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Message: [QUOTE="Aballinamion, post: 6897709, member: 289533"] This is a hell of a good question! Let me try to help you. We should never follow preflop charts as if they express the reality of the game. Charts guide us but they are not definitive. And yes, preflop ranges are the core of the game because if we don't have a solid preflop opening range, we are in big trouble. Our preflop ranges will rely essentially on our opponents. For example, some standard charts will put that we must open 15% range from UTG, for a 6-MAX cash table: this is true for some occasions but not true for other occasions. We are going to open 15% range from UTG when we find ourselves on a very soft and easy table. Which means that players ahead to speak will be quiet, allowing us to get a call from the SB or BB. We are opening 15% range from UTG so we do not expect to get many calls from CO or a bunch of 3-bets from the BU, okay? Because of these whole 15% range we cannot continue with all of it when we get a 3-bet of a player IP. Thus there's the rule of thumb: if the table is very, very easy we open 15% range from UTG to try to play versus the guys in the blinds. But if the table is not that easy, let's say a normal table, with opponents ahead that will 3-bet and call our raises from UTG to try to play in position against us, then we would open 8-10% range from UTG. And if the table is very hard, full of calling station and maniacs, we are simply opening 5-8% range from UTG. And we can use UTG to define the ranges of other positions. For example, if we open at max 15% range from UTG, we will open at max 20% range from MP, and so on. Try to play easy tables, with calling stations instead of maniacs. Choose your opponents by finding their weak points and let the chips fall as they may! [/QUOTE]

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