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Originally Posted by ikestoys
TAG raise unopened pots. Yes this means you open with 55 in MP. Simply put, there's not enough 3betting going on in most LLSNL to worry about this being wrong.
This is not necessarily true. With a lot of those high implied odds hands such as 22 and JTs, it's perfectly reasonable to open-limp them from EP if you think there's a decent chance of this going multiway unraised. As a matter of fact, it's almost certainly a mistake to open-raise these when people will coldcall ferociously, as you'll just end up with a highly speculative hand out of position.
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Originally Posted by ikestoys
a. EP - UTG through UTG+2 - 22+, AK, KQ (9.5%) of hands
b. MP - UTG+3-HJ - 22+,ATs+,KTs+,QTs+,JTs,ATo+,KTo+,QTo+,JTo (18%)
c. Late position - 55+,33-22,A2s+,K8s+,Q8s+,J8s+,T8s+,98s,A2o+,K9o+,Q9o+,J9o +,T9o (33%) of hands
These ranges seem absurdly pair-heavy and high card-heavy to me. EP: 22 over AJs? MP: JTo over 87s? In these low stakes games where the pots are frequently multiway, even with a raise, there should be a fairly large discrepancy between suited and unsuited, and connectors (suited or unsuited) should drift downward significantly below your high card "line" (e.g., for K8s+,Q8s+,J8s+,T8s+,98s the "line" would be 8).
For instance, in MP, I'd switch:
22+,ATs+,KTs+,QTs+,JTs,ATo+,KTo+,QTo+,JTo (18%)
to
55+,A5s+,K9s+,QTs+,JTs-87s,A8o+,KJo+ (18%)
for the same open-raising percentage.
Also, in LP, I think if it's so frequently folded to you that you've got a well-defined CO/BTN opening range, it's just time to find another game. We, or at least I, play 1/2 specifically because it's multiway flops with people showing down top pair 6th kicker, value bet thin, EZ game. I don't want to have to deal with stealer-defender HU flops until I move up.