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Players who like to make aggressive plays will always hold problems for their opponents, especially when the blinds escalate. The key problem is that when you feel you have a strong enough hand to take a flop with, there is a fairly strong chance you will not hit the flop particularly well. Then of course your aggressive opponent leads out with a bet, and you feel you have to fold your hand, rather than get caught up in a pot with middle pair or worse.

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The most obvious way to combat this type of play is to wait until you have a strong hand, and then slow play your opponent and allow them to build the pot for you. The problem with this is again, that you do not make such strong hands very often, and if you are shorthanded with large blinds, you cannot wait for excellent hands to come along.
This leaves us with our more risky, but sometimes necessary option, and that is to play them at their own game. If you know your opponent likes to force players out of pots, it might be worth checking on a flop, waiting for the inevitable raise, and then making a strong reraise.

Our aggressive player will think the check was made to lure them in against a strong hand, and often they will fold. You only have to make this type of raise, or reraise when you have nothing, on one occassion I find. If you show the hand afterwards, you can sometimes deter this type of player from getting aggressive against you. Once they know you have the courage to reraise them with nothing simply because you know that they are pushing you around, you should see this type of player give you more room to play quite often.

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