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Originally Posted by daygrindmike
Little is a huge stickler for opening 3x pre. He's argued with his students over it. He disagrees with Matt Berkey's style of opening every raise to $15 no matter what position. I don't believe Sklansky is big on bigger openings either. He is a big believer in having more control over pot size manipulation post flop, which I tend to agree with after reading those chapters.
He's just wrong. I don't think his low stakes live advice is very good in general.
I'm playing in an uncapped 1/2 game where people often call $20+ with suited connecters and worse. I should make it six with AA because there is a small chance someone is actually paying attention to and correctly judging my raise sizes, or to manipulate the flop post, even oop, rather than take a huge edge right off the bat.
Even if they are paying attention...Many people increase their raise sizes with vulnerable hands like tt. So the one time in ten someone pays attention, they might call anyway, hoping to outplay me post.
Obviously he has accomplished a lot in poker, but I just don't think getting the psychology and nuances of live low stakes is among those accomplishments.