If a weaker reg opens MP, along with a weaker reg in the BB, and we are in the HJ/CO, would there be value to having an exploitative flatting range (consisting of hands like QJs, JTs, etc, which the weaker regs wouldn't pick up on initially), or would the three bet or fold strategy of having a range advantage and "kicking out" the small/big blind be better?
Curious of thoughts, especially from some live players
If a fish will call a 3! from the BB with J7s, you should be 3ing a reg's CO open from the BTN with QJs. Keeping fish in the pot pre is more based on no limit theory.
In HSLHE we want to charge the fish the max in every situation, especially b/c a reg will be able to assign a capped range based on our cold call preflop.
Not really. Taking down the bigblind is much better than letting in a semicompetent player with a wider range to hurt your equity.
Coldcalling would make more sense if the original raiser has a so tight range that 3betting doesnt worth it and the bigblind is not likely to fold anyway to a 3bet and you have a hand that plays well multiway.
He is talking about commerce. I think it would have to be a really fun/recreational player in BB to consider flatting and not just a weaker reg. And if that was the case I'd likely do it with a wider range than you are thinking.
Everything in the OP suggests OP has built a functioning flux capacitor and he's dumb enough to think the best use of it is to go play high stakes limit hold'em in 2005.
Yes, it's okay to float sometimes. You give up initiative and you decrease equity by letting other players in. Those are the bad parts. The good parts are that you can slowplay big hands with that style, you can run bluffs on strange boards postflop and you have more implied odds. If you think you know what you're doing well enough, you can get away with a call with virtually any two cards.