I'm struggling a bit with my opening ranges from various stack depths, and mainly the theory behind it. Could you possibly help me out a bit by commenting on the following examples?
1:
HERO is HU vs a fairly tight villain, who either 3bets or fold, and very rarely flats. Effective stacks are 13bbs. What do we do with:
K6s
K7o
2:
HERO is HU vs a maniac fish, who is all over the place. He's sticky, likes to peel, but also has shown a tendency to 3bet quite a bit. Other parts of the example are exactly the same as 1.
If someone is mostly 3betting or folding and not flatting much you want to minraise polar range, so hands you want to call all in and hands that are trash, so they dont suffer much when they get 3bet, and limp middling hands because they dont want to go all in and they dont want to see 3bet.
Response to your strategy would be not 3bet much and flat A LOT, so you see completely opposite of what 1st guy is doing.
ofc if guy is very tight and doesnt adjust you can minraise 100%
And if someone is very agroo with 3betting you want to limp much more and raise hands you want to go all in for obvious reasons
If someone is mostly 3betting or folding and not flatting much you want to minraise polar range, so hands you want to call all in and hands that are trash, so they dont suffer much when they get 3bet, and limp middling hands because they dont want to go all in and they dont want to see 3bet.
Response to your strategy would be not 3bet much and flat A LOT, so you see completely opposite of what 1st guy is doing.
ofc if guy is very tight and doesnt adjust you can minraise 100%
And if someone is very agroo with 3betting you want to limp much more and raise hands you want to go all in for obvious reasons
"and limp middling hands because they dont want to go all in and they dont want to see 3bet."
wow This is the core theory!
1. Being fairly tight is the greatest problem in Spins/SNGs.
vs. tight players:
- try to avoid allin situations
- try to keep his wrong strategy, so don't overadjust him
So I think:
K7o --> open
K6s --> limp, because I like to see the flop with these cards
2. vs maniac/fish
if he 3bets quite a bit, I just open only the hands which I would like to call the 3bet
limping the rest, especially if he doesn't punish that
so K7o/K6s -->limp
