LP range in the 5NL micros - full ring cash games

rowhousepd

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In the last few thousand hands I've been getting crushed in late position, and I'm not sure if it's the way I'm playing post-flop, if it's variance, or it's my opening range. (Btw, I play full ring, 9 max, 5NL cash games at Full Tilt.) Here are my combined starts for CO & BTN....
  • VPIP: 28
  • PFR: 16
  • 3Bet: 4.9
  • 4Bet: 1.9
  • Att to Steal: 31
  • Fold Steal to Blind Reraise: 38
More or less, my range is roughly as follows in LP....
  • Raise Limpers & 3bet: AA-TT, AKs-AJs, AKo, KQs
  • Raise First In: same as above + 99-22, any Broadway, AXs/o, KXs, K9o, Q9s
  • Call Raise w/ no other callers: 99-66, most Broadway, A9s-A8s, K9s, Q9s
  • Call Raise with other callers: same as w/ no callers + KTo-JTo, A7s-A2s, any suited connectors, occasionally suited 1-gaps
  • Open Limp: never
  • also, LP first in raises are usually ~4bb+1 per limper.
Again, this is a little rough, but you get the idea. Any suggestions? Am I too loose? too tight? too agro stealing? Help! Thanks.
 
thepokerkid123

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Play tighter in CO and looser on the BTN, your ranges shouldn't even be similar between the two.

If you're losing money in LP there's a very good chance you're leaking badly post-flop, at 5nl this probably means folding a lot more easily post-flop.

Open raise SCers as well. On the BTN it's a pretty decent rule of thumb to raise any suited K or Q as well.

Also make sure your CO range changes a lot depending on how tight the guy on your left is, it should change a lot (generally you should have a tight player there but degrees of tightness and their willingness to fold post-flop make a difference).

Call a raise (don't 3bet) with TT-JJ, pretty much always from LP, I'd add in 99 too. 3betting folds out a lot of weaker hands that will give you value and doesn't get rid of anything that beats you. Same thing with AK and KQ, there's a lot of value in taking good top pair hands post flop against fish, in position.

Fold KTo and other crappy/dominated broadway hands to raises from all but the most spewy of opponents.
Same thing with SCers. You have almost no fold equity in multiway pots and you're basically never going to make a hand to value bet, just fold pre-flop.

too agro stealing?
I think it's a major leak to steal any less than you do.
 
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