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Hi creed,

This is a great situation. For this guy to run his chips up to 2000 probably means others are adjusting badly, or he's getting lucky and his best hands are the ones that happen to get action, or a combination. This improves the chances that he'll still have chips when you pick up a big hand.

Stop limping with stuff you normally would limp with. Just fold AJ and worse, and push with AQ+ and TT+. If you want, make it only 600 or so with AA/KK/QQ and get the rest in no matter what. If you get the chance to limp behind him with a "bust'em" hand like Axs, do it, and then look to make 2 pair or better.

Put this game on autopilot, and start focusing on another game, as long as you're paying enough attention to see if he's now only doing this occasionally (which would mean he's doing it with monsters). If you do it this way, you'll eventually peel 1000 off him with the best hand.

When you pushed with AK and ran into JJ, it was an unfortunate coincidence, but no harm done, of course. Don't get suckered into calling 150 with 77 and then deciding that you probably have the best hand on a 9 6 4 flop. You don't need to gamble with this guy. Of course, if you get 2000 in front of you, then you'll want to call 100-150 with 77 for set value, if he's following up with big bets. You're going to lose some blinds waiting for a big hand, but just your equity vs. his open-raise amount will generally recover all of them, not to mention if he calls your reraise.

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Very well put, sir. Nice hand