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Originally Posted by Green Nugz
...About a month ago this would be a standard flat for me, but i'm trying to play more LAG/less passive and this just looked like a good spot. Guess i need to reconsider my play for these situations
This kind of thinking will due you in.
A few have mentioned that you should be targeting the mark as opposed to 3b'ing the reg, and I 110% agree. That said, I don't mind mixing it up once in a while, but I usually like to have a few good reasons for what I'm doing and for making plays that aren't optimal, and I don't think that such a generalization like the one you stated above is a really good reason to do anything.
Instead of taking an approach that is focused on changing your game for the sake of changing your game, perhaps you'd find it better to focus more on the game at hand. How are your opponents' playing? How is the table playing? Who are the targets? And, what do you need to do to exploit them? Then, build your
gameplan and, base it around a strategy that exploits the weaknesses of your opponents and defends against their strengths.
Your "style," so to speak, should really be a result of
their styles, and it really should be quite fluid given the myriad of different situations you might encounter. It doesn't make sense to be so rigid in thought or process, that you seem so opposed to the idea of flatting this hand on the button,
just because you are
OTB, or
because you are
table captain.
Albeit, I think I can see why you 3b CO, and I don't think it's terrible. But, I do think you'd be much, much better off just flatting. I wouldn't want to build a big pot against the competent player with a hand that could be dominated and cost me a bunch of money it didn't need to while, at the same time, running the risk of squeezing out the whale. I'd flat and invite him in! I'd also be happy to keep CO's range a bit wider by flatting, so that I can possibly make some money with the type of hand I'm most likely to make, which is one pair, in the type of pot I'm likely to win with one pair, a small to medium pot.