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I'm a Taurus
Silver Level
I remember a while ago a couple people made comments about getting a discussion going about this so here we go.
Not sure where to start, maybe we could start with the benefits of raising 100% from the button vs. not?
HU I like to open to 3xbb when 150 or less bb deep. So from the button you are risking 2.5bb to win 1.5bb meaning that if they fold greater than 63% of the time it shows an instant profit. Despite that, a standard 3/5th - 2/3rd size C-bet also only has to succeed about 40% of the time to be profitable. Between these two actions, you could easily never make an action past the flop and be a pretty large winner HU against most opponents.
Now other than the instant profitability of this move, the fact is that pretty much every opponent is going to adjust to this pretty poorly. The most common response I see is they start to call way too much, some even going as far as to call 100% of the raises. Anyone with half a brain knows this is pretty much the worst option imaginable. Anytime you can force them to play OOP with a sub-par range, it's easy money. Using this strategy, you force your opponent to adjust from the start of the match. If they can't adjust properly, the match is pretty much over from the start as they are just going to be bleeding money constantly.
Obviously using a strategy like this is going to put you in a lot of tricky post flop situations. So one downside to this is you need to be a pretty strong post flop player to use it effectively.
Another downside is that while most opponents may not notice exactly how tight or loose you are playing, pretty much everyone IS going to notice if you start raising every button. So you are announcing what you're doing and if someone knows how to, you give them the opportunity to adjust to you. I havn't found this to be too much of a problem, but I never face an opponent I would classify as "good". I'm sure as I move up in limits, this is eventually going to become somewhat of an issue.
That's all I got for now. Discussion started.
Not sure where to start, maybe we could start with the benefits of raising 100% from the button vs. not?
HU I like to open to 3xbb when 150 or less bb deep. So from the button you are risking 2.5bb to win 1.5bb meaning that if they fold greater than 63% of the time it shows an instant profit. Despite that, a standard 3/5th - 2/3rd size C-bet also only has to succeed about 40% of the time to be profitable. Between these two actions, you could easily never make an action past the flop and be a pretty large winner HU against most opponents.
Now other than the instant profitability of this move, the fact is that pretty much every opponent is going to adjust to this pretty poorly. The most common response I see is they start to call way too much, some even going as far as to call 100% of the raises. Anyone with half a brain knows this is pretty much the worst option imaginable. Anytime you can force them to play OOP with a sub-par range, it's easy money. Using this strategy, you force your opponent to adjust from the start of the match. If they can't adjust properly, the match is pretty much over from the start as they are just going to be bleeding money constantly.
Obviously using a strategy like this is going to put you in a lot of tricky post flop situations. So one downside to this is you need to be a pretty strong post flop player to use it effectively.
Another downside is that while most opponents may not notice exactly how tight or loose you are playing, pretty much everyone IS going to notice if you start raising every button. So you are announcing what you're doing and if someone knows how to, you give them the opportunity to adjust to you. I havn't found this to be too much of a problem, but I never face an opponent I would classify as "good". I'm sure as I move up in limits, this is eventually going to become somewhat of an issue.
That's all I got for now. Discussion started.