How to Kill Nitty McNitterson

[Peoples Elbow]

As the donks have been leaving and are being scared off by thinking that our favorite pastime is illegal, we've all seen the tables getting more and more nitty. It's getting tougher as just about everyone at the table now seems to have a good grasp of the game, and it's not uncommon now even at 50NL to see all 5 opponents with 20/15/3 stats.

I'm just curious what people think is the optimal strategy against the nits? You can watch a CR video and pick up how a lot of them play - good smart positional poker.

I've found the following seems to work best, but am curious what other anti-nits are finding successful:

- Loose calls in position
- 4-betting them preflop when they 3-bet you
- Lots of 2 barrel bluffs on them
- Calling down light
- Stop and go's (not with full stack but pot-sized bet when OOP)

I know a lot of these things are situational, but you can definitely generalize the play of a 20/15 nit. And if the nits are now so numerous they're dominating the tables, optimal strategy would be to differently than them and use their play against them.

Any other anti-nits out there?