Hi,

I’m curious what others think of these out-of-position strategies. I’m not talking about the occasional occurrence. I’m talking about people that run the same play from the same position, for a large percentage of orbits, for a noticeable (by me at least) period of time.

1. The other day I encountered someone doing something I haven’t seen before. Nearly every time V was in the big blind, heads-up against a button or cut-off open, V would call and then lead out on the flop with a roughly 65-75% bet. It kind of seemed like a counter move to how some players raise and c-bet every button. Again, I mean nearly every time for a number of orbits. This was in the middle stages of an MTT if that matters.

It seems bad, being out of position. Exploitable…but I’m not sure if it is any more exploitable than a constant button open and c-bet.

2. Last night in the final 18 of an MTT there was a very good player that was opening most of his UTG (usually 2xBB) and defending it really well, though this seems less passive and I guess technically he was just continuing in many cases. I also think he was good enough that he was exploiting a table flow that was working for him. I played back at him with my tight image, a 3-bet PF from the cut-off and re-raise post-flop (heads-up and texture seemed right) but I either picked the wrong time (he had it) or he just had more guts than I did (floated a big flop bet) and he owned me that hand.