Rrich508

Jae, you are the man who revolutionized Yugioh by making Trapdustshoot a staple card after it being in people’s common boxes for ages right? If so you were my favorite player growing up I read all the stuff you wrote and it helped me get pretty good and now hoping to do the same with poker!

I think one way to play this situation is to buy in right at 100bb and punish his wide pre flop opens and 3 betting by playing a tighter more aggressive 3 and 4 betting preflop game. Playing Lag or sLag is such a great style for playing deep stack cash because great lags make much better decisions on turns and rivers when pots are much bigger. He can turn 68 suited into a very profitable 3 bet spot when stacks are 175bb+ because of his positional advantage and hand reading . Its a lot harder to keep taking preflop equity disadvantages with shallower stacks. Try and figure out what his 3 betting ranges are at this stack depth ( polarized or liner). See how responds to small 4 bets. Basically turn the game into a online cash game, which means getting more money in preflop with a stronger range and shallower stack to pot ratio. Live players have trouble sometimes adjusting preflop ranges because they are so use to better players sitting deep and fishier players sitting shallower.

Of course if you double up/chip and get deep then you will have to change this strategy. There is some solid advice above on how to combat good lags. That said its hard to completely avoid good slags b/c they are in so many spots. There is a decent chance he is putting you in a lot of awkward spots because he knows you are taking a shot. Most people when taking shots pass up marginal +EV spots that they wouldn't in their normal game.

I had a buddy a couple of summers ago played this strategy in the uncapped 10/20 25/50 games that run during the series. He is a good solid mid stakes 6 max reg with no ego, not a world crusher or anything. Kinda on the nitter side for online games. He crushed those games, which could have just been run good to. I argued that he was passing up EV by not covering the fish. He didn't think so at all. He thought there was a lot of value taking advantage of the pre flop edges in those games because everyone else was so deep they just weren't adjusting to him properly. His 2k stack wasn't a concern to everyone else when they were all so deep.

Just a thought...gl