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Originally Posted by JSpazz
that's coz it's a damn good strategy. minraising puts the pressure on villain w/o opening yourself up to light 3betting and it also produces bigger SPRs which are more favorable for the button, while BB is tricked into flatting light and playing deep stax OOP. When a mediocre reg is 3xing you can just keep 3betting like a maniac and most ppl will not adjust correctly but still keep playing you out of pride
that basically affirms my suspicion: it's all just regs getting angry that their opponent is playing them well. they complain to pressure the other guy, or just because it's socially acceptable for some reason.
2 questions, though:
1) SRP's are good, but at what point (how deep) does it get better to just play in postition with really deep stacks, to the point where it outweighs you not having the initiative? (even though most people dont cbet properly either so that in itself is a reason why their initiative isn't important)
it's like, if you could have %10 edge in a $1 pot, or a %5 edge in a $2.50 pot, what its the best EV?
2) why does a 2x opening make it more difficult to 3bet light? purely post flop stack: pot ratio favouring the IP player? because say at 100, you risk $7 over a 2x opening, you are risking $7/6 to win $3. Over a 3x opening you are risking $10/9 to win $4. >>> You risk more money to win less preflop against a 3x opener.
and even if you're called or w/e, then the pot is smaller. **** stack: pot ratio....it doesn't matter too much past a certain point anyway, sans special circumstances. i'd think it's more important to just control the size of the pot as much as possible OOP, which implies bloat it to maximize your edge IP unless you get to that critical point where edge is decreased because of low stack: pot ratio. shouldn't you be wanting to find a balance between large edge, small pot / smaller edge, larger pot thing?
P.S. quite high atm, sorry if the above makes little sense