How to play aggainst a hyper aggressive guy in heads up poker?

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How to play against a hyper aggressive guy in heads up poker?

If i have AK, then i have fold it without any pair in flop.

when i have low pair then i am thinking that is that guy have something or not. So, becoming a calling station is not working for me.

So, Kindly help me.

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Anytime I play heads up with an aggressive player, I play slow with a lot of patience. Give the aggressive player chances to make bets. In other words, give the player enough rope and the player will hang himself or herself. If I have a good hand or flop a good hand, I slow play and let the aggressive player make the bet. I just keep calling until it gets to the river, then I can turn the tables - set a trap. If you can do this once or twice (double up or make a big dent in the aggressive players stack), the aggressive player usually slows down a bit. So, just keep calm and trap on.:)
 
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hi!
against hyrer lag player you shouldnt bluff
if he mini raises preflop you should play most of the hands and slow play him
if he raise big pre flop you should play only good hands like J10 or better
dont make bets after flop and let him bet for you
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Anytime I play heads up with an aggressive player, I play slow with a lot of patience. Give the aggressive player chances to make bets. In other words, give the player enough rope and the player will hang himself or herself. If I have a good hand or flop a good hand, I slow play and let the aggressive player make the bet. I just keep calling until it gets to the river, then I can turn the tables - set a trap. If you can do this once or twice (double up or make a big dent in the aggressive players stack), the aggressive player usually slows down a bit. So, just keep calm and trap on.:)

but if i am blinded out... just calling his preflop bet or calling middle or low pair is a value bet against this guys.

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hi!
against hyrer lag player you shouldnt bluff
if he mini raises preflop you should play most of the hands and slow play him
if he raise big pre flop you should play only good hands like J10 or better
dont make bets after flop and let him bet for you
good luck

what about suited connectors and if JT or better does not hit the flop, then what??

but if i am blinded out... just calling his preflop bet or calling middle or low pair is a value bet against this guys.

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Ace high or one pair is going to win most of the pots. Depending on your read, you may have to call him all the way to the river with just the ace high. It will shock you how often your ace wins.
 
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but if i am blinded out... just calling his preflop bet or calling middle or low pair is a value bet against this guys.

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I hear you. I try to get a good read on the other player, but nothing is full proof in poker. Aggressive players will often bet big with just a high card. So, sometimes middle or low pair will win the pot. To quote the late great Bruce Lee -

"Don't think, feel! It is like a finger pointing a way to the moon. Don't concentrate on the finger or you will miss all that heavenly glory." :)

That probably doesn't help, but I just like to use that quote.;)
 
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I think in the long run you need to wear him down... Let him bluff at the wrong pot, and do not get involved in hads unless you have some strong equity or a very solid hand.. You do not want to call off with ak, but sometimes it will be ahead against a loose player...
 
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It depends a lot on how deep you are.

You can easily get pot commited pre-flop with AK.
If he bets any flop, then I would re-raise him with any good card.
 
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These guy are quite hard to play agains't because they put you to tough decisions. Depending on his frequencies (opening, cbetting, multi-barreling, etc) you might have to start calling him lighter than normal. Ideally you want to catch a hand and let him bluff off his stack which you can afford to do if you are decently deep stacked, but being short stacked you don't really have that luxury.
 
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it depends what Kind of games you are playing , is it hypers Speed , Turbos or normal Speed. but the only Thing hyper aggro Players hate the super hyper aggro Gamblers. cos if u Play allin game vs them with any gd Hands , it makes them tilt cos they cant steal anymore from you. they ll know then that u can put them allin in any Situation. so thats one of the best Counter stratergy
 
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First of all you need to understand this is wrong:
If i have AK, then i have fold it without any pair in flop.

A high is powerfull headsup, most of the time it is the best hand. Call his opens wider. If he's cbetting a lot, queen high might be good enough on some boards. Make sure you open your range a lot wider when you play heads up. Heads up is totally different then a full ring. If he opens a lot, you can try 3betting.

