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Originally Posted by cfreaks
If you are going to raise your strong hands and limp your weak ones, you are not going to fare very well HU
Well that's the obvious response that would apply to just about any poker game. But I don't feel like it applies that well to O8.
For one thing, you're playing virtually every hand, and your opponent is almost never folding, so I don't see what advantage raising every hand has over limping every hand.
And if it is right for the button to raise everything, wouldn't that make it right for the BB to reraise almost everything? Wouldn't he be giving away the same info by only flat calling some hands and reraising others that the button would be giving away by mixing his play?
And even if you were to raise your "strong" hands and limp your "weak" hands, it doesn't seem like this would give your opponent that much info about how your hand connects to any particular flop. It's not like you would only be raising low hands and limping high hands. Both ranges would include a pretty wide mix of almost all card combinations. Even if this was slightly unbalanced, you could balance it by mixing in limping with a few combos of very strong hands.
Again, I never play HU, but I am interested in a little more detail about the theory here.