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Originally Posted by javi
I appreciate the contribution towards the community for this thread. Although there's plenty I disagree with when it comes to your game theory. For instance you buy in for $300 but make $20+ raises. You're playing more like a 2/5 or even 5/10 game in this respect, which essentially makes you short stacked until you double up at least once. Therefore your range should be weighted towards shorter stacked EQ, such as broadways and top pair. In these situations when you hit, you should be looking to get it in ASAP. I.E. you raise TT and get 3 callers, you should be betting full pot or even more. You should frequently find yourself in allin situations, not check turns and calling river bets.
Suited connectors? Why bother. Unless everyone else is raising $10 and you can see a flop. I imagine most people are raising huge like you do, so you're never getting a good price to call unless you're all sitting super deep.
Once you do get deep I think you should be raising pretty wide from all positions. JTs utg? Raise it. 22? Raise it. A5s vs 2 limpers in MP? Raise it. Q9s OTB vs 5 limpers? Raise it. You pretty much always have implied odds with anything in these games, so play as many hands as possible.
I mean to be fair I categorize myself as a lag, but I think this is totally viable in almost any small stakes game. I've never really seen a "tight reg infested 1/2 game" in my life.
No worries about having a different theory on how to beat this game; the one bad thing about my method is that it is very results oriented based, and that might not be a good thing considering I've only played 1000 hours.
RE: TT raised to $20 with 3 callers with $300 stacks. I know my SPR is low here and I probably should be stacking off (and on certain boards, I might be leaning towards that). But I really really think I've failed miserably preflop. I've given 3 opponents immediate odds of 4:1 plus given them extra implied odds of 14:1, so 18:1 overall. So none of these guys is really making a mistake preflop (except maybe the first caller if it's not clear it's going very multiway, or maybe some idiots who are playing dominated crap). So preflop I have a small equity advantage for a mere 7bbs, and now postflop I'm playing for 100bb stacks and I'll have no clue if someone just flopped a set. For me, this situation is sucky, as there is a very good chance we make a big mistake here postflop (either folding the best hand or getting stacks in with the worst).
As for my believe of mostly checking the turn, realize that I don't do that in situations where I feel I've created a flop SPR where I should be stacking off on a safe board. So yes, in these cases I'm usually potting the flop to ship the turn.
RE: Suited connectors. That's the great part about the game I play in; a lot of my opponents aren't raising huge like I am. I can't tell you how many lol $8 / $10 / $12 raises I see preflop, even though it's abundantly clear that the table is such that this will see an eleventeen way flop. So I can get in there for a good price with speculative hands. I typically have far and away the largest preflop raise size at my table.
RE: raising a bunch of hands deep. We'll just have to agree to disagree here. With speculative hands, my goal is to get into a hand for as cheap as possible, see a flop in an eleventeen way pot where hopefully not one single idiot manages to fold preflop, keep a sky high SPR, and then simply capitalize on my opponents payoff tendencies postflop when I hit. Limping in for a mere $3 when I can possibly win $500 postflop (166x implied odds) gets me hard.
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