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Nutcracker69
Visionary
Silver Level
For at least a few years now, most pros have moved away from the standard 3x (sometimes 4x) BB open to most commonly 2x and sometimes a weird variant like 2.2x BB.
Feel free to voice your opinion on THAT strategy but let me say I think it is stupid and borderline reckless. I was hoping to get into a game like that to completely abuse it. The casino I played at was only cash for me so this didn't occur. 10xbb was more common than a min bet.
So for some reason, I thought playing online (at all levels) I would come across this and waited to exploit it. But it didn't happen. Everyone seems to still be in the 3-4xBB opening range. Why is that?
As an aside, I am seriously re-tooling my game, and yesterday when I made my awesome run I actually did implement some smaller opens (less than 3x but rarely as low as 2x) later in the tourney. Mostly because of how huge a lead I had, and how little people wanted to tangle with me, it seemed like at least 9/10 that GII would be stacked. So no matter my position, but especially if I were first to open, going with 1050 on 200/400 seemed to often enough TID and regularly thin the field. I liked it because I risked less to earn more, and increased my fold likelihood if met with a large overbet that seemed to crush me. But I kept them guessing and would size from 2x (very rarely) up to 6x depending on what I felt was optimal for any given situation.
Feel free to voice your opinion on THAT strategy but let me say I think it is stupid and borderline reckless. I was hoping to get into a game like that to completely abuse it. The casino I played at was only cash for me so this didn't occur. 10xbb was more common than a min bet.
So for some reason, I thought playing online (at all levels) I would come across this and waited to exploit it. But it didn't happen. Everyone seems to still be in the 3-4xBB opening range. Why is that?
As an aside, I am seriously re-tooling my game, and yesterday when I made my awesome run I actually did implement some smaller opens (less than 3x but rarely as low as 2x) later in the tourney. Mostly because of how huge a lead I had, and how little people wanted to tangle with me, it seemed like at least 9/10 that GII would be stacked. So no matter my position, but especially if I were first to open, going with 1050 on 200/400 seemed to often enough TID and regularly thin the field. I liked it because I risked less to earn more, and increased my fold likelihood if met with a large overbet that seemed to crush me. But I kept them guessing and would size from 2x (very rarely) up to 6x depending on what I felt was optimal for any given situation.