Note: I know discussions about seats have been done before but I thought this was unique because it got some discussion going and this was such a rare type of villain.


I was watching the vlog that TheTrooper97 put up called Free Money Giveaway on this page:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/10.../index216.html

Villain said out loud what his cards were PF in every hand for a couple of hours. Villain was not caught lying and always had what he said. Villain was drunk. The rest of the table mucked when they didn't have anything. Villain folded when he didn't have anything (by this I think Trooper meant postflop, not PF because he also called villain a maniac, and it sounds like villain did a lot of chasing postflop).

Villain also did weird stuff like open to 30 with T2. For more details about hands you can go to a little after 7:00 in the video.


So here's the question I have:

If you were Trooper, where would you try to sit? On his left or on his right? Some people argued that sitting to the left of this villain was better. Others argued that sitting to his right was better.

Sit where you will be able to get heads up with him most often

I think I'd still get on his left. Yes I understand the argument for getting on his right but being on his left, it would be easier to isolate him heads up. I'd take position over him as much as possible.

Doesn't it depend hugely on his PFR%? If it's high, we want to be on his right to l/rr frequently. If it's low, we want to be on his left to isolate the bejeezus out of him.

Interesting responses so far. At first I was thinking on his left was better but I did hear a persuasive (IMO) case for sitting on his right. But I don't want to influence responses yet so I want to see what others say. If anyone skims this thread and thinks "Well duh of course you sit on his left," then I think they should think about this more because it's not as obvious as that.

you often want to be on a Maniac's right so that you have relative position, that is, the hand really starts when the maniac acts, so you get to see if anybody is lying in the weeds before action gets to you. (there is a COTM on relative position in the stickies)

here, you kinda have a similar thing. as a bonus, position on this guy isn't so important anymore. one of the reasons for position is due to the info gained by V action. we already got all of the info.

on the other hand, we're going to make our money at this table from this guy, so maybe we want position

I'll guess on his right is better though

relative position (on his right) is best IF you can predict what V will do.
because then you get to see what V does and how the whole table reacts to him.
the problem then becomes you must limp in with every hand not knowing if V is even going to be in it!

but on his left is good too - because you will know exactly when V is raising and how much. But the problem is you can get trapped by players at the table who may 3-bet or smooth call with a much better, dominating hand.

maybe across the table gives us the best of both worlds?

It's hard to go wrong against someone who gives away his hand. I'd think his right would be best so you could blat everyone out of the pot at every opportunity regardless of your cards. Im talking about ATC. If no one shows any aggression you raise him EVERY hand.

In the other thread these comments were made on pages 217 and 218: