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Originally Posted by Chicagodude
I think I'm going to be practicing this in the future but try just raising the smaller stuff on the button
I am an advocate of the "only raise or fold" preflop strategy, for the vast majority of players and encourage you to try it. I wont rehash my reasons here again. One thing to remember is that its sometimes more valuable to choose your opponents and position than your cards. Id rather play IP vs a fish with T6s than OOP vs a decent player w AQo, which is why i find myself sometimes raising the button with the former when a fish is the only limper, and find myself sometimes folding the AQo. For that reason I also dont find myself playing a whole lot of SCs from EP unless the table is particularly weak.
Also, I had another thought as far as playing non nut draws. Unless you have direct odds to the draw its not really that exciting to call a bet with a draw. You should put very little implied odds on hitting a non nut draw, bith because you could get outdrawn and get stacked, and also because you cant hit the gas pedal as hard.
For example if you have 65 on a 7h8hXdXd board and villan bets half pot in position, youre really only looking at great implied odds if an offsuit 4 hits. If the 4c hits and he has 88, youre stacking him, if 9h hits, it might go check/check, and maybe he will call a half pot bet.
If you had 9T on a rainbow board your hand has great implied odds, and you can call that bet despite not having direct odds, because you can likely stack his big hands if you hit, amd get some value out of his medium strength hands.
Non nut draw hands are still ok to bet with, although sometimes it puts you in a wonky bluff 3 streets situation where you bet flop and turn with a flush draw and he called down. and now youre thinking he is on the same draw so you gotta ship if you miss and check/call or even c/f if you miss, which destroys your own equity, so try not to fold out everything but his drawing range with non nut draws.