If the blinds are high and your short stacked your just going to have to call one of his all ins, but you should be going all in yourself when your in the SB in order to steal his blind...never call from the SB, unless you've got a great hand and your sure he'll raise...if you just call with an okay hand you wanted to see a flop with, say J8, and he raises you all in, you'll probably end up folding the best hand (J8 is much better than the average hand heads up), where as if you raised in the first place you put the decission on him, he has to call or fold, he can't raise you out of the hand any more...

remember 2/7o is only 25-75% against KA...which is pretty much the worst scenario, pocket pairs come only 6% of hands, he wont have one...you might be getting junk every had, but so is he, don't let him push you around

once you've play against him HU for some hands you'll probably be able to see from how he bets how good his hands are...generally tho if someone goes all in preflop they don't have that strong a hand, because they're showing that they don't want to be called...

basically, at some point, unless he always folds to your raises, you going to have get lucky tho...but lucky as in winning a 50/50 maybe 40/60 race, usually nothing worst...

If someone was doing this to me I would call with any 2 cards 8 or higher, or any pair, or any Ace or King

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And in contrast to steves post, when we played our HU match, the PF portion of each hand became a formality, one of us would raise, the other would call almost any bet less than 6bb's with any 2 cards. For the most part. Then we started playing once the flop hit. We were just basically building the pot so we could manipulate odds at each other, and make huge bluffs with 52o.