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02-05-2016 , 02:15 AM
To be fair, I didn't count quoted words. Cherry picking stats is my specialty.
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02-05-2016 , 07:25 AM
Fold turn seems the play
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02-06-2016 , 09:41 AM
QJo is plenty strong enough to target and attempt to isolate a weaker >40 VPIPing player from the blinds. It's definitely a mistake not to open this hand in this situation considering that type of player is in the blinds. The button in this hand is also sitting on 80 chips so we are essentially the CO in this spot.

As far an overall strategy one shouldn't always look at the EV of one particular hand in their range but the overall EV of their entire range from this position in this spot. You need some weaker hands in your range to improve the profitability of your overall range. If you just want to nit it up with the top 10% or whatever that's fine but realize in tougher games you're going to be leaving alot of chips on the table. Good players will tag your range as tight and not only will you be leaving chips on the table by not opening with QJo in this spot but you also will not be getting paid off or making as many chips with the stronger parts of your range in this spot. At least Colin's range was reasonably wide and had nice board coverage but really most broadway combos, especially with a weaker player in the blinds, and the antes, are going to be trivial easy opens in these spots as well.
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02-09-2016 , 06:00 AM
It's a leak to tailor your ranges to games that hardly resemble the one you're playing. We don't need to balance our range to get paid off on our best hands in a $1, because we're not going to get exploited. I'm pretty sure that our edge in these games is still being able to play the end game more accurately, even in 2016.
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02-09-2016 , 09:43 AM
I'm not playing these games but it should be even greater chipEV opening QJo from the essential "cutoff" when the average player in this type of game is of a much lower skillset. Especially when you have HuD stats that indicate that one of the players in the blinds is a of that weaker skill set. You are >70bb deep against the remaining relevant players and will more than likely be in position if the hand goes post flop.

While having solid end game fundamentals is a plus and very well could be a good enough strategy to beat these games it doesn't justify passing on reasonably profitable early game spots.

If you are uncomfortable playing deeper stack poker with medium strength hands early on then it's Ok to pass on these type of spots because they are not going to be as profitable for you and may lead to more mistakes on your part. You could instead rely on your late game skill set and maybe beat these games. However, if you want to focus on finding all the ROI and EV that is out there in these SnGs and get better as a player you should focus on improving and optimizing your play at all levels of the SnG.
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02-09-2016 , 06:00 PM
That does seem to be the consensus here.
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