$400 NL HE Full Ring: Playing vs a FPS reg

[Alucard]

Game

Hold'em

Game Format

No Limit

Stakes

$2/$4

Table Format

Full (8-10 seats)

Currency

$

This is more of a general strategy on how to adjust to this player rather than a specific hand
Ill mention the most recent hand happened vs him

UTG strdl, we 3b 6bb UTG+1 with KhQh, 1 player at lj calls (a station)
Villain at BTN 4bets to 36BB, our stacks are around 110BB eff
I dnt know what to do at this point than just to fold or shove, I just fold as a general strategy & he shows A3s.
And I have no idea if he calls or folds to a shove there with A3s

His Vpip would be above 60 I guess, He throws in very weird 3b pre & check jams on flop
I have played multiple 3b pots vs him in position where he just check jams to my flop cb, making me lose around 25-30BB each pot.
Some times he just bluff jams Ax pre if there's a lot of dead money
Another 3b hand 3 way, he 2b jam 2nd pair on a fd flop > A62 with 64 on btn v UTG+BB

So in general his plays are quite fancy but at the same time Im struggling playing vs him
So far the one tell I have realized is his 3b sizings pre with a decent hand is usually std while bigger sizing with his steals.

So how to adjust to this player?
I realized I should cb less frequently & range bets wont matter
Apart from that idk what else to do? I guess call lighter when we have a good hand
preflop how to adjust? should I start bluff jaming pre vs his bigger 3bs based on tells?

 

[kdmeteor]

So first off, he 3bet you to 6x, which means you can fold there most of the time without getting exploited. Putting aside whether or not we can also bluff him, you can just fold all non-pair non-Aces, jam 88-JJ, and call with everything better, which will dominate his range.

Then separately, you can consider (semi)-bluffing him. This depends on whether or not he folds his junky Aces to a jam, which you don't know. But actually KQs is a great hand to go for it and find out because you have 43% equity against his Aces, so the risk isn't that high. If you think there's even a 20% chance that he folds, you're good. So that particular hand should have been a jam.

On the Flop, I mean, you just have to put him on a range after he jams. Once you do that, either you're ahead against his range or not, so you make your decision based on that. Start up Equilab right now, put in a Flop & the range you think he jams with, and figure out what to do. The difficult part is just to have the disclipline to actually follow the result when you're there risking 450$.

 

[Aballinamion]

This is more of a general strategy on how to adjust to this player rather than a specific hand
Ill mention the most recent hand happened vs him

UTG strdl, we 3b 6bb UTG+1 with KhQh, 1 player at lj calls (a station)
Villain at BTN 4bets to 36BB, our stacks are around 110BB eff
I dnt know what to do at this point than just to fold or shove, I just fold as a general strategy & he shows A3s.
And I have no idea if he calls or folds to a shove there with A3s

His Vpip would be above 60 I guess, He throws in very weird 3b pre & check jams on flop
I have played multiple 3b pots vs him in position where he just check jams to my flop cb, making me lose around 25-30BB each pot.
Some times he just bluff jams Ax pre if there's a lot of dead money
Another 3b hand 3 way, he 2b jam 2nd pair on a fd flop > A62 with 64 on btn v UTG+BB

So in general his plays are quite fancy but at the same time Im struggling playing vs him
So far the one tell I have realized is his 3b sizings pre with a decent hand is usually std while bigger sizing with his steals.

So how to adjust to this player?
I realized I should cb less frequently & range bets wont matter
Apart from that idk what else to do? I guess call lighter when we have a good hand
preflop how to adjust? should I start bluff jaming pre vs his bigger 3bs based on tells?

Against spewy players I tend to be more tight and passive in order to try to trap it.