Hi. I have been playing these hypers for a month on a Pokerstars, and I'm having trouble with particular villain types:1. Villain limps almost 100% of hands (very rarely raises pre), always makes a flop or a turn bet (if he checks flop), also calls almost 100% of hands, floats and stabs if I miss a bet. Basically, he is capable of calling down with any pair, and his range is obviously ATC. Now, when I actually get a decent hand I can commit my whole stack to it and win, but by that time he has already drained me with his limping strategy and now I'm at like 700 chips and he has 300. And it goes on and on. By the time I get decent hand again (obviously some mid pair is good), he manages to drain me again, and we find ourselves again at 700/300 situation. Villain also calls jams quite wide, so stealing by shoving a junk is not an option. What to do here?2. Villain is lag aggressive, cbets always, punishes 3bets with jamming, raises cbets, stabs if checked to. Now, this villain is not so annoying if you hit a hand now or then, his aggression kills him then, but when card dead for some time, my chips leak away pretty quick. How do I approach him in that kind of a situation? Widen my jamming range? What would be the magic number of chips when I should totally get out of the line vs this villain?
1) Take advantage of his frequent bets by check raising him when he doesn't likely connect with boards (as you'll see in the next example, this is basically essential to beating guys that bet so often in hypers). As far as his loose calling, it's actually good. Avoid playing him as much as possible if he's really calling you down with most pairs and such, it's likely close to correct strategy and is very hard to pick up an edge on if he's not tilting or doing wacky stuff or doesn't have a massive balance leak (example, calling flop wide, folding turn if he misses, that's a huge leak in these you can exploit, but if he's really calling 2 or 3 bets fairly loose, aside from potential 3 barrel bluffs which aren't really the easiest thing to learn on the fly, there's probably not a ton of edge potential for you). 2) Tighten up a little bit preflop, raising more of a polarized range (very strong, very weak) preflop, particularly if he's not calling every single open raise (if his 3bet frequency isn't THAT high and he calls a lot, then just raise the top x % of hands).You of course want value in these situations, but you need to also attack spots that this player is weak. He stabs when you check? So check raise boards that don't have tons of draws and connectors on them and he'll fold a high %. When he's least likely to have a hand, put the pressure on him and you'll likely see positive results.Don't worry about chip count, it's not a "I still have a stack, waiting for a hand, damn my stack is short, time to go nuts" approach that works, it's just constantly making the decision that leads to the highest expectation. You may very well be correct to bluff this guy when he limps 10bb deep, you check, then check a K92 flop and he stabs. If you always strive to make the best decision possible there's no better way to "protect" a stack than that, since you'll be most likely to win the match.If a guy 3bet shoves really wide short, minraise for value (minraise call hands that have good equity vs a loose range) and open shove hands that do NOT do well against a loose 3bettor. So you're not likely minraising 97o against a guy that 3bet shoves K7o and Q9.