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Originally Posted by curdanol
What's the theory behind this?
The idea behind my method was stolen from PNLHE regarding the concept of setting up desirable SPRs / situations postflop.
Limping/overlimping in EP/MP (with a tight range, a lot which I'm planning to limp/reraise against certain raisers), I'm able to setup good situations for myself. If I get in the limp/reraise and it takes down big dead money preflop (much more $$$ than a raise would ever do taking down a lol meaningless bb or two), unraked at that OOP, fine. If the limp/reraise is called, it mostly sets up a trivial and very profitable commitment spot postflop. And if it limps around, whatever, I play a high SPR multiway pot where I have lots of streets to use my postflop skillz to make decent decisions (leaning to making nitty folds of one pair hands very multiway, with incorrect folds being at worst a small mistake thanks to being in a small unraised pot). Meanwhile, I avoid stoopid postflop situations that an EP/MP raise will often create: a multiway handcuffing SPR OOP where I can easily make big mistakes postflop (committing with the worst of it versus not protecting / folding with the best of it in big pots, often facing commitment decisions on early streets with very little info) against players that made at worst a very small preflop mistake (having all gotten fine IO).
And so preflop I basically limit my raising to the CO+, where I have a lot more information available (how many people / who are interested in their hand and to what extent, their stack sizes, etc.) to make much better decisions in an attempt to get myself in good spot postflop.
Anyhoo, that's the general idea and it works well for me / my skillz set / in my game.
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