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Originally Posted by Karganeth
Burn that list, it's worthless. Actually no, its worse than worthless its harmful. It will only serve to impede your progress as a player. Do not open shove at 10/20 with 25bbs. There's actually only 1 reg at the $7s who open shoves at 10/20 (anyone who has ever played the $7s knows who I'm talking about).
You need to be much much looser. You're going to be a big loser if you don't become wider.
The average reg thinks "I'll just sit out at 10/20 and wait for the blinds to be bigger, thats where my edge is". The best regs think "10/20 what a great opportunity to win lots of chips" and they take advantage of that by having wide ranges.
If you don't know how to play AK when you miss the flop you don't know how to play poker. You must fight for every pot. Every hand a bitter battle to the end. Put everything on the line at every opportunity you get and you will become feared by the regs. You can't give up just because you miss the flop.
Reading from a list of pre defined actions off a list isn't poker. Poker is an art. I do a considerable amount of analysis on my play but at the end of the day I always come to the same conclusion - the plays you make depend on the villains more than anything. You need to understand the dynamics of a table before you raise. Some tables you can open with any 2, others you might want to wait for something stronger.
That's a great way of seeing all this, makes me think a lot, thanks for the patience to type all this, but it was worth as hell.
The reason I was trying to come up with a chart was to at least have a guideline.
I was actually playing a lot wider than I described, but a guy from a brazilian's forum told me that I should play like I described here, since he was already grinding $7 I was trying this way also because the way I was playing, paying attention to every detail of the villains wouldnt let me open more tables, I play fine with only two, if I tried to open four, I wouldnt go so well, and since everybody tells me the HT I have to put up volume, many tables, mane tables, that was what I was trying to do.
But hell, **** the amount of tables, gotta learn the game first, guess with time I'll be able to get the info that I need with more tables, right?
Thanks
GL