How do you respond to getting picked on? 3-bet?

Yesterday I had a short session (less than 100 hands) and a reg sat to my direct left. I have a few hundred hands on him, and I know he frequents many poker forums. His 3-et value is 2.

This session, he 3-bet most of my late position raises (I play very tight, so this was almost all of my raises) and would even raise my c-bets (did this one time).

I ended up raising with ATs in the CO, and he 3-bet me and I flat called. I was wondering if you should just start flat calling 3-bets if you are getting raised a lot, or if you should 4-bet. What do you do?

It may have been better for me to start 4-betting light, because I would be out of position against a better player post flop. In the session, as I said, I flat called with AT, he ended up shoving the turn when an ace peeled off and I called >.< he shows a set of 2s. In the hand, I bet the flop with air. I should have checked and considered calling a bet on the flop, but I don't think betting was correct.

Also, should I just not bother responding to someone taking advantage of me? Should I just leave the table? Advice for a new player, plz!!:trytofly:

If there is not a better seat available somewhere just tighten up even further when you're going to be OOP vs him. Calling 3bet OOP is basically never going to be the correct move.

Well if he is 3betting 22 then 4bet the crap out of him.

OK- so 4bet or nothing then. got it, I'll try it out! Thanks

It's not ideal to be out of position up against such a villain. It can be a pretty tough proposition as you must have figured.

1. Reduce the size of your opening raise. So if you open raise 4xbb, bring it down around 2.5xbb. That way his 3bet size will be smaller.:icon_stud

2. Start 4betting a wider range.

3. Flat his 3bet with a wider range when you are in position.:captain: