For me, you should not do that. I believe raising with different sized bet will give you a chance to steal the blinds pre-flop or take the pot post-flop with aggressive play even if your hand misses. You need to vary your play style a bit so other players don't catch on.
You can't, he doesn't know what he's talking about.Just curious, but what would others catch onto exactly? If I bet 3x bb pre EVERY time then how can I give anything away if im doing this with all of my range?
I tend to have the same bet size pre flop regardless of hand strength or position. The main reason is to stop people establishing a hand range. Does anybody have any theories on this ?
That seems like it could be very profitable if you know how to do it, but it could easily blow up in your face if you're facing low-level players who can't read you properly (especially lagtard maniacs who will 3-bet anything). For the time being, I'm not confident enough in my play to risk it.Note the self imposed ^^^^ Contrarian description.
By using the same raise all the time, yeah, you avoid giving tells, but you lose the power to influence what your villains think. IMHO, making my villains think what I hope to, I gain more power than by preventing him from reading me. I want him to read me, and I want to control what it is he thinks he is reading.
I vary my raises.
Don't throw it away. Minstack baby, minstack. Then you don't have to give a toss about the risk because the odds say you're getting it back.Yes those maniacs are very annoying, they will go all in with a very weak starting hand, which most of the time makes you throw your stronger hand away.
I would say it's better to do it the other way around. In EP you're playing a guessing game and controlling the hand will be very difficult, so you should always 1) play with a very strong hand (I never play anything that isn't premium broadway UTG), and 2) represent it. You want the odds in your favor, you wanna strongly come off as the aggressor, and you want as many people to fold as possible, as bullying a multi-way pot is nearly impossible. Closer to the button your range is wider, and you have more control postflop, so you don't really need to be the bully pre. You can try and buy the blinds for cheap (minraise or whatever), but if you can't it's no big loss.One of the cardinal sins of NLHE is to vary the size of your preflop raises based on the strength of your hand. Don't do that. Period.
It's fine to vary based on position. For example, 2.5 BB from early, 3 x BB from mid, 3.5 BB from late. Personally, I usually go 2.5 from early-mid; and 3 x mid to late.
I myself like to change it up.Lets say you already had a player in mid position bet 3xbb preflop,another player in cut off position also calls 3xbb preflop.Are you just gonna 3x bb preflop call with your pocket K's from the button?I think that would be a bad move because the other players could be holding A/K suited or pocket 10's.That would give them a chance to see the flop and a possible chance of improving their hand to beat yours.Then the very next hand you could even have pocket A,s in cut off position everyone before you on the table, has previously just called.You 3xbb bet. The button calls just because he's got position with 10/j suited.
BB calls pocket 7's Mid calls with K/Q suited. The flop comes Q,K.7.Something like that might not flop but it could then I think the A's are an under dog.When they could of been pushed 10x bb or all in preflop and then everyone would of folded or you could of @ least might of got it down to a heads up showdown instead of a 3 or 4 way showdown.