Playing with call machine on your left

hmm, where to start?

So J987ss is not really money printing hand in first place from MP. But I also had very call happy player on CO.

I dont see ow this justifies the openraise? If you have call happy people behind you, tighten up your preflop range to exploit.

Do we really need to call the squeeze with this top gap rundown? I would still openraise even knowing there are call happy player behind but I fold to squeeze due to lack of nuttiness and probably multiway hand at low spr where I cant really escape. But I also have to admit I dont have learning material when to call vs squeezes, I just looked that up recently.

so how to adjust accordingly: Well, you have to be very patient and aquire reads onyour villains. you notice very quick at first if they are tight or loose. obv you adjust by openraising more or less. now the more tricky part is passive vs agressive, and especially if preflop is same style as postflop.

even with stats you cant be sure: I had a vpip70 guy recently that had almost no PFR and only 15 Agression postflop. He still managed to know when he has absolutely zero SDV and came up with some 60% bluffs 3way with pure air, just because people are checking. I would have never known if I did not saw and noted.

some guys never 3bet preflop, call almost everything but find the best way to win is stabbing 100% vs checks. other LP players simply call a backdoor gutshot just because they have seen you cbetting OTF. others are not only LP but callingstations and call 3 streets with 8 high flopped flush no matter if you pot.

you need to figure out what they are doing. now you dont have to tighten a GTO range that much since that is not exploitable. but as you mentioned i.e. stealing blinds you can tighten up here, reduce cbetting heavily and start valuebetting bigger instead.

if you know they raise your bets only with nuts you can obv bet lighter and dont need to strengthen a checking range. you can also easily let go marginal hands because they just have it.

other than that there is no magi trick: you simply are playing PLO OOP which is the hardest to master and imo one of the most important cases to win

I think that those adjustments apply to almost all poker games.
They certainly apply in draw and stud games.

Last thing I would do versus passive calling station is to tighten up my range.

If there is aggro on the table, THAT would lead me to tighten up. But just versus passive calling station, I would open up my ranges. Classical calling station never outplays you, and you should have really good control for the pot size.

Of course positions matter, and in Ghaleon's example it shouldn't be surprise that the pot is going to be multiway. MP open, CO calls most of the times and that creates the domino effect. From early positions, play your normal ranges, as they should be already good for multiway possibility.

As said earlier, there are different types of call-happy players. Some are aggressive postflop and some are not. Some have an idea with their aggression, some are making "suicide bluffs" (bluffs that have 0 strategy or thought behind them, done in bad spots).

If the opponent is passive postflop, the position doesn't matter as much as it usually does. Hero should have control of the pot, unless passive opponent has hit something and bets/raises.

What goes to J987, it seems to be quite on the threshold. I have two different small stakes sims, one with 3% uncapped rake and one with 3,5% 2,5bb cap. Uncapped doesn't open it, capped opens (actually opens J9 and J8 suited, not the J7s version) and it's virtually break even in the sim.