some heads-up players want to give their money away

[akishore 0]

2/4 six max table that just broke down and villian and i have been swapping chips back and forth heads-up for a while.he started off as extremely insanely weak/tight (folding his sb sometimes, folding to my preflop raises sometimes, folding a lot postflop, etc.). he clearly didn't have any experience playing heads-up.i think after about 15 minutes he realized i was exploiting his virginity and, like a light switch, he has just turned on some insane aggression. i haven't seen a hand yet, but he's gotten way too wild for me to be cautious anymore.i sense some tilt and these three hands happen consecutively.note: i'm including results because they are clearly important as far as reads go. i'm sure some of you can be objective enough to not care about the results when analyzing the hands.hand 1:i'm sb (button) with 10 5 .i raise, i call.(6 sb) K 6 5 villian bets, i call.(4 bb) 3 villian bets, i call.(6 bb) 10 villian bets, villian calls.i show 10d5d (two pair), villian mucks QsJs (queen high).i win 14 bb.hand 2:i'm bb with K J .villian raises, i call.(8 sb) 10 9 4 i bet, i call.(8 bb) 8 i bet, i call.(12 bb) Q i check, villian bets, villian calls.i show KdJd (straight), villian mucks As7d (ace high).i win 20 bb.hand 3:i'm sb with Q J .i complete, villian checks.(2 sb) 9 7 6 villian checks, i check.(1 bb) 8 villian checks, i check.(1 bb) 10dvillian bets, villian calls all-in.i show QdJh (straight), villian shows Ah3h (ace high, missed flush).i win 5 BB, villian is broke and leaves. tell me your thoughts on:1. calling down on hand 1 (i wasn't folding to a river bet if it was a brick). remember, the only read i had at this point was that he has suddenly gotten wild. are there better spots??2. playing hand 2 as aggressively as i did. any spots where you do something different?3. not raising hand 3 preflop, seeing how aggro he has gotten.4. checking behind on both the flop and turn in hand 3. do you bet the turn, for example?aseem

[Actuary 3]

sure be nice to have a HUSH forum so I could really hone my skills and focus on these posts. :-)

[Sushiman 0]

I don't play any shorthanded limit but here goes. 1) I would have ended up giving it up. Board is pretty scary.2) I would have just called the raise and checked-called the turn. I'm not sure jamming here is +EV, especially since there's zero fold equity. Given the villian's behavior, he's going to be giving me all the action I want if I hit my hand, so why play into him with a possible inferior holding. 3) Given that the villian is shortstack and on megatilt, I feel he'd simply checkraise all in with any holding if I bet. I'd take the free cards and hope to hit. On a side note, the rake for headsup play on a lot of sites is totally insane. Where were you playing and how much did the rake end up costing.

[screech 0]

1) Very well played. You have a showdownable hand HU, you get there as cheaply as possible.2) I wouldn't bet the turn. I think you have zero fold equity, and you're likely to get raised. Rest of the hand is good.3 &4) I raise pf. you have the button and you have a hand that's better than random. Checking the flop and turn are good since you can't really semi-bluff this guy.

[MrNiceGuy 0]

1)  Very well played.  You have a showdownable hand HU, you get there as cheaply as possible.2)  I wouldn't bet the turn.  I think you have zero fold equity, and you're likely to get raised.  Rest of the hand is good.3 &4)  I raise pf.  you have the button and you have a hand that's better than random.  Checking the flop and turn are good since you can't really semi-bluff this guy.

I was thinking all of these same things.