A general strat question in a wierd spot.

Playing 1/2 $300 max. I get moved to a table and have about $400. Most at the table are in the $200-$600 range. There's a particular kind of LAG to my left. He is the master of the gutterball. He says his favorite hand is 68 and I believe him. Every time I play him he wins or loses big mostly on gutterball hands. He plays premiums like a weak-tight nit.

He takes a few pots from me with his usual range against TPTK/Overpair hands on my part . Then he loses a few hands to others and starts tilting.

Everytime I straddle the button for $5, he blind raises to $15-$20. I also am getting good but not nutted holdings. Lets say generally effective between $250-$400 and get put in strange SPR spots.


Hand 1: Straddle / blind 15 / 2 callers. I have A9ss make it $90 take it down.
Hand 2: straddle / blind 15 / 3callers. I have AQss make it $115. gutterball calls. Flop 883r. He jams for $250. I fold he shows 66.
Hand 3: same / 3 callers I have AQo again, jam for $250 take it down.
Hand 4: straddle blind 15 / 1 call nit raises to $40 / I have AQs again. Call. UTG caller back jams for $350 nit calls I fold. UTG had AKs, nit had JJ.

I think there were 2 instances mixed in where I had trash and just folded to the $15 raise.


So we are taking 150bb poker to 20bb poker. Should I have just jammed all of these holdings? Raise 4x and likely have multiple callers? Flat and play in position and GII when we make TP? Or results aside, do what I did.

1 fold pre
2 fine
3 fine
4 raise pre the first time, as played fold to the 40$. I'm not flatting to a nit with AQ.

In these types of games you should tighten up your pre flop range a little more because SPR becomes very low and you're often at an all in or fold decision on the flop or by the turn.

I think all hands are fine, if I have a BDFD in #2 I'd be very tempted to call.

Yes, if he almost always has 33-77 you are losing a little but he's very unlikely to have 8x and he doesn't need to have much AJ/KQ or random spew bluffs for it to be fine.


In the bring on the flames bucket ... #4 sometimes I just fold the first time, like AQo/AJs are much easier folds, but when the nit piles $40 in preflop you have no idea what hitting the flop even is (and that assumes you see a flop), and gutter calling means there'll be piles in. Raising seems the worst option.

Anyone jam hand 2? $115 is around 29% of a $400 stack. And the are 3 callers.

Unsure about hand 1, don't mind folding.

Hand 1 I would call with A9s

That's sort of the question I was asking. When stack depths get weird and we have cusp of premium hands, do we just jam here instead of creating 1 SPR pots.

It can't be bad, but I'd assume your raise was better. Esp. so when he donk shoves the flops that are better for him, because then you can just shove every flop he checks and way overrealize.

Even if he plays better post I doubt he folds 66 pre. for a shove if he isn't folding it for $115, and you have position and are uncapped so should overrealize anyway.