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CaptainKout
Rock Star
Silver Level
So preflop raising/opening is something I think about a lot. At one point I experimented with a terribly detrimental raises sizes, smaller in early big in later, but I've converted to the norm now(got eaten alive for bringing it up, lol). So I'm typically raising 5bb from utg then down to 3bb from the btn. I'm considering shrinking all of my preflop raises. something like 2.25 on the btn, 2.75 in co, and 3 utg+1 and 3.5 in early position. (these are convinient raise sizes on cake software)
This will make my steal attempts cheaper, but might have the effect of getting three-bet more often from the blinds while also making it cheaper to call threebets in position. It could also have the beneficial effect of getting fish in just about every pot but I'm not sure thats what I want since I have a ton of work to do on my post flop game, some fish don't have any fold equity, and their ranges will be huge. It might also loosen up some of the tighter players which will allow me to see more flops with them in position. I understand that with the strong hands, I want to raise as big as possible to realize value when they will call with worse but with the exception of callingstation type fish a lot of regs are playing weak-tight and this might be exploitative of their style.
Another consideration is that rake comes out when theres a flop so maybe taking the blinds is better than seeing so many flops(probably close to negligible).
Is it worth a try? Anyone else experiment with smaller-than-standard preflop raises? If I do this should I be more/less aggressive post flop and why? And do you guys have anything to say about turn c-bets(experiment in progress)?
This will make my steal attempts cheaper, but might have the effect of getting three-bet more often from the blinds while also making it cheaper to call threebets in position. It could also have the beneficial effect of getting fish in just about every pot but I'm not sure thats what I want since I have a ton of work to do on my post flop game, some fish don't have any fold equity, and their ranges will be huge. It might also loosen up some of the tighter players which will allow me to see more flops with them in position. I understand that with the strong hands, I want to raise as big as possible to realize value when they will call with worse but with the exception of callingstation type fish a lot of regs are playing weak-tight and this might be exploitative of their style.
Another consideration is that rake comes out when theres a flop so maybe taking the blinds is better than seeing so many flops(probably close to negligible).
Is it worth a try? Anyone else experiment with smaller-than-standard preflop raises? If I do this should I be more/less aggressive post flop and why? And do you guys have anything to say about turn c-bets(experiment in progress)?