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Originally Posted by jpgiro
If I were doing this from scratch, I would do a couple of things:
1. Max late reg as was suggested so you have the shallowest stack possible. That's still 75BB.
2. Focus on getting reasonable opening defending ranges down for that stack size. Understand what hands should open in certain positions. Understand what hands should call vs. 3-bet when you face action.
If you have good preflop construction, you're going to be better than a pretty decent percentage of the field already. It will also make postflop easier because you'll know what hands are in your range and what hands should be in your opponent's range.
I think this is the wrong idea. "Good ranges" require the player to play well post flop. Opening T8s from the cutoff is only going to be profitable if you play post flop well (or at least better than your opponent). Same with defending the blinds.
I'd instead focus on playing a much tighter range, opening bigger sizes, and look to make it a 1 street (preflop) or 2 street game. If you have 50BB, you can open to 5x, then jam 4x pot on the flop if you like it. That's going to be an exploitable strategy if the opponents learn it, but they won't come close to meeting a MDF if you threaten their stack.
OP, one thing you can definitely do is try to understand which boards will make for good stack off spots using the above strategy.