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Originally Posted by robert_utk
Hmm, I recall this came up recently, and I wound up changing my full ring RFI sizings as a result.
Fwiw, here is my full ring cash sizings. These are very small adjustments. However, preflop is the street you play the most frequently so these add up quickly. Also, varied sizings can be temporarily confusing to observant opponents.
UTG, UTG+1 RFI 3BB
EP1, EP2 RFI 3.5BB
Hijack RFI 4BB
Cutoff RFI 3.5BB
Button RFI 3BB
That’s really interesting, the hump shape...
I think I might actually have (semi-unconsciously) done this too from EP.
I don’t really follow your logic tbh but my logic for your small raise in EP would be: if you raise big then when you ARE called by people behind you, you have bloated the pot when everyone has positional advantage on all streets, generally not a good idea.
So there’s a trade-off there between (1) raising bigger to reduce the number of opponents behind you versus (2) bloating the pot OOP. Tbh I’m not sure exactly where I am on that trade off.
I like the look of your sizes actually but am not really sure why exactly for the sizes in the earliest positions!
But I definitely agree with you about raising bigger in the HJ than the CO, and bigger in the CO than the button... reason being to try to steal the button and having to bet bigger in the HJ to achieve that than in the CO (because you need to do more to force out 2 players behind you from calling etc)