Hi,
Last night, I played someone who opened 100% of his buttons really huge - using different opening sizes between 5x and 15x, and he seemed to raise all of my limps and either min3bet or fold to a normal open.
The few times I could see a flop in position after calling one of his huge raises, he let with a huge overbet.
I tried to flat a few times with broadways and suited aces, but missed the flop every single time and he always cbet full pot, so I had to fold.
I also tried to 3bet him twice with strong hands, prepared to call a shove, but he folded. The 3rd time I 3bet him, he came over the top with a min4bet and folded to my shove.
So I was constantly bleeding chips to him, both on the button and oop - the only time I really won anything was that hand where he min4bet/folded.
What's the best strategy to beat a guy like that ?
I decided that as long as he keeps opening > 5x, I'll 3bet/call him with all hands which are 20+ in the nash shoving range, making the 3bet large enough so I can shove any flop if he chooses to flat. And on my button, limp/call about the same range, then shove over his lead if I have any piece of the board (bottom pair, any draw, two overcards on selected boards).
Is that a good approach to beat a guy like that ?
In the end, I lost the match, getting it in with a flush draw and two overs, he called me with king high and held.
I would jam over his open raises with the decent aces, pocket pairs, KQ, etc. then flat call his raises with the speculative hands that suck all-in preflop like JTo and T9s. The dedicating raises preflop then open shoving 100% of flops is even better if he is dumb enough to try to take a flop.
I think that limp/calling then jamming over his lead on the flop is bad because the majority of your value against a player like this is from letting him spew chips with air, and if you jam postflop you are preventing him from doing this.