One of the main reasons I don't move up in stakes is because I simply fail what seems like everytime I play against this type of player (who I expect to meet at higher stakes more frequently).

He's 50/30/3. So you should reraise him right? He's called every reraise from me or the table for 2 hours. I've seen him open min raise with 74s call a massive reraise (to 30 at a 1/2) and call a pot sized on the flop with a FD and call a turn push still with the FD only. He won when his 7 hit the river and the other guy missed AK.

I've seen him bet a flush draw on every street unimproved, hit on the river, and then bet x2 the pot.

He regularly instabets full pot if you check the turn.

I've had him intstabet full pot at me on the river iwth just K high after I've been calling his bets.

So I have A[d] A[h]. He raises 7, I pop to 35, he calls.

Flop 9[d] 6[c] 2[c]. He cks. I bet 60, he CR min raises me. Hmm. Full stacks.


Okay, here's my problem. With regular guys, I can get away from this hand, but with him? Don't I felt here?

Also, what started to really work against this guy was for me to just check/call him down. He quit lots of nonesense against me.

But, now I'm playing rockish and I'm felting with an overpair which is exactly the opposite of what I normally do. Thoughts?

This is meant as a general comment to your play. I think you should be felting with overpairs (esp AA/KK) a lot more than you currently are.

In this hand I would call his CR and call him down, or put him in if he fails to bet.

Against such a player I would 3bet here most of the time, I just don't understand your thoughts about folding AA in a reraised pot. To do this you should be against a nit and flop should be really horrible, like coordinated one suited (and you don't have an A of that suit).

yeah you need to be felting because his hand range is so wide.

i had a guy similar to this yesterday:

first hand he raises up with with 950 and i call with AQ suited. (didn't know he was a donk yet. lol.

flop 54T two of my suit.

he checks to me. i bet.. he check raises.. i push for a significant amount. he calls with middle pair.

believe it or not i was the favoritebut damn i would have rather had a fold.

later on...

he raises agian.. i repop with AK

flop K54

he checks.. i bet.. he check raises again... i push.. he calls with 57o.

just gotta felt with these types of players.

Main component of my strat would be just what you did. Get a big pair, repop him big preflop (15-20% of your stack), and get it all-in on the flop any way you can every time.

LAG>TAG>CS>LAG>TAG>CS etc

So the orthodox way of playing a LAG is, as you say, to turn into a CS by check/calling him. If this tightens him up, then you can revert back. Either that or find a new table!

I think the biggest thing is it to be able to switch gears and actually recognize when you have tamed him out a little bit and then YOU become the TAG or the LAG reverting back from the CS mode which broke his laggyness initially