Here is my answer to #1, I will get to the rest as soon as I have time. This is a great idea Sauce. Thanks for creating this exercise. I am treating this like a workbook problem so I haven’t read any responses to the questions before posting my answers. I’m sorry if I repeated anything already said.

This villain is effectively increasing the stakes while decreasing the depth of stacks. He’s just dumb enough to do it with ATC. I would make adjustments appropriate for a 33bb deep game. Of course the blinds are still low, so I can wait for premium hands, but if I want to beat the other players to the fish’s stack I have to open up a bit to a range I am comfortable in yet still have a decent edge. I don’t want to flip coins or else I’d go to Eddie’s hangout in “Vegas Vacation”.

Obviously my first adjustment after identifying his range will be to loosen up my 4betting & pushing requirements to include all of my openers since I will miss the flop 2/3 of the time. My 4bets would be larger than normal as to get as much money in pre since again I will miss flops quite a bit. As I define his calling/pushing range, I can begin to lower the amount of my 4bets. My opening range will include all hands that have good all-in equity PF. I will drop all SC’s and add a ton of Ax hands to my opening range. My new opening/pushing range is any A, K9+, QJ+, 55+. I fully intend to go stacks with any of these hands after four betting so I want to have more equity than 55% vs ATC. This range should give me over 60% equity in any hand that he is willing to gambol w/ ATC. I should also have better than BE equity against the top 30% of his holdings. I obviously don’t think he is going to 5bet push or call a push with ATC. He may 3bet fold with 50-70% of his holdings. Obviously I don’t have to get him to 3bet/fold very often to be profitable.

I guess my second, less profitable, adjustment would be to only expand my 4betting range slightly(AT+, 77+, KQ+) and only play premiums unless OTB. From the BU I would limp/call raises in position on him with many speculative hands such as Axs, SC’s, and low PP’s. This last piece of advice can apply to the first adjustment since it only applies to BU play. I must admit I’m not fond of letting him take the lead though.

Third adjustment is to move tables, but this is seems -EV vs. this opponent. If running on a short bankroll this solution may be the most prudent. How much Gambool do you have?

I don’t anticipate doing this very many hands before he adjusts/goes broke and starts 3betting less, as he is now very exploitable. I figure showing down anything like Ax, or 2 lower broadway cards in a 4bet pot will prompt him to tighten back up. My response will be to still 4bet/push light, but now just with a standard light 3bettor range for doing so. 77+, AQ+.