Dealing with Live MTT Super Nit's - Hypothetical Situation
Join Date: Mar 2017
Posts: 9
Okay, so my local casino has a couple weekly tournaments and there is always about 10 - 12 super nits that buy in just to wait for monsters. If you get 3 bet by these guys you I can 99.5% guarantee that they have 1 of 2 hands, regardless of position (i'll let you guess which two). I have literally seen one of these guys open limp the cutoff with QQ, and after the hand was over he said "what if Ace come on the flop...I'm dead". These guys also get married to their hands, probably because they wait so long to have a "playable hand", so if you out flop them they will ship it all on the flop so they don't get "out drawn". (<- this is another quote from one of the other guys who open shoved a 9 high dry flop with kings, the pot was 900 he shoved over 6K) With that long winded background being said (sorry) here is a scenario that I have not run into yet but I would like to know what is the right play. Lets say I have some kind of middle suited connector early and raise 2.5 bb and it folds to one of these guys(sitting behind me) and he 3 bets to 10bb I now know he has AA or KK 99.5% of the time. I also know if I out flop him I am going to stack him (lets say we are both sitting on a 25bb stack) I know I am dominated 4:1, and I don't think am not getting the right price to call but is it still a profitable call long term (against specifically these types of players) because of the implied odds....if this question is in the wrong area please let me know and I can move it...if it is not specific enough please let me know and I will edit it....any help would be appriciated!
Join Date: Apr 2013
Posts: 116
1. What casino exactly?
2. Wrong forum.
3. Fold.
Join Date: Mar 2013
Posts: 3,090
Calling off 40% of your stack pre-flop with only 25BB is probably the incorrect play in at least 90% of situations IMO. Holding a spec hand against a nit is definitely in that 90%.
Join Date: Dec 2011
Posts: 2,072
The correct adjustment against those guys is to steal their blinds and a lot of small pots from them, not go for them when they have AA or KK unless you are in the first 2 levels and can see a relatively cheap flop.
Join Date: May 2017
Posts: 12
I always said " if I know my opponent has aces I'm calling ATC".... But not for 40 % of my stack thats just ludacris. Poker is about picking your spots. If he's opening and u KNOW he's got aces/Kings id even call with 27o if we're the price is reasonable. Look at it like set mining. Now as far as the 3 bet goes. You just gotta play that smart. Did he 3 bet u? Did he 3 bet someone else and you're in the middle? Do u have anything invested. Things like that. But in your specific situation stated it's a fold boss