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Originally Posted by biggestfish
I read through that thread and gave it some serious thought about doing it. One thing I missed or wasn't included was his open range. Are we talking like 10% of hands? He said that he didn't care about position at all, and that his range was the same no matter the position.
Flux's strategy in that thread is a pretty solid baseline, but it seemed to me to be adjusted to dynamics at 1/2. For instance, he advocates opening a fixed range from all positions of 10%. This is not such a bad strategy in 1/2, because, even if you are in LP, it is almost always the case that a couple players will have limped in early position, and therefore, you probably don't want to raise a standard button open range -- like, I think raising KJo over limps is probably fine if you know what you're doing, but maybe it's not winning bunches, so it's fine to just overlimp that hand in LP.
Now, it is also fair to say that if you're playing in a more aggressive 2/5 game, players might not often limp when entering pots, and therefore you'll more often be faced with a dilemma of facing an open and having to decide whether to flat/fold/jam. That is a far more complicated problem than determining an open range, because your shoving range/frequency is going to be a function of the other player's opening range/frequency and you will need to make an estimate on that given the situation and then decide what your shoving range should be given your estimate.
If MP opens, are you flatting AJs/KQs on the BTN or shoving? It's not so clear. But, I guess you're jamming AQo/s+ and JJ+. What about TT? These aren't always easy decisions, and I don't think Flux provided detailed advice on how to respond to opens in the thread -- at least I didn't see anything in the first few pages... maybe someone can correct me if I missed it.