Ive been doing alot of thinking about reraising out of position when playing heads up. Basically im refering to hands that dont warrant a raise on their value alone but can be raised to take down the pot or take control of it. I feel as though i prefer to reraise hands like 56o instead of something like KT because your not going to be dominated as often when your called, similar to squeeze plays essentially. Also, how often should you lead the flop when called after reraising? C-bet everytime? Your thoughts

The correct answer is....it all depends. How does your opponent play? Does he let you bully him around? Does he protect blinds? Answer those questions and you'll have a better idea of how to play him. You can't have the same strategy against everyone HU.

GABMAD is spot on here. HU strategy is 100% player depepndant and having a standard strategy will work against you as smart thinking players will work you out in a flash and take you to the cleaners. Try to figure out what villian is doing and formulate a gameplan to take his money.

Indeed. It depends on your read of your opponent and what you've shown down.

I realize that this all depends on how your opponent plays. Lets talk scenarios then:

A. This player has played well and raises his button liberally with a wide range. You have reraised him twice from the BB once he folded, the second time he called and called your continuation bet and you gave it up.

B. This player has reraised you several times from the big blind so you know hes doing it with air alot of the time. How do you defend against this? Just accept that you have to gamble and play bigger pots?

What hands would you guys consider reraising with in general. Also, how often do you continuation bet out of position?

For scenario A you only described 2 hands which isn't sufficient enough to form a read on your opponent. Cash games are different than sit and goe's. And I prefer sit and go's so I'll explain it in sit and go's. You want to be the agressor HU, you want him to fear making a play against you unless he's got a hand. To get this reputation raise from the button the first few hands. If the opponent raises from the button quickly his first hand when he's on the button, I often like to raise a pot size no matter what my cards are. The reason for this is simple. Most players will raise on the button with anything. They are thinking that you don't know that he'd do that. Therefore, you'd need a real hand to raise his raise from the button. I generally don't like calling raises when my opponent raises from the button with hands like Q5 K3 (I know, I'm sorry I insulted the krablar), and those types of hands. Therefore, muck them when your'r raised OOP . Yes it might be the best hand but you'll win a small pot if it is and you'll lose a big pot when you're dominated and probably lose the ones that you don't hit because your'e OOP. So...my point is don't call OOP unless you've got a hand with good flop odds like 910 or J9 and the raise isn't too large. But ya...it's good to be agressive OOP but not everytime or else a good player will eploit you by raising you lets say one in every three hands you raise him OOP thus making you lose money in the long run.

you need to be re-raising more post flop, than preflop.

preflop, you don't really need to worry about your hand when you are re-raising preflop...if he is quite active on the button.

but if you do, you normally need to lead on the flop, with something that is at least 50% of the pot and whether or not if you hit or miss.

when i had no bankroll, i'd play $50 and $100 buy in cash games HU and had 'great success' at those levels. built from $50 to 4-5k in no time.

some guys are passive and you pick them apart, some guys are aggressive and the same happens....however, a lot also depends on how the cards fall. HU is very swingy, so you need to be overrolled...the most aggressive players are always tough, as you sometimes have to play big pots OOP with 2nd pair, and it's tough.

i like calling pf and leading into flops when I miss and then showing...do this a few times, and then do it when you hit big, or flop a big draw and work the magic.

the fun thing about HU is you can do a lot of things that are "wrong" but HU it doesn't matter...you just need to have balls to play the game. and a lot of buy ins to work with.

- Jordan