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Message: [QUOTE="Aballinamion, post: 6654005, member: 289533"] Don’t play weak hands out of position. Stop chasing flush and straight draws. Don’t play weak aces or kings. In theory our opening range of UTG is 15%, which is a lot of hands. We need to adjust according to the table profile, how often players ahead will call or 3-bet, having this information we can or cannot open 15% hands from UTG. I like to start building my opening ranges from EP, because they are hard to play and require more care. From EP I continue widening my ranges til I get to BU, where I could open even 50% range, only theoretically. You have to adapt your ranges according to players you are facing. 15% from UTG, 20% from MP, 30% from CO, 40-50% BU, 100% SB and 50-80% BB, this is the ideal ranges for a 6-MAX table, it’s hard to put into practice because players have a little notion about ranges, even the bigger whales will start to exploit you either by calling or 3-betting you, if you open this amount of hands every time. Avoid limping and calling, try to 3-bet more and use hands that have blockers or bluff catching properties, such as AXs (A2s-AKs), KTs+, JT+, and avoid 3-betting medium-low pocket pairs (22-99) for they don’t have blockers and more than 50% of times you will see a flop with overcards (T, J, Q, K and A), turning hard the playability. Your range will be good in the same proportion and reason that you can observe your opponents and deduct inferences out of their gameplay. Many players are just playing the range, not the psychology or the profile of the opponent: e.g: UTG folds, MP folds, Hero in the CO is dealt AsKd and raises first to 3x, BU folds, SB calls, BB folds: Flop: 3c2c9h, SB leads to 3 BB and hero raises to 12 BB. Nothing wrong with this hero move, right? Yes, but what type of player SB is? We know that good players are almost never calling from the SB, and when they do it, they own a capped range, owning hands that they could not fold but also could not 3-bet, such as 22-88, 65s, K8s, etc. Hero is playing his range in spite of the opponent: there only a few combos of two pair, we do not expect SB to be calling with 93, 92, we don’t expect SB to own much 32, but SB had all the 22, 33 even 99, it has K9, Q9, J9, T9, 98, sometimes even A9, and on top of that, SB has all the flush draws of clubs and baby straights and hero has two overcards and a backdoor straight. Why is hero raising the flop? Because hero is just playing ranges, not opponents. A call will do just fine around here, considering Hero have no further information about villain. I used this information because a friend of mine had this simple philosophy: if he raised and got a donks flop, he would raise it ASAP, in spite of opponent or range, because he believed that only fishes use to donkey bet! :ROFLMAO: [/QUOTE]

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