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Originally Posted by Ac3sWild
Here is an example of one of the concepts I'd like to discuss. This example was in a short handed game - 3 handed. Player was very Loose aggressive and raised button. SB (Loose Passive) folded. I am the BB and call with As 10c.
Flop: 2c 7s 8c
I check he bets. I call.
Turn: Ks
I check he bets. I call.
River: 3c
Three handed poker is different than a full ring game. The range of hands you should raise or call with pre-flop is expanded. One important question is are your opponents experienced short handed players or are they full ring players sitting at this table hoping it fills up soon.
I use to make a lot of money in online poker sitting at empty full ring tables and playing full ring players heads up or three way. This situation would only exist for a few hands. Either the table would fill up and not be short handed anymore or the full ring players would leave. I'm not even a very good short handed player, but I was way better than the online full ring players. Now that I play live, tables will break if they get short handed because live players will not play short handed.
When you say this player is "very Loose aggressive", do you mean by full ring standards? If that is the case, he might be playing much closer to optimal in a 3 handed game.
In any event i would show this hand down.