Playing against a 100% pure calling station

Occasionally playing online I will run into a 100% pure calling station. This is not your standard calling station. This person never never never raises. If this person bets it is only a minbet. This person will call any standard flop bet with the nuts, set, 2 pair, top pair, middle pair, flush draws, straight draws, occasionally air. Never raises.

Against typical calling stations you valuebet your good hands and dont bother bluffing, but typical calling stations will eventually raise their strong holdings alerting you to danger. Playing against a 100% pure calling station you get no information at all postflop since they take the same minbet/call or call line with almost every holding.

I do consistently beat these players but I feel I could do alot better. I will bet pot into them on the flop with TPTK, get a call, and have no clue what to do on the turn. Since they could have anything from garbage to the nuts.

What is the optimal strategy against these opponents?
Valuebet monsters, smallball medium holdings?
If I end up playing alot of smallball am I losing value?

I feel like im playing devoid of information and have alot of trouble with decision-making in hands versus these opponents.
Help?

If someone is a calling station, simply play tight ABC poker and take all their money.

smallball is bad, bet 2/3 pot size and let them make mistakes. if they draw out on you, rebuy. very important to rebuy on calling stations because even on a 75/25 you will miss 1 out of 4 times...go get your chips back if need be, don't be scared. Calling stations are great.

only read your title, but.. this is my advice:

don't bluff. just bet when you have good. check when you have bad. that's it.

if you get outdrawn. whatever. make him pay to play and hopefully don't pay him off when he does outdraw you.

value bet. don't bluff

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by pokerroomace

only read your title

---

:shock:


If theyre that bad then it should be fairly easy to control the pot sizes. Make bigger bets (sometimes overbets) with really strong hands, 2/3 or so with TPTK and 1/2 or so with weaker top pairs. They probably arent paying much attention to bet sizes so it should be really easy to play big pots with strong hands and small pots with weaker hands.

Oh yea. And fold if they raise :p