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Originally Posted by svindaloo
a9 is for sure an open otb. I open every ace otb, limper doesn't change anything, and it's better shallower, but it doesn't really matter. Unless you're the worst player ever postflop or the limper only limps aces, it's a 100% open.
It's not an open; with a limper already in the pot, it's an isolation raise.
Button opens are made with the substantial hope of taking down the blinds then and there. Accordingly, there are or ought to be bluffs in our range.
Do not forget that this is a straddle pot, so even without a limper, our raise has to get through three players, not two, so that using our default button opening range is too wide. I would default to my cutoff opening range.
With a limper in the pot, there is yet another player for a steal to get through, and that player has a range that although capped is not random; it has a bottom as well as a top, and is presumably playable.
Our isolation range from the button in a three-blind pot should be dramatically tighter than our opening range from the button in a two-blind pot.
Last edited by AlanBostick; 10-21-2019 at 12:35 PM.
Reason: forgot the straddle