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In a local casino, I’m playing $40/$80 limit 3 or 4-handed and sitting in the 9 seat. Next two players comes a man and a woman. They could be a couple, but they are at the very least friends as they are often whispering in each other’s ears between plays. By their play, they clearly aren’t passive or very fishy, nor are they soft playing each other either.

So the woman sits in the 8 seat to my right and the man sits in the 7 seat two to my right. And when it’s my big blind and it’s folded to the button, the guy raises his button, and the woman looks at her cards from SB and 3-bets, and I fold my trash and they play out their hand (no showdown). Ok, no problem there.

But then it happens again. And again. And again. No less than 4 times within say 45 minutes.

So basically I’m feeling squeezed and other than simply racking up and leaving is there any rational and reasonable defense here?

FWIW, the rule in this casino is when it gets short-handed, you cannot change seats.

Garland

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I don't understand the problem. If they are playing any two on your blind, they are throwing you money. To make even more money, decide in your head how much action it will take on your part to make them fold. If you think you know this, you will make even more monies.

As long as they are not colluding (and maybe even if they are, with these preflop ranges), you will make money if you loosen up, play hands that have 30% equity against 2 opponents with wide ranges, try not to fold these big pots postflop, and rake in the $$$. You lose $40 every time you fold, but the first pot you enter has $320 of their dollars in it.