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Can anyone give me an idea on a decent card range? I'm a tight aggressive player and find it a task to loosen up with my cards. My natural game is not to gamble with suited connecters or small pair but I do realise I need to widen my starting requirements once my stack falls into the 10-17 M' zone (yellow zone) aka Dan Harrington on no limit tournaments.
Any help will be great.
 
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be more specific.
1. HU/6-max/FUll Ring?
2. SNG/MTT/Cash
3. speed zoom/hypers/15min per level

exmp1. : ~15-20% of hands in cash 6-max is good, i hu sng this is nowhere near good.
 
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Poker isn't based only on cards but also on position. Usually you're making decicion according to decision of your predecessors and in some tough spots you could be forced to fold hand like JJ or AQs ;)
 
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be more specific.
1. HU/6-max/FUll Ring?
2. SNG/MTT/Cash
3. speed zoom/hypers/15min per level

exmp1. : ~15-20% of hands in cash 6-max is good, i hu sng this is nowhere near good.

MMT full table of 10. 25 min blinds..
 
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What I learn so far that there are many factors for your range, type of game, position, number of BB, pot size, what other players did, how other players play. So chart can give you basic guidance but you need to adjust it dynamically
 
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this is the most popular i the past format (slow MTTs) so it's studied alot.
most of the rules still apply:
- first 3 posstions: are basically dead unless you ~3% hands(AQo+,JJ+)
- MP's: are a bit wider you can add strong mid pairs(~99+) and strong off/suited A (~T+)
- late possition: mid pars ~66+ good suited A, and connectors (78+).
- SB/BB defence will be wider Most brodways with some sort of connection will do (~K9o)
- anyway hands will depend on action before you. It's smarter to exploit than GTO your ops.
- here is a chart if you want visual

in generall eeryoe knows to bet and 3 bet AA, I would suggest playing around in Equilab or some other sort of calclator to figureout how T9s plays out agais strong pairs on suited flop.
 
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Can anyone give me an idea on a decent card range? I'm a tight aggressive player and find it a task to loosen up with my cards. My natural game is not to gamble with suited connecters or small pair but I do realise I need to widen my starting requirements once my stack falls into the 10-17 M' zone (yellow zone) aka Dan Harrington on no limit tournaments.
Any help will be great.



there are 1326 hand, any hand can be the best in what that particular batch!Now think! who is winning poker hand? People with the best! What I mean is that you need the right-hand drawing! Hands are different! Hand with a lot of equity but not sustainable! Hand with a small but steady equity! But all-rounder Immersed value! Therefore, the choice to play a particular hand is everyone's business because who knows how Topically his hand has a great range!
If you have a hand drawing of the problem! So I advise you to play only about 36 combo for the beginning (DD +, AK) other hands try to just simply do not play until you have the experience! Well, over time you can increase them (JJ +, AQ, AK) Well, the farther away the more ... all in order to avoid big losses and disappointments! Truth will need patience!
 
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this is the most popular i the past format (slow MTTs) so it's studied alot.
most of the rules still apply:
- first 3 posstions: are basically dead unless you ~3% hands(AQo+,JJ+)
- MP's: are a bit wider you can add strong mid pairs(~99+) and strong off/suited A (~T+)
- late possition: mid pars ~66+ good suited A, and connectors (78+).
- SB/BB defence will be wider Most brodways with some sort of connection will do (~K9o)
- anyway hands will depend on action before you. It's smarter to exploit than GTO your ops.
- here is a chart if you want visual

in generall eeryoe knows to bet and 3 bet AA, I would suggest playing around in Equilab or some other sort of calclator to figureout how T9s plays out agais strong pairs on suited flop.

I diverge a lot here. Two things:

It depends on the field and stage of the tournament.

Early in the tournament, I wouldn't raise with AQ in the first three positions if the field is comprised by loose callers. odds are: you're playing a had with tons of reverse implied odds probably out of position against multiple opponents. Odds are: you are not going to be able to make value bets a ton. If you're not value betting, than you should rarely be betting at all early in a tournament with loose callers.

Also, raising with suited connectors in late position is bad early. People defend the BB wide with weak hands that has you beat pre flop and unless you crush the flop with a strong draw, you'll be more often than not semi-bluffing on a weak/medium draw or two pair hands that are likely to play bigger pots than you want.

I'd also not be defending this wide in early MTTs, against a loose field. You're not going to be able to make value bets and will be forced to play very passively. Against microstakes MTT field, you want to be aggressive when you play the hands and in position. Defending big blind wide is a major leak.

Blinds play to me on microstakes is always a matter of 3-betting hard and win pre flop, or fold. My flat calling range in microstakes mtts are AT-AQ, KT-KQ, Pocket pairs, QJ, JT, T9s, 98s, when I know I'll play heads up flop, and these types of K8, Q9, Ax hands I'm 3-betting strong for bluff because they don't play well post flop and I can generate tons of folds against HJ/CO/BU range, because microstakes fear huge 3-bets (around 75 % of the pot raise) on TT+, AQ+.
 
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...It depends on the field and stage of the tournament...
true, but this is truу to any poker fromat/game =)

...you are not going to be able to make value bets a ton...
most play fit or fold on the flop. anything that is better than AJo+ is usually massevly 4beted or shoved. not over-playing weak-mid Ax is good, but too tight is also wrong your just basicaly waiting for ~34 hands. you can get value out of any A but the ones that have your range(AT+... some times even A8) beat are ussually the ones that are shoved 4 beted.

...Also, raising with suited connectors in late position is bad early. People defend the BB wide with weak hands that has you beat pre...
this is why you should do it. people will call you with filth for 3 bb (out of 100) with K high and if they catch it most likely they will pull it it for 3 streets. Early stages are the best time to get some easy $. your weak hads get massive value. if they are re-raise/shoved you know to fold them. Obvsly you should not play 80% of hands but connectors(suited and depending on SB/BB exen not suited could be EV+)As I said It's smarter to exploit than GTO your ops.

..Defending big blind wide is a major leak...
but giving up blinds to easy is a much more bigger leak, I dont think that the chart is to wide. You disagree? I'm not proposing 37o =) in addition calling preflop with K8 on BB ad folding on the flop is easier than stealing on BU/CO(what I said above)

Blinds...on TT+, AQ+.
this is basically cooler-inducer =) yes, if you slowroll you TT+ you will get your ops stack here and there, you will also give him to much free cards. Yes your AQ will beat AJ, but it will do it no matter what =) but this being said you will rip the hairs on your legs in tilt wen your slowtolled AK that caught A on the flop will be beat buy runner 2 pair on the river

again the hands that you are talking about are not that different from the chart. I think that whe you read my "open/defend wide" you think of HU SNG 5bb stack kind of wide =)
 
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I think they should not only map the position to consider... But also a sense of need


 
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