Studying RFI ranges

Matt_Burns88

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Does anyone have any suggestions for how to study ranges? I have recently done a database review and by far my biggest leak is that I'm simply too tight from every position. Some are very clear and obvious fixes that are easy to remember, but I'm also finding that I'm muddling a lot of positions, or stack sizes and find myself making almost as many mistakes as I was before.
 
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Hello Matt_Burns88! :D

Here some suggestions:
- Start by studying basic preflop ranges -> Its is important to understand wich hands are profitable to play in different positios and situations. You can try some software to help you out, like Flopzilla, Equilab. Or you can just search for books, tutorials, Youtube videos, Cardschat course could be helpfull too.
- Review hands histories -> Having a tracking software to review your hand histories and analyze your decision-making procces is very important. As soon you feel you did a mistake try to learn from it.
- Practice range balancing -> Its importante to have a balanced range of hands, meaning that you have a mix of strong and weak hands in your range. This will make it more difficult for your opponents to read you.
- Seek feedback from others players -> This is where Cardschat can help you. On "Learning Session" you can post your hands soo we can comment on it. Having an outside perspective can help you identify blind spots or areas where you may be making mistakes.
- Continuously review and update your ranges -> If the board is different, sometimes you gotta play different. Dont stay at the range of hands always.

Anything i'm here.
Good lucky on your tables!
 
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Great subjection above. One thing i would add, do one range at a time. Become the masted at that one then moves to the next one. Dont expect perfection by the way. Even professional will admit they get them wrong at time on the border line hands.
 
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I think this chart is a good resource to have handy when playing online:


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It might help to try and remember the perimeter of the button range on a certain stack size and then remember it gets tighter and tighter the more you move towards utg.
 
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