I posted these hands in the heads up forum. They are all 5/10NL and maybe one is 2/5NL. They are all vs. the same villain. He is a 26 or 27 year old who used to play pretty snug and TAG in weekly .25/.50 NL game. After my second time playing at their home game he asked for heads up action at higher stakes. Our first session we played 1/2 and it turned into 2/5. He ended up winning a few sessions in a row and then game became 5/10 pretty regularly. He's a bit of a degen and capable of losing thousands in a single session doing wild stuff but unfortunately most of our sessions have been him winning several thousand per session and he's up about 40,000 in the past few months.

He's very very loose preflop now and just as loose postflop. Usually calls bets on flop with any piece or any draw but also capable of firing flops with no pair no draw and even calling my flop raises with nothing too. Usually he will try to take it away on later streets when he does that but he's also got the pure fish side to him where he will just check down after doing that so let's just say his ranges are very very wide. Wider than pretty much any player I've played heads up live no limit with.

Here are several hands I've played vs. him and I would like some input from experienced no limit players, especially heads up specialists.

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...ction-1682621/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...i-get-1682779/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...-10-a-1682778/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...-hand-1682771/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...n-out-1682770/

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...check-1681454/

feel free to post input in this thread but please make sure you include which hand you're speaking about. Or you can always just post input in the threads in heads up forum.

Thanks! I'll post results after I see some replies. I look forward to positive thoughtful discussion.

-AQ

Hey, welcome! What you've written reads like you're playing a solid heads up NLHE player. The fact that he's willing to move from $.25/$.50 to $5/$10 and that you're down ~40 buy-ins also is at least a little telling.

Hand 1: Is that hand heads up? I'm lost as to why you're open-limping queens against a wild player and how you're limp re-raising after open limping.

I'll go ahead and stop here until the stories are a bit more in line with what makes sense to discuss. Comments like

cannot lead to advice that will be that helpful for you. You've framed your question inside of so many uncertainties that to comment on them with any detail would be fairly ridiculous. Not trying to be rude there.


Hand 2: All-in pre-flop. You'll have to make some assumptions here, but the way you've described this player makes it plenty clear that this all-in should be profitable in the long run. I would not call a quarter of your stack out of position unless MAYBE you have aces and your opponent will just crank it on most of the time post-flop. If you did call and the flop came 9 high... what would you be hoping to see? I would advise that you quit playing this player based on the first 2 hands and on your results to this point.


Hand 3: Call. You have the nut flush and you don't know what he has. If he has T4, cool! It would be nice to know the limit and the hand you have and why you didn't bet the flop.


Done for now. Not much reason to comment further. GL!

Hey Shoota thanks for the advice. I was too also worried he was a very solid player and wanted to quit playing him until he started doing stuff like playing hands blind to the river and paying me back on my losses lol. Weird stuff like that will keep me in the game for sure. We also are starting to play more non hold'em games which he's much worse at because he has less experience in them and honestly we're starting to make up games as time goes on

Hint hint: one of the hands from the 6 involves a "sign from the Gods" which is something I sort of invented on our first session. I saw a 25 and showed him and said "wanna play a bigger game? 2/5 blinds? IT'S A SIGN FROM THE GODS" and he instantly was like "yes." So when we ended up playing 2/5 if I saw a 5T I would show it and say same thing "wanna play a better/bigger game now? 5/10 blinds." and he agreed. So eventually we made it a house rule that when sign from the Gods is activated and one of these hands wins in incremental order (e.g. if it's already 1/2 and someone wins with 25 it goes to 2/5 blinds and if it's 2/5 and someone wins with T5 it goes to 5/10 blinds but doesn't matter if you win with 5T when blinds are still 1/2 because it doesn't count because Gods are actually speaking. They must speak in order.)
Basically he got obsessed with playing bigger games and now if I get a sign from Gods I can ask him heads up "wanna play a better game?" and if he says "yes" I min raise and he folds and I show and blinds go up. Works 99% of the time.

So here's an example of him being "not solid" (e.g. today we played no limit hold'em with a 1 card from the flop window card shown preflop...I'll show you an example of how "not solid" he is. Today he bought in for 300 and blinds were 2/5 after sign from Gods was activated from another player showing 25 during our originally 1/2 game which turned into 1/3 after A3 sign from Gods was activated LOL good game I know I know. Within 30minutes he is down to his last 180. So window comes K and we're four handed. I fold UTG, button folds. SB raises to 30 all day and villain from the hands above instantly shoves all in. SB tanks for a bit and says "do you really have KK? oh well, whatever I'm not folding aces" and he calls with aces and is good. Guess what villain has....SIGN FROM GODS OBVIOUSLY. He showed 5T and lost $300.)

See also: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/58...tting-1683276/ for more proof of not solid.

And shoota I apologize for not being clear in that hand description. My excuse is that it was several weeks if not months ago and I don't recall exactly how things went down but the important parts of the hand are described accurately but I may have had like suits slightly off or something or the pot off ~$20-$30 difference or so but overall pretty accurate.

I'll start posting some spoiler results when people post opinions about hands so here's a start:

Hand 1 yes it was heads up. All these hands were heads up...

Hand 2:

Hand 3:

Looking for more advice/opinions/discussion. Thanks guys.