Quote Originally Posted by HalvSame
Quote Originally Posted by johnny_fish
I guess you should bluff & steal a lot against this type of player.
By the impression I get through this thread, I agree. I'll restate one of my questions from earlier in the thread: if we think this guy is capable of dumping AK on an AK5 board, should we even play 55 against him?
This is a very good question. I'm not really sure if he can get off AK here. My hunch is that he practices some pot control and becomes a bit more passive somewhere in this hand. It's also likely he'll flop an overpair if I flop a set, where his hand is less transparent. By Lukie's fuzzy math standards, we have to net an average of $120 in this hand to call preflop, and being in position with this guy's range, I think I can manage that. Probably close though, but I have no idea.

To take your idea one step further, why am I playing 55 at all when I think it's -EV to raise since there are multiple short stacks at the table, but we're questioning whether it is +EV to call a raise from a fellow big stacked player that we have position on and who's range we have defined very narrowly?

One point I can see coming here is that we can often take the pot away from this guy without improving, was that in your mind before the flop came?
No, the exact oppsite actually. I think a lot of the hands he is raising here are big pairs which I have no interest in getting tangled up with unimproved.