Theory: Playing HU vs nits

[ipokeder]

how do you do it

i have no [censored] idea. does ANYONE not spew against nits HU? i don't just mean like ppl who repop with a tight range. i mean really [censored] nitty, like 28/20 hu but play aggro whenever they're in a hand. what are you supposed to do to win [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

all i ever find myself able to do is to quit them and privately take solace in the notion that they probably will not be winning much in the long run cuz of their nittiness even tho i can't do [censored] about it

this might be a stupid post but w/e i might as well try

thanks

[xorbie]

beat them very, very slowly.

[ipokeder]

whenever i try to do that i usually end up going like slowly slowly building up my stack, getting 3-bet or calling a 3-bet and folding the flop and going back to normal, slowly going up again and then getting c/r'd on a flop, etc ad infinitum

and then of course half an hour later i get AI with a gutshot + flush draw vs a set and lose and then i dunno what i wasted my last half hour doing so i start to get pissed and donate some more ~_~

at least against a normal opponent you have some hope that maybe you'll be able to win back some money if you change it up or start trying to push him around. but vs these guys it just seems like you CANT change the flow of the match no matter how hard you try, they'll just slowly slip the dollar bills out of your back pocket while you're mouth off at them

[DMoogle]

Minraise every button. Profit.

[Pasterbator]

dont call 3bets against nits without hands that will flop well against AA. that means fold KJ and QJ and such.

make your continuation bets smaller.

make all your bets smaller.

profit.

[Ship Ship McGipp]

god damn i hate to play nits hu

[tannenj]

uh, outplay them the same way you would in a 6max game?

steal their blinds, cbet, double barrel liberally, etc. hand read better than them.

[ipokeder]

^ that doesn't really work as advice because it's wayyyyyyy harder to scare a nit heads up when he doesn't feel obligated to loosen up

and hand reading also tends to be a lot harder vs nits i think but i might just be crazy. iono, nits tend to take really weird lines with lots of hands and are more able to take similar lines with diff hands because their hand ranges are more constricted so they look harder to differentiate

[ogdundar]

Nits tend to pot control so much you misinterpret their good hands as weak ones. I don't find multi barreling them so effective, if they have a hand they tend to go with it in their check/call mode.

[d2themfi]

steal their antes as much as possible until/if they adjust. you have to adjust ur ranges for getting a lot of money in both preflop and postflop. Just realize that legitimate hands go down in value vs them, while bluffing and semi bluffing increase in value. They are easy to exploit it just takes patience, which I have found is fairly hard to have when you are playing HU