If a guy is shoving every single hand...

[Talking Poker]

OK, so let's focus on the HU SNG, since that's what I was playing when this actually happened.

I disagree with your comment about calling with any 2 cards, because in the long run, all you are doing is flipping and losing to the rake. With SHORT(er) stacks where the blinds are meaningful, I get having to loosen your range way up... but with 75 BB deep stacks, you can certainly fold 8 straight hands, dropping you down to 70 BBs before calling with a pretty strong hand, right? if you win that, he's got 10 BBs and finishing him off should be pretty easy.

When this played out, I went with ranges close to what most people are saying (a little bit tighter), but was questioning myself after the fact, wondering if I should have been more patient.

FWIW, here's how the 6 $200+10 HU SNGs went (# of hands played before I called in ()):

AQs < 94 (2)
A8 < 55 (6)
KJ < QTs (2)
AQ < 42 (2)
AK < A2 (1)
AJ > K3s (1)

And then he quit me, took the $ to $10/$20 PLO and potted every action until he was > $5k, and then he went to $25/50 PLO and I had to stop watching.

As for me: 6 matches, 14 hands, -$860.

I know I said I was questioning if I should have played tighter, but obv all those hands are fine. Only the KJ and A8 are even remotely debatable, and I think those are pretty clear calls.

[Kurn]

My bad. HU SNG as opposed to HU at the end of a normal SNG, you're right. At lower blinds, fold equity is minimal so there's no reason to take the risk of ruin to deny him that.

The math behind the idea that it is impossible to make shoving ATC -cEV is only valid at higher blind levels.