Adding open-shoves and min-raises to my game.

Hello People, just wanted your general thoughts on this.

I play full handed microstakes and wanted to add these moves to my general "average situation" strategy.

I know that throwing all of your money in is a high variance move and raising the minimum will sacrifice value from good hands and could be askng to get out drawn but is there a place for these in a good player's repertoir?

I do see these moves quite a bit at the levels I play and not just from the complete idiots. I am guessing that if I balanced the hands I make these plays with well and do them often enough I could get people to call my all-in shoves when I have aces and kings?

I feel there is more milage in the open-shove. What ranges would you suggest and what frequencies... whenever a pair uses the standard red and black suits ( I use a 4 color deck) would be one out of eight... I think?!

What do you guys think. Should I run some hands through poker stove and see?

Also, if I am first in to act and shove it all in, am I more or less likely to be called by a better hand the closer I am to the button?

Frank.

Abandon this idea now. It is completely pointless.

lol


...oh

Well I do see your point. I just assumed that because so many do it... :P

Perhaps I shove channel my efforts in to a strategy for dealing with these annoyances!

Most people don't win at poker . Definitely focus on other fundamental areas.

The minraise is completely pointless, however from my experience at the LOWEST stakes (1c/2c) an open shove might be profitable against some opponents but it's a feel-dependent move. In general you should instead of shoving raise bigger amounts (5x bb for example) and put in massive reraises when you have it.