Playing HU against crazy Philipino. Every street in this hand was confusing. Should I be 5bet potting, should I click it back 5bet pf. Post flop should I check call flop and wait for safe turn then jam? He is opening 85% of buttons and 3betting 44% over 100 hands. He has been mixing up his flop cbet size in 3bet pots between half pot and full pot, also has a checking range. Any thoughts on each street would be nice. Starting with pf for now.

[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $1/$2 Pot Limit Omaha Cash, 2 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #11795552

SB: $395.38 (197.7 bb)
Hero (BB): $477.76 (238.9 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A 5 8 A
SB raises to $4, Hero raises to $12, SB raises to $26, Hero....

I re-raise pot.

Pot.

Show us the flop.

I'd quit pre deal

Potting is fine OOP, makes postflop simpler.

Potpotpotpot.

Pwat

Your potbet will be 26+52 = $78, if he calls thats $160.

SPR will be pretty close to 2:1.

Somethings to think about:

Is your range only AAxx when 5-betting preflop?
If so:
-You better be pretty sure that he is worse / crazy enough to stack off bad, fold bad or generally **** things up postflop.

Because folding your hand after 5betting would be pretty horrid, unless you are certain that you are beat, which is pretty impossible.

If your range here is only aces, that is alot of information to give to an opponent when you cannot autoshove all flops.

true, he can't and shouldn't autoshove all flops, but villain will also have to fold a ton of flops, which will more than make up for the dead money we occasionally have to give up.

I guess he probably perceives your 5bet as mostly AA, but I still 5bet this. And your range shouldn't be only aces, especially with the small 4bet that indicates that he hasn't got aces. You can 5bet AKQJ, KKxx, 9876 type hands here and pwn him.

5bets HU do not exclusivly have to be AAxx. Especially not against this villain.

5b pot it.

Yep. Potting is probably better and managed to put myself in a more difficult spot on this flop.

[converted_hand][hand_history]Poker Stars, $1/$2 Pot Limit Omaha Cash, 2 Players
Poker Tools Powered By Holdem Manager - The Ultimate Poker Software Suite. View Hand #11800362

SB: $395.38 (197.7 bb)
Hero (BB): $477.76 (238.9 bb)

Preflop: Hero is BB with A 5 8 A
SB raises to $4, Hero raises to $12, SB raises to $26, Hero calls $14

Flop: ($52) 3 5 3 (2 players)
Hero checks, SB bets $51.50, Hero...

I pot and pray he doesn't hit his flush or his King.

Isn't this why we 5 bet pot pre and avoid thinking post flop situations, due to pot odds? As played I'm getting it in and prays he doesn't have a spade draw/3/OESD/55.

5bet pre.

As played I write haha in the chat and shove with a smile.