It is indeed hard to play against those players, but once you play back at them they often slow down. If your range is very tight it is profitable to open any 2 hands against you.

but if i am blinded out... just calling his preflop bet or calling middle or low pair is a value bet against this guys.
When this happens you need to shove wider, if he keeps opening and you're low on blinds. Don't let your opponent mess with you.
 
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How to play against a hyper aggressive guy in heads up poker?

If i have AK, then i have fold it without any pair in flop.

when i have low pair then i am thinking that is that guy have something or not. So, becoming a calling station is not working for me.

You have to be hyper aggressive too. Try to avoid showdown, so being a calling station is not going to work, you want him to doubt his holding and fold as quickly as possible.

3 betting, 4 betting and shoving is your weapons of choice. Spot weakness and pounce on that, pot size or bigger c-bets should put enough pressure on him to reconsider his situation. Remember that you only hit a flop as little as 1/3 so chances are good that most of the time no one hit anything on the flop.

Good luck!
 
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You have to be hyper aggressive too. Try to avoid showdown, so being a calling station is not going to work, you want him to doubt his holding and fold as quickly as possible.

3 betting, 4 betting and shoving is your weapons of choice. Spot weakness and pounce on that, pot size or bigger c-bets should put enough pressure on him to reconsider his situation. Remember that you only hit a flop as little as 1/3 so chances are good that most of the time no one hit anything on the flop.

Good luck!

But, in longball game , no skill has been used and it will deteriorate my performance and always choose short cut if i get a player who is better than me in postflop game.
 
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Strategy depends how deep you are and the structure of the game etc.
 
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against hyper aggro players you have to be more hyper aggro, fight fire with fire basically. Otherwise they will run you over long term in HU games.

If that doesn't work then pick spots where you are putting him to the all in decision. Don't make timid plays, and obviously bluffcatch and trap a bit more.
 
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they are forcing the game to be very volatile, so they put their opponents in a difficult positon if they are tight,

here i think you should push some good hands like Ax or pairs and only play with top pairs like JJ+ and try to trap them
 
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Considering I'm typically the agro player, what I do is re-raise him. Why, most likely he/she will fold. That said, it might sound like a terrible move but think about it, 9/10 times they don't have it so if you show them more power then you're getting, it's a great way to win pots. That said, when you do it, make sure you have at least 1 typical over card.
 
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You have to be hyper aggressive too.

I'm going through Jason Somerville's run it up series and he suggests that if you play heads up against a passive player you need to be aggressive and when you play an aggressive player you need to be a nit.
 
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I'm going through Jason Somerville's run it up series and he suggests that if you play heads up against a passive player you need to be aggressive and when you play an aggressive player you need to be a nit.

depends on the game or structure.

makes sense if you have lots of time/stack or blinds. doesn't make any sense in hyper turbos for example.
 
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I let them push me around a bit ofc if I don't have good cards, but first decent hand and i reshove and usually if you show them they're not getting away with it so easily, they'll slow down. It happens that sometimes I ran into AK, KK and lost, but if they raise all the time or shove all the time then chances are that they're just aggro with any two.
 
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I let them push me around a bit ofc if I don't have good cards, but first decent hand and i reshove and usually if you show them they're not getting away with it so easily, they'll slow down. It happens that sometimes I ran into AK, KK and lost, but if they raise all the time or shove all the time then chances are that they're just aggro with any two.

if you let them push you about, then you are not likely to get called when you do re shove...you're basically looking to raise and flat a wide range..which then lets you 3bet more..can weight your 3bets for mostly value but stick a couple in with junk for balance.

looking to go for thin value against these guys...waiting on big hands will not get the job done, coz big hands don't come our way often enough and when they do, they will fold...abit face up..

if someone is aggro, then be a controlled aggro yourself.
 
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one thing you can do is to manage your bet sizing, so you can do things like limp your strong and weak hands and then play for value
 
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