[creedofhubris]

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I don't agree with #1 or #5 at all.

Watch Phil Ivey play, you will see rules 1,2 and 5 violated with frequency.

One of my greatest moments while playing HU was when I was playing a semi competent player who I realized played very similarly to my "normal" style and that we were just passing around blinds, we weren't going to stack eachother unless some type of cooler was involved.

So what did I do? I limped the button, min-raised pre and he just had no answer. I literally played every hand in position. I quickly started grinding on him and varied my raises pre from min to 4xBB. I ended up 4 buy-ins on him mostly because I did a total 180 from what he was expecting.

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If your opponent sucks, then you can turn folds into limps; it's turning raises into limps that's the problem. Someone who routinely limps is usually passing up raises to do so, not playing 100% of pots.

I really don't see what good minraising preflop does, unless your opponent's folding most of his hands to your minraises, which is, again, not standard.