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Old 11-11-2007, 07:45 PM
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Default How to respond to a frequent re-stealer

I'm playing 100NL and I raise a lot as a steal (30%-35%). However, one of my regular opponents is reraising me a lot either from his BTN when I raise from CO but also from his blinds when I raise from CO or BTN - so he does both in position and out of position. My first reaction was to steal less often against him but that didn't stop him since he is probably using PT and he won't see my change in strategy at first (takes many hundred hands for it to display on the stats if he uses the whole history). After thinking about it I feel I have to re-pop his re-steals (often I raise to 3BB he reraise to 11BB) perhaps making it 30-35BB, but then I pretty much commit myself and many times I would really just be hoping for a lay-down.

Has anyone any good experience with this? If I want to re-pop after his re-steal what should my initial raising standards be from CO when he is BT and what should they be from CO/BT when he is in the blinds?

By the way we always both has at least 100BB and he plays aggressively after flop making pot-sized CBs. So when I just call his 11BB raise preflop, I have a commitment decision on the flop - which means I have to hit/connect good or fold.

Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
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