTN: $27.55 (55.1 bb)

Pre-Flop: Hero is BB with 7♣ 5♣
BTN raises to $1.50, Hero calls $1

Flop: ($3) K♣ A♣ T♥ (2 players)
Hero???

I assume thuogh I can get not much help with hand 1, but any idea about how to play hand 2 would be much appreciated, fwiw its been a weak/tightish game - he c-bets 100% of the flops, I have floated successfully a couple of times, his image of me would be very tight, hes folded to all of my check raises on the flop. He normally just gives up when I float.

So yeah, any thoughts on how to play hand2 anyway would be helpful, wanna improve my HU game.

hmm messed up the colours of the converter a bit, oh well

As suspected hand 1 is impossible to comment on without gameflow/ history with villain. Some relevant information to include would be how often you've been three betting his opens and what hands have you shown down when doing so, how often he's opening from the button, how often he's 4 bet you and how often he's flatted a 3 bet. Snap shoving and auto foldingcould bothbe correct in this instance, though calling rare would be.

Hand 2 based on reads becomes an easy C/R although it does suck if he shoves on you bc of stack sizes (you're in that awkward spot where he can shove without it being too much of an overbet, but he's more likely to shove than call and it's still a slightly bigger bet than we wanna call. I guess C/Cing the flop with the intention of leading a decent bet on a blank turn works as well if he'll fold a significant % of the time without an Ace, since it accomplishes almost the same thing as a C/R and gives you a cheap chance to improve on the turn

Hand 1 is tough because in HU you want to be the aggressor not the one calling, and without much for stat's it hard to say if it's possible you beat anything in his 4 bet range, although if I were playing this and he was a unknown I would fold and pick a better spot.

On hand 2 the first thing i'm thinking is not getting to call happy because your gonna miss a lot of flops. 75s isn't the worst thing to be calling but don't get preflop call happy. Otherwise I agree with Zybomb and think a c/r or c/c with a turn bet on any card would work.

Good luck

Ye I'm not quite sure why I posted hand1, I have a tendancy to do silly things like that, I folded it pretty quikcly anyway, think AJ is probably the very worst of his 4bet range (iirc that was the only time he 4bet me, although we only played like 200 hands or somet) if its in there at all. I'm pretty much certain it was the right fold.

And yeah Numbuh 0ne I agree about my call preflop in hand2 to some extent, I don't think I get great implied odds against this guy, although I'm definitely gunna be able to pick up a c-bet for $2 on the flop if i hit anything (or often nothing), hes unlikely to pay more than that unless he hits something too. For that reason I tihnk maybe a 3bet to hopefully take it down preflop, or for some deception/balance would probably have been preferable.

Although I was aware of the stack size I don't think I thought about it enough on the flop with the line I took, something to look at in the future i suppose, ty.

So yeah I went for the c/r, but reading your reasoning Zybomb I like the c/c, as I think you are right he folds everything apart from for a big hand or monster draw, which obviously he could have.

Initially check raised as he was raising a lot of hands preflop (standard of course) and c-betting all the time, so figured I can semi-bluff reasonably profitably there, even if the board is very wet.

I may of missed it but i dont see anywhere if you say how often he raises BTN pf?

EDIT: jk its right above. I agree with Numbuh One, 75 is ok to call here as he's exploitable postflop, but I wouldn't make my calling range quite that wide.

Hand 1 if he's not 4-betting or calling 3-bets wide I'd just flat pre but if he flats enough or is adjusting to you 3-bet/fold or 3-bet/ship can both be fine lines but you should prob know which you're doing before you 3-bet. Otherwise you basically don't even know why you're 3-betting.

Hand 2 I think pre you should be 3-betting or folding (mostly 3-bet) not really good enough to call as played decent flop to donk imo or ch/r is good or even just ch/f if you don't think he's bet/folding enough flops.

Hand 1: is pretty villian dependent, although most of the time HU u can't go wrong stacking AQ 100bb deep.

Hand 2: I agree with bubonic that you should be 3betting or folding most of the time. As played I just ch/r since you say hes been cbetting 100% of flops.

Hand1 you should try flatting more with aq, and being more aggressive post flop on non a or k flop

hand2 it's a good call oop, now you want the last bet here so either donk then jam a 3 bet or c/r all in which looks like a draw.

If he's not folding tp here then you stil have between 28-33 equity. It's also good for your meta game with villian in the long run if you play your draws fast as they merge with your made hands

I check raised to like $7.75, he shoved I called, he turned over 92cc or somet like that and I spiked a 5 on the turn.

I guess flatting my big hands and 3betting things like hand2 against this guy woulda been the better way to go as he wouldn't realise seeing as we were getting very few showdowns.

ty all.

Folding AQ to a 3bet heads up is extremely tight. Is your opponent a rock or just very passive pre-flop? AQ is really a monster heads up.

BenLZ said:

Folding AQ to a 3bet heads up is extremely tight. Is your opponent a rock or just very passive pre-flop? AQ is really a monster heads up.

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This hand was 4 bet not 3 bet