I didn't know you did exercise's like this, I love this idea,
Vs Maniac
In this spot we have a perfect bluff catching hand, the maniacs range looks something like this, JX, TX, 5X, 22-JJ, although I think 88-JJ would 3bet, most of the time at least, I think reraise/shoving is too weak, it gets all the air to fold and all the hands that beat us to call, I would call flop, and go from there.
Vs CS
This is a clear fold, CS postflop 2betting range is usually 2 pair +, we are crushed vs that range.
Further discussion:
• How often will you face each of the different player types at the tables?
• Do you color-code the different player types in order to recognize them more quickly? If you do: What does your system look like exactly?
• What player type will make you the most money? Why? What mistakes does he make and how can you exploit them?
The CS, is much more common at micro stakes, the maniac, doesn't appear to be as common as the CS, this could be due to my lack of ability to spot them.
I colour code CS light green, the mistakes they make, are:
Cold calling weak hands,
Min 3betting monsters,
Calling multiple barrels with weak/trash,
Calling to much on draws,
They hopelessly bluff missed draws on blank rivers,
That's all I can think off,
To exploit them, we can bet flop, turn and river with weaker hands for value, TPGK type hands, and medium strength hands, we can bluff induce on the river, and set mine super profitably when they 3bet.
I colour code maniac's purple, and there mistakes are:
They cold call with very weak hands,
They multi barrel bluff
They 2bet bluff weak/trash
They are crazy I cant think of anything else, apart from 1 thing, although I don't believe its a weakness, vs a tag, witch is why tag players get so mad with them, they 3bet so wide,
The correct strategy vs them is, first and most important, preflop adjustment, we are going to get 3bet almost every time, 4bet bluffs are hopeless, so even thinking about, raising blocker hands to 4bet bluff is plain stupid, so we need to tighten our range up to something like 88+ AQ+, these hands we can call 3bets, with the bluff catchers 88-TT maybe JJ depends how he reacts to 4bets, if he folds to 4bets to often, I will cold call his 3bets with all my big pairs, next is 4bet shoving, I believe its best to use unpaired hands for this, if we 4bet without shoving, he calls we miss, then what? check fold after committing half our stack? no thanks!
When he cold calls our raise, we can play check fold when we miss, and bluff inducing tactics when we hit.
