Player has won $13 over 600 games. Dunno if he jumped up limits and got pwned because he seemed to be a decent player except the fact he was a bit of a station/made hero calls like no tomorrow.

I had trouble against him let me describe the dynamics:

- Tends to bet turns/rivers in non-aggro pots easily taking them down, have tried bluff raising him a couple times but he often cold calls so I'm guessing he's going for thin value

- 3-bets like crazy. Makes small 3-bets constantly to my BTN raises. In my 3-4 games against him sometimes I'd call with my stronger hands/4-bet but often I'd miss the flop and he'd follow up with a strong c-bet so I'd bleed chips to him by calling. I couple times where he'd 3-bet and check down the board he'd show up with 73o, etc. so I know he's not just doing it for value.

- When I did 4-bet light sometimes he'd fold but for the most part he'd snap shove over or call me.

I'm new to Stars and their structure feels much slower so perhaps as a past Fulltilt player I'm pushing the action too hard. Over these 3-5 games I was very card dead so I had to resort to value betting hard and couldn't find many big hand vs big hand spots for stacks.

First off, on stars do you find you can play a bit more passive/slow down?

Secondly against these players do you find it best to just slow down, value bet your hands lightly or do you take it to another whole level and just aggro the **** out of them. I did some 4-bet shoving against him but then he'd snap call me with A-5 and pwn my KJo. Small sample size I know but in many spots his style made me feel like I was getting outplayed and I probably was as these were my first games in a month.

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going back to studying my husng vids in a bit.

I think you are looking at this in a very dangerous way.

You need to start thinking about his goals and his gameplan then that will give you and idea on his ranges. Once you know that, choosing the correct line becomes easier. The way you describe it is difficult for me to truly get a good picture, but it sounds like he isn't scared to get it in light, and if you are card dead it might be a good idea to slow things down and see if he continues.

He's probably not the greatest, so my first strategy would be to just wait for something decent and jam the crap out of it.

Widen your 4bet shoving range
Widen your calling range, and bluff raise flops

Never just call his 3bets w strong hands with the intention of folding if you miss the flop.