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Originally Posted by SteveL91
It creates more decision points. If you consistently make better decisions than your opponents, you'll make more money; if you make worse decisions, you'll just hemorrhage money. Assuming 6-handed: 40% COULD be a good strategy, but you need to understand that you're going to be pushing more marginal situations, which will increase your variance, and if you're not playing the hands correctly, you're (at best) handicapping yourself and increasing your variance even more.
It's possible to make some of the ev you've lost back, and in the case where opponents are really bad and you're really good, more than you've lost, but most of the time, 40% will win you a lot less than 25% - if you're winning at that vpip at all. Ranges become unbalanced postflop too.
That becomes even more true in raked games. So in a live, high stakes game with fish, you can and should open up your game. Otherwise, deviate in-game per opponent rather than widening your ranges as a response to a population read.
