Game is usually a 1/2 PLO, but sometimes 2/5. Most of the time stacks are between 1000 and 2000 (regardless of what stakes), though people who have been doing well obviously have more.

Villain is super spewy and absurdly good for the game -- plays any four pre-flop, will typically straddle whenever possible, and pots a lot of the time (sometimes without looking at his cards). In particular, he loves to straddle the max on his button and then pots it about 70% of the time when people have limped in (though he's usually looked at his cards in this case. I don't have a great read on how often he re-pops it when someone else has opened). He also loves to get it all-in pre (so he'll overlimp, someone will pot it, and then he'll jam saying something about how he loves to gamble). He's the highlight of the night, but as you can guess, he usually flames out pretty quickly (goes through 4 or 5 buyins in about 20 minutes then leaves, or runs one of them up pretty big and stays until he busts). Certainly, most of the expectancy at the table comes from getting it all-in good against him -- he'll often call off his stack with two pair or a non-nut flush/straight draw.

The question is, how should I play in order to maximize how much I can exploit him? Where should I sit (directly to his left means I have position on him most hands, but it also means when he pots it pre, I don't get to see how anyone else has acted. to his right, I can usually get my whole stack in pre with premium hands, since he pots it, there's a couple of callers, and then I can shove for typically 50+% of my stack). Do I want to be trying to get it in good pre, or just seeing cheap flops and nut mining to go for a really good shot at his stack? What fraction of hands should I be playing pre-flop, given especially that there's only a 30 minute window to take advantage of so I can't totally nit it up and only play aces? What additional information should I be focusing on to plot out a course of action?

Leave it to the nits to huddle around like humourlesss old priests decrying his luck and feverishly searching for the encantation to banish this ogre of poker from the civility of tight-aggressive play.

Buy shots when you're both all-in on the flop. High-five and laugh whoever wins. Openly deride the nits who will try to berate his play.



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So he never folds postflop essentially? In general, keep the nits to your left and psychos on your right... IMO, I would try to keep my preflop range tighter, but be able to stack off lighter post if that makes any sense....

If game is really deep the easiest adjustment to make is to play shorter and play a wide range of value hands, including rundowns very agressively, look to jam when there is a lot of overlay pre, etc

Seat position matters more when deeper as well, with 100bb idk that sitting to his right is worse

What's the straddle too? I would be trying to get in probably goodish QQ+ hands and AKxx type hands which are going to play well against a completely open range for 100 bb. That being said this is one of those times where you are probably going to need to have a lot of clips in your pocket to keep firing. If you are deeper I wold be a little more selective and very much getting in AKQx hands if he's allowing you to do so they will play well against someone that wide