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Originally Posted by AcePlayerDeluxe
It used to be OL guys would "LOL live players" for making such ridiculous pre flop raise sizes.. Black friday came and then they found out why we do that. It turned into "LOL live players actually calling those raise sizes and the hands they are calling with."
I hate to break it to you, but the online guys are still laughing. The reason is because "make giant raises with premiums in EP" as a strategy is fundamentally flawed. It unavoidably suffers from one of the following defects:
1. It exposes your hand strength as a premium unless you also make giant raises with the medium strength hands in your EP raising range.
2. If you make giant raises with medium strength hands, you are giving back the theoretical additional profit you can make by raising big with premiums.
3. If you remove the medium strength hands from your EP raising range, you lose the profits you could have realized from those hands derived from playing them in correctly sized pots.
4. If you remove the medium strength hands from your EP raising range, you have again exposed your hand as a premium.
In other words, if you are raising big with your premiums, you are doing something else wrong that offsets, or nearly offsets, or maybe even more than offsets the additional theoretical profit you make by raising bigger with the premiums.
Some of you will argue that the big raise does not expose your hand strength, that you can vary your bet size with hand strength because of how oblivious your opponents are. In the normal game conditions I play in, this is simply not true even at 1/2. That said, I cannot, obviously, speak to game conditions elsewhere. But it seems to me that the tourists I play against in Vegas are the same sort of players you guys are playing against in your hometown casinos. So you can say, "I can vary my raise sizes with my hand strength without the fish realizing what I am doing," and I will go on not believing it.