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Originally Posted by Dan GK
The way I was instructed to think about ISO raising spots is that with 1 limper, you can isolate with your normal RFI range. If there are 2 or more limpers, you should be isolating with the range of one seat before yours. So with two limpers in the HJ, I am isolating with the LJ range. So I would be folding JTo pure and even a hand like QJo.
The way
I learned to think about iso spots is that with one limper we should tighten up for our position, because our normal opening range has some weaker hands who are profitable because of sometimes taking down the blinds. (We "can no longer profitably open many of the worst hands in [our] range.")
With a limper, we are going to take down the pot rather less often. With two limpers we ought to tighten up even further, because now we will often have two horses to outrun rather than just one.
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Originally Posted by Dan GK
The BTN straddle further changes things. The BTN has less incentive to fold than a normal big blind or small blind does because he has position. This means you should be attempting to steal a lot less, so you can no longer profitably open many of the worst hands in your range.
This is true; and at the same time there is a compensatory effect of the pot starting larger compared to the straddle (1.75 straddles) than a conventional blind structure does to the big blind (1.5 blinds). The bigger pot incentivizes us to play wider ranges.
That said, in this actual situation, from the HJ, any raise we make has to get through four players: the CO and the BTN straddle, both of whom have ATK, and the BB and UTG, both of whom have condensed their ranges by limping in. I want to make my iso size 7x the straddle: four for the first limper, one for the second, one for the straddle, and one more because the straddle will have position for the rest of the hand. And since we're raising so big, we ought to consider how tight our range should be to make this raise. I don't think JTo makes the cut.