Hi all
I've recently been thinking about raising preflop bigger to isolate LIMPERS and prevent players from calling IP against us.
Commonly in the 1/1 games i used to play in, typical raise sizes are 7$ to 10$ and the occasional 15$ or 20$ raise which most players fold to, or play fit or fold postflop.
Due to the fact that in those games that i frequent, raise sizes are usually 7$ but it gets tons of limp callers and button blinds who joins in the gsme making it a family pot, raising to 7$ - 10$ seem to be a higher variance play(correct me if I'm wrong, thanks
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But, to open raise to 15$ or 20$ Everytime we enter a pot seem to be counter productive as well because players will catch that and might just limp call or limp raise knowing that their AA/KK, AK is good against our SC, SG, setminers(well, AA/KK, AK certainly is good against all of our draws^^^), and as well, it gives the players(especially alert regs) more incentive to 3bet bluff us PREFLOP.
Hand | Pot equity | Wins | Ties |
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AA,KK,AK | 47.12% | 13,061 | 0 |
Ts9s | 52.88% | 14,659 | 0 |
For example ^^^
But of course, we shouldnt be putting anyone on any specific holdings but rather, a range.
So, there's no telling that we will have straight/flush draws here instead of just a straight draw, or a flush draw, or maybe even just a GUTSHOT or TP
So, how did you go about countering this issue?
I always bought in for 200$ but because I stopped playing for about 2 years and wanna get back into the game.
Due to my limited bankroll, 500$~, I wanna just start off on 0.5/0.5 games first, which actually shares the samr player pool as 1/1 and some 2/2 games.
I've been contemplating about buying for 100bb instead of 200bb even though the usual raise size feels like a 0.5/1.0 game instead and most players buyin for 100$ or more(1/1, 200$ or more and 2/2, 400$ or more and so on)
Please advice
All advice and suggestions are welcome
Last edited by smokey93; 07-27-2018 at 01:58 AM.