open bet 2.5BB every hand you get preflop.
call some raises depending on cards and other factors.
fold to some raises depending on factors (bet size from opposition)
never re-raise preflop always looking to play flops

is this preflop stragegy exploitable? if you play well postflop could it be profitable?

all this is in mtts 15BB +

How are you doing with your 1 million 2NL hands?

Try and let us know.

1) All you are doing is shortening stacks, it's essentially a 'no option' Rock/Mississippi straddle.

2) Any time a poker Player does the same thing all the time it can be exploitable.

3) All the Players from UTG to your right know that all they have to do is limp and they will get a 2nd shot at raising (3-bet), but now with the additional information Players have 'provided' to them as it comes back around.

4) Even if you are good post-Flop and are willing to play with 50% of all hands you are dumping 7.5-9 extra bb per orbit back to the table 'for no reason'.

5) Never 4-betting PF is just taking tools out of your tool box ... GL

While there is value in some games opening wider to steal more blinds, generate action, and disguise your hand strength, it would be extremely unlikely that players at your table would not adapt to the strategy you have described. Having a consistent and understandable approach like this negates any advantages you might have from playing atypically. You would be destroyed within a few level if you play this strategy.

Any approach must have balance, must be able to disguise strength and bluffs, and must be executed in mathematically correct proportions. While your approach does disguise strength, you end up with playable hands far less than you would need. As Answer pointed out, you are shortening your stack, but you really aren't shortening theirs.

It is good that you are thinking of different approaches and using thought exercises like this to try and develop new strategies. Always ask yourself what you are trying to accomplish, and how your gameplan makes money.

It may work , i dont think there is people tryed it , but you need be totaly perft postflop play , without put your self into messy spot's wich if we count hands played will be so hard , but GL blink us with results!

I don’t know about tournaments, but a lot of people have played a 100% VPIP style preflop.

Maybe 7 or 8 years ago, we even had a challenge who would get the best results over 10k (?) hands of 100% VPIP at NL2. I think I still have a video of my play somewhere. IIRC there was a stipulation that if action got to you for the first time and the bet was already 15BB+ you were allowed to fold. So you basically had to at least coldcall 3bets but not 4bets or all-ins.

I was up money over the sample but didn’t win the most. I highly doubt that style could win money in today’s NL2 games though.

lol I used to play 250BB on ipoker with buddies of mine when we were drunk. We had to have 75% VPIP regardless of action and I even though we only played a couple of thousands of hands we got a ridiculous amount of folds and made a profit. Pretty amazing what blind aggression does in deepstacked games.

I played against a guy who was watching movies on his iPad with headphones on.

He played for about 6 hours and didn’t look at his own cards once.
He would cold call raises from late position and then usually force the raiser out, or end up folding.

Nobody else seemed to notice that he wasn’t checking his own hole cards.
And he was actually succeeding most of the time and left the table with a few hundred in profit.