Adjusting to your opponent.

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During play yesterday (PTY NL100 6-max) I encountered 2 situations that I had a hard time adjusting to. I'm not a very experienced player and play pretty much ABC. How would you counteract these 2 players "trickyness"?

Assume that I'm playing 20/15/2.5 with a slight weak-tight image. partly due to not getting hands and partly due to the fact that i actually am pretty weak-tight...

Situation 1
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Villain is a 23/18 type player a bit on the tricky side. He sits to my left so he always have position on me.
I raise first in with hands that are in the middle/lower end of my range from my current position. Something like KQs from UTG, ATo from CO or such.
Villain probably realises that i have a decently wide range here and has a habit of min-reraising me. everyone folds back to me.
WTF? I really don't like any of my options here.

a) folding seems terrible and really exploitable.
b) calling and playing a 3bet pot OOP without initiative stinks.
c) light 4-betting might be the trick but i'll still be OOP with a marginal hand quite often.
d) tightening up my pf raising range?
e) change tables. (i went for this one in the end. sad but true)


Situation 2
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Villain is a very loose player and also very aggro postflop (70/10/2). I have position on him.

I've played plenty of these before ofcourse and usually come out alive but this guy had a habit of nearly *always* taking the same line. he limps preflop, I iso-raise with a decent range, say top 20%.
heads up to the flop, and he leads with a 1/2 - 2/3 pot size bet.
what actions should I take?

a) play fit-or-fold and try to extract when i hit?
b) bluff-raise frequently, preferably with overs
c) call-down with marginal hands
d) play draws passively or aggresively?

all opinions appreciated, thanks.

[zaephyr]

Situation 1:
I usually tighten up a bit (i am loosier then u as it seems) +
4-bet pf more lightly and c/r certain flops.

Situation 2:
First time player donks into me i raise him with pretty much everything i have, if he calls/folds i note this

[ExaMeter]

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c) he'll fold a lot, hes only 3betting you light, cause you let him do it. he actually laughs at you as hes only minraising you and you (seemingly) fold a lot to these
e) if he calls your 4bets and you really have no clue how to counter him

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b)
c)
d) aggro if b) works good, passive if he pays off easily

all dependend on flop texture as well of course

[ToFarGone]

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As allready said I would tighten up my range and 4bet him more often preflop.

2)

I'd try to extract money from him with my good hands and play my strong draws aggressively. I don't like bluff-raising and building a pot against a 70/10 who will call with almost anything.

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c) ... he actually laughs at you as hes only minraising you and you (seemingly) fold a lot to these

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lol yeah I know and it hurts... [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]
sometimes I feel like I just need to [censored] grow a pair and just check-raise him out of his seat on the flop!!

...but that just feels like tilt-spew so I crawl back in my shell. [censored] me.