Comments on: It stinks to play against super aggressive players :(

By: Francoise Girona

Francoise Girona — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 04:35:50 +0000

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By: Bruce the hugger

Bruce the hugger — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:11:53 +0000

You have to open up your range. Top pair is a monster and you have to raise. Raise or fold. Use check raises also. Go all in if you think it is a coin flip and make the other guy decide. Play in position also. Calling is for hurrrrrting Lee Haneys.

By: donkfish

donkfish — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 17:15:56 +0000

“In position, I am limping with a wide range of hands including my monsters. I will limp with AK or AQ and if raised, I will shove it all in… Plus, my hand is always disguised.”

I don’t think your hand is very well disguised if you shove it in – all this does it make him fold the worst hand. You should be building pots with your good hands, not shoving – calling or min-raising would be better IMO. If you have AK and don’t connect OOP, you may have to let the hand go [after all, it's only A high]. JMO.

By: Tilted Fisher

Tilted Fisher — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 13:55:59 +0000

Edit: Sorry for the horrible, post earlier. I think I was a few beers down, few k hands down, and very tired or something.

I think we could enter that in the worst post/worst grammer, ever.

Big Blatch, Hit the nail on the head. +1 on his post.

By: Bret

Bret — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 19:07:29 +0000

thx for all the feedback…you guys are all prob right

By: Bruce

Bruce — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 17:11:57 +0000

dude stop playing those, theyre a joke. that format doesnt give u enough room to exploit those types of villains.

By: Lesmurphy77

Lesmurphy77 — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 16:31:45 +0000

Breto,
Is this post some sort of giant level? You cannot reinvent the wheel. Do you really think this is a profitable way to beat HU sng’s? Are you really complaining about guys that call your all ins with King high and other shit? This is a good thing, not a bad thing. It’s called a value bet….look it up, and stop firing C bets and bluffing calling stations.

Value bet the shit out of them
Win pots
profit
Easy game

Murph

By: Tilted Fisher

Tilted Fisher — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 05:25:00 +0000

Bret,
Dude, I feel you bro. I dont play s & gs, but I play cash. Still none the less, aggro opponents are very tough to deal with man. My main suggestion is try to apply pressure when you can. Just because some donk made a hero call, at least you know your read is right, rather being pissed, be happy you at least made the good read. Secondly don’t be afraid to wait for big pots. Finally apply more pressure preflop. If they want to be dbags and defend 3 bets with shit, then fine we will 3 bet with 77s planning to get it in. You know.

Overall, a lag is the most challenging player just because of the dynamics of the game. I can’t really give you any good advice, the one thing I do know, is its these challenges that make us grow. (s0rry for the emo)

By: bret

bret — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:35:50 +0000

all good points bigblatch- thx for the info. easier said than done tho

By: bigblatch

bigblatch — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 09:18:41 +0000

It seems to me that your whole post is describing how to beat the super aggressive type of player you hate playing against:

He calls down your bluffs really light / he never folds. So stop bluffing with air. Make thin value bets with weak hands and better knowing you’ll often get called down with weaker ones.

He won’t fold to c-bets. So don’t c-bet as much with air. C-bet more with anything that connects with the flop.

He’s super aggressive, will fire 3 streets with weak hands or air. Trap him and call down with your decent marginal hands and big hands.

He’ll fold to big raises and shoves. So raise and/or shove with flush draws and open enders. He’ll either fold the best hand, or he’ll call you with hands that you can often outdraw. Can’t be afraid to gamble.

Anyway, that’s what I’d do…I enjoy playing the super aggressive players the most. Nothing more satisfying than having one bluff off their whole stack to you, or to shove with the nuts and have him call you down with middle pair…