How bad is villains play to 5x every hand if hero doesn’t adapt? I’ve faced villains doing this and the time I decide to play back Im dominated.

[A3, BB, facing 5x] I’ve lost so much money from these spots, by showing so now I just fold A- rags to raise sizes bigger then 2x, even if we are 12bb deep. I don’t know if it variance or not, but Im way behind in these spots with A-rags. Any comments / calculations on that?

[J7s we limp and face a raise] I get your resoning for rasing, but lets say we have been really aggro, what range would you call a raise to 60 with? How much would it differ if villain made it 80? And why would you limp Q2 since his hole range has like 45% against us, isn’t it better to open it?

[K9, BB, facing a 6x] Isn’t it to light to shove it? Whats your borderline for shoving, JT+? Would you flat with TT+?

11.10 [QT ,BB] Why would you get it in vs a 5x/6x when you’ve seen him do it with QJ/A8?

21.00 [A8 facing 3B] Can you fold here based on player tendencies? Often when a maniac suddenly doesn’t push and just make a 3B a lot of bells are ringing for me.

Well, it depends on villain's 5x frequency I suppose, but I don't think you need to be too loose or aggressive to make a wide 5x opener's play fairly wasteful compared to a smaller raise size of 2-3x.

A3 facing 5x, again, it can be a common leak to attack these 5x opens too wide, but it's all about the specific situation.  Don't make a "I'll always fold" rule in this situation, it'll only blind you for the few times it might be clearly correct to shove instead of fold (just a general example).

J7s depends on stacks and the opponent, generally though hands like J7s or 87 are going to be much better to limp call compared to stuff like Q3o.  Q2o open raising depends on fold equity, if there isn't a lot of fold equity it's not an awesome hand to raise because you're just making a bigger pot with a hand that is dominated.  It doesn't mean raising can't be better than limping, but against a loose passive player, limping can often be a better play I believe.

K9 - I could only find the hand where we minraise called 20bb vs villain's shove with his K9 hand.  I'm not sure which hand this one is referencing, but very unlikely I would call with TT-JJ/QQ, KK and AA are very dependent on opening ranges (the looser, wider and more likely they are to fold to a reraise the more likely it is I would flat, also the shorter stacked/more committed our opponent is with his preflop raise the more likely I would be to flat, if we're deep, even vs a looser 6x opener, I would likely 3bet AA or KK, even if it's a smaller 3bet size).  Loose 6x open raisers are probably on average loose 3bet callers too, that would follow a generally true playerbase pattern.

QT - Looking back it looks like he was opening 5 and 6x the sb very wide, and at 20-25bbs, you don't need a ton of fold equity to make this a good play.

Do a 3bet calculation on various ranges, add in some fold equity and try to simulate the situation, I think you'll find that QT is often a shove if you suspect you have even a bit of fold equity against a wide open 5-6x player this short.

A8 - I'm very careful in these situations because I would call if they had shoved.  While I do see what you're saying, some players do what you say, other players 3bet small for a cheap fold (and fast play the stronger Ax hands).  If you have good reads, this is a spot to make kind of a "hero fold" preflop, but if you'd call a shove you really need more than a hunch to fold to a smaller 3bet in my mind.

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