Quote Originally Posted by storm75m
Dale, I'm not sure if I agree with the "never fold your small blind" statement.
There's really no compelling reason to fold when you're getting 3:1 with any starting hand & position, although I understand your point about the psychology of it. I should say, I do arbitrarily fold about one hand in ten from the small blind for those reasons in longer (usually live game) heads up matches. I rarely do it online - playing my style, the heads up section rarely lasts long enough for it to be meaningful. My main goal, except on those rare occasions I run into a player as aggressive as I am, is to lean on my opponent; steal a bunch of small to medium pots and get him into a situation of having 1/4 of my chips or less; then start REALLY raising him until he has to pick two and go. With fairly large blinds (at least 150/300, assuming Party's average stack size for heads up play of 4000) this is a ridiculously effective approach.

Back to the "never fold your small blind" thing - there are (rarely) reasons to fold from the small blind, and most of them relate to psychological warfare. But for someone just asking for advice on heads up play, and wondering why they rarely win in it, I'll stick to "never" as a good starting point. Folding even semi-regularly from your small blind is a leak. You have position, you're probably about a 40/60 or 35/65 dog, even holding some of the worst POS hands imaginable... do not make a habit of folding. Make a habit of raising instead, but if that's too scary or it's been getting you in trouble, at least call.