Aggessive player dilemma:

[JDalla]

This refers mostly to 2-6 player games.

I often have this problem when my aggressive opponent caps preflop.


Lets assume for arguments sake: (they capped preflop, we're heads up in the pot)
1) my opponent will 3 bet any flop I raise
2) if I just call, they will bet every street
3) if they have a nut flush or straight draw, top pair or better they will 3 bet the turn if I raise.
4) They will see showdown 100%.
5) their range of hands is 22-AA, A5s-AKs, A7o-AKo, K9s+, KT+, QTs+, QJ+

A few Questions:

A) So I have 99, the flop comes K52 and he leads out. Is the best play to simply call down unimproved regardless of the board?

B) I have 99 against, this time the flop is 853

C) I have AK, the flop is Q96

What is the optimal way to play these hands?

[TStoneMBD]

assuming that the opponent is so aggressive that he will autoreraise postflop with any hand and go to showdown 100%, you should be raising him whenever your pot equity is greater than his.

an easy way to do this is download pokerstove and come up with your own pot equity calculations.

http://www.pokerstove.com/