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Message: [QUOTE="F Paulsson, post: 1049026, member: 6979"] I'm not Chuck, but... If someone's limp-call% is 50% [B]or lower[/B] it's trivially easy to raise with any two (from the button, sb or BB), because while you're often risking 4BB to win 1, there's dead money in there too - the blinds - and one more aspect working in your favour: Someone whose limp/call is relatively small is someone who doesn't psychologically marry hands. Some people hate folding in the BB because they're giving up "their" money. Someone who can limp, and then fold to a raise often, doesn't exhibit this behavior. Therefore, you can be fairly confident that even though you're immediately only winning 2.5BB while risking 4, you're going to take away the pot on the flop very often. Fold-to-c-bet% is of course interesting here as well, but isolating limpers who fold to raises often is highly profitable. If someone has a 100% limp-call, I don't iso-raise unless it's for value. "For value" is full of grayscale, and depends largely on how awful my opponent is postflop. I can isolate T8o for value on the button if my opponent plays his hands face-up and loosely postflop. One other comment re: combatting 3-bets. Chuck is spot on with folding being the most common weapon, even - and I can't stress this enough - [B]even if he's 3-betting very light[/B]. Even versus someone who 3-bets 15% on the button, you can't start calling with stuff like 87s out of position. It's not profitable. You can 4-bet bluff him, but be warned that light 3-bettors are often somewhat more likely than others to 5b-rebluff. To combat someone who 3bets you light, your absolutely best bet is simply to tighten up. Open fewer hands, and he'll hang himself because the % of hands you fold to a 3-bet is going to drop dramatically. If I have three nits on my left, my CO opening range looks something like: A2s+, A7o+, KTo+, K7s+, Q9s+, QTo+, J9o+, T9o+, 22+. If I have a very active 3bettor on my left, I'm tightening that up to: A9s+, AJo+, KJo+, K9s+, QTs+, QJo+, JTo+, 22+. ... or conversely, I'm opening about 16% of my hands instead of 26%. Versus a very active 3-bettor, I'm happy to get it in with 99+ and AK, or about 4% of my hands, and I don't really need to add bluffs to exploit his light 3betting; tightening my opening range is enough. To be immediately profitable, he needs me to fold about 70% of the time that he 3-bets me, but if 25% of the hands he 3-bet are hands I'm willing to play for stacks, and we throw in a few extra hands that I bluff or am willing to see a flop with OOP (AQs, KQs and 77/88 spring to mind) then he's being exploited. But, and this is perhaps the biggest wisdom in this particular post: He's doing something that's generally speaking profitable. He has position on us, and will force us to play differently in order to deal with him. It's not a great spot for us, and we should generally be less-than-thrilled about our table selection if we run into this kind of problem. I'll need to have a pretty big fish directly on my right if I'm going to be willing to put up with someone 3-betting me often on my left. [/QUOTE]

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