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Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2005, 2:38pm Post subject: what do you do against a maniac to your right
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Flush
Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Posts: 366
WPP: 244
Location: california
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I sat down at a table at B&M yesterday (2-4 limit). The guy to my immediate right had built his 1 stack to 3. He was raising almost every single hand, especially if he was the blinds, CO, Button, MP3.
Makes it a lot easy to fold because you have to cold call now. He was betting, check raising the whole way and somehow catching cards (raising with Kx suited in CO or blinds, and making the flush or at least 2 pair, reraising with A2o and after catching his Ace on the flop and still winning that hand wtf !!). the other times he wasnt, i was suspecting that the other chasers would give up by the river or the only person to call by the river was having worse hands than him.
some times of course he would bet till the river and when bet into the river he would fold saying he had good hand and but would let the other person win that pot...   
How do you play against such a player. I have position but my cards are crap. Do you start playing broadway suited cards in this case or continue to play tight. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2005, 2:45pm Post subject:
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Royal Flush
Joined: 12 Dec 2003
Posts: 18762
WPP: 81
Location: I'll Do You Like A Truck
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| 3-bet a wide range and be prepared to go the the river a lot. Sometimes even cold-call if you can't isolate. You can't let him fold you out when you have a pretty good hand. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2005, 2:53pm Post subject:
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Straight
Joined: 29 May 2005
Posts: 172
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Location: Loyal son of Rochester
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| Fnord wrote: | | What he said. |
At 2/4 B&M, 3-betting might not isolate him, but my strategy is to reraise with anything with showdown value (basically A8+ and any pair) and call him down unless the board really sucks. I believe I got this from HEFAP. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2005, 4:29pm Post subject:
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Full House
Joined: 12 Dec 2004
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| the rake at 2-4 B&M has to be sick, unless it's a total fish fry you're getting robbed. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2005, 4:48pm Post subject:
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Flush
Joined: 28 Nov 2004
Posts: 446
WPP: 180
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| Fnord wrote: | | 3-bet a wide range and be prepared to go the the river a lot. Sometimes even cold-call if you can't isolate. You can't let him fold you out when you have a pretty good hand. |
I agree 1000% .....
Good point about cold calling when isolation plays tend to not work at your table because either (i) they won't frikin' fold, or less frequently (ii) they are on to your isolation attempts are are trying to thwart your counter strategy with their own by also coming in with pretty good, but not great hands too. I've been in games where I've had to change back and forth between 3-betting and cold calling Mr. Maniac on my right because the players on my left changed and as a result they collectively and sytematically reacted differently to my 'get the maniac' strategies.
You do have to be prepared to take a on a little more variance in this kind of situation however. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2005, 4:53pm Post subject:
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 28 Jan 2005
Posts: 2654
WPP: 90
Location: Arlington, VA
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| I'm playing in some high-speed short-handed $3/$6 games right now and just had a similar experience with a player to my immediate right. When he'd raise preflop I'd reraise most decent hands and play fairly aggressively for the remainder of the hand. That's the approach I think is best. |
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Posted: Fri, 30 Sep 2005, 6:02pm Post subject:
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4-of-a-Kind
Joined: 04 Jul 2005
Posts: 1752
WPP: 77
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| Quote: | | all that was said already |
And consider yourself lucky (or smart) that he wasn't on your left raising your limps  |
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