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Originally Posted by SeeThomasHowl
Tailor your play to specific situations instead of constructing cookie cutter ranges that relieve u of the burden of having to think.
+1 million
Depends on how many people are in the hand first off. If I'm in the BB at a 2/5 NL and there's one raiser to $25, and everyone else clears out, my calling range is pretty narrow. There's not enough money in the pot to justify seeing a flop with anything but premiums. At least that's my strategy.
However, let's say there's a raise to $25 and there's 3 callers ahead of me. I'm in the BB. With $100 already in the pot I'll be playing any pocket pair and pretty much any suited cards unless they're really low. Probably going to fold Ace/anything off unless it's AK. Frankly, I'd rather have 78 suited in that situation than AT off-suit.
Needless to say it also depends on the particular individuals in the hand. But if you want one general rule, I guess it should be to calculate your pot odds first and then go from there.
One last thing...this goes to the point of getting "pot odds" to play trash hands. I was playing 2/5 NL last Saturday, and it was a bunch of limpers to me in the SB. I had 62o. I chose not to put in the extra $3, even though I arguably had "pot odds." Someone else at the table remarked, "Really? I would have called that with six-deuce." At the end of the hand, I had to tell him that that was
exactly what I threw away
So whoever brought up the point that the extra $1 or $2 thrown away here and there from the SB adds up, I agree.