This is what HRC has to say about it:
http://hands.holdemresources.net/?id=s3h88tmp25px
Most of the time I make a bad fold, call or shove, I'm really close, so I don't mind much.
But this one I was way off the mark.
Villain was mostly min-raising though up to that point, so I hung back.
It makes me wonder how often I do this.
My question is:
If you know that villain is shoving a narrower range -- and calling a narrower range, how do you adjust?
Thanks
VS
In HRC, you can double-click on anyone's range and change it manually - it will then be locked - then press Alt+R or click a button with a green arrow at the top to calculate the optimal response ranges for the unlocked player(s).
At the stack depth of 5 bb, people usually play shove/fold, therefore a narrower range is surely stronger, an optimal response calling range is tighter, whereas the optimal response shoving range to a narrow calling range is wider/weaker than the Nash one because the fold equity is bigger.
Examples:
optimal calling vs a narrower shover
optimal shoving vs a narrower caller
When stacks are deeper than 7 bb, though, HUSNG regs tend to minraise and limp polarised ranges and openshove capped ranges, weaker than Nash push/fold ones, so the optimal calling range vs them is wider than the Nash one.
E.g.
9 bb Nash
optimal calling vs a more realistic 9 bb openshove range*
* Please bear in mind that I'm rather bad at the HU phase, so my proposed range may be still different from what regs play. The difference between this range and the Nash one are the hands that are limped, either as a trap (medium-big pocket pairs, strong Ax, broadways) or as an attempt to see the flop for cheap (limp/fold). Also, regs minraise some hands at 10 bb and some of them do so at 8 bb too, again, either as a trap or as a blocker bluff. For a general idea of how to balance ranges, read the 'Small Blind Play at 11-14 bb' chapter of Mersenneary's ebook or just search the internet for the famous 'ROFL chart' from that chapter.
