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Overall Strategy vs Station
When is a good time to let it go against overly sticky players?
I had well over 100 hands against a player with numbers something like 60/4/0 who was limping almost everything and routinely limp-calling >5x, regardless of position. His cold calling frequency is something like 60. My plan was to simply get it in with this player with TP+, value bet with big sizing and thin value, and never bluff.
The problem is that we lose big pots against players like this when they hit gin, while we win small-to-medium ones.
How do we profit while avoiding getting stacked when a player with these numbers turns a wheel straight after we flop top pair aces – and similar disasters?
There’s got to be a better way to build a mouse trap with players like this. Or do we just suck it up, accept the variance, and let them keep feeding the game?
Note: I deliberately left out the hand history of the hand I’m thinking of, because this is more of a general strategy question, and a hand history might get us lost in the weeds.
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I think post flop tendencies matter a lot here…some players are very wide pre-flop and pretty honest on flop or turn, in which case you can take away the pot when they miss and shut down when they start betting.
Other players are more sticky across more streets, in which case you can value bet and rarely bluff.
Either way, knowing you have a range advantage when you get involved is huge. While they do hit sometimes, most of the time they do not, so I think it makes sense to go after a lot of small pots and not keep value betting thin when draws get there and they show aggression.
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