Let's say you're at a table where everyone is calling 2.5x

Do you..

A. Tighten your opening range, but keep using 2.5x
B. Tighten your opening range, but increase to 3x (or higher)
C. Keep your range the same, but increase to 3x (or higher)


Assume the table is mostly passive, so a lot of calling, but not as much 3-betting.

Tighten and increase sizing.

I am going to tighten up my opening ranges in the LJ (EP) and HJ (MP) because in the conditions you specify we are very likely playing the hand out of position, and we want a much stronger range when we wind up doing this.

My CO opening range is going to stay about the same. My BTN opening range is going to be wider because the blinds are going to be calling too much, and we print when they pay to see the flop and then have to give up all the misses in their crappy ranges to flop c-bets and turn barrels.

My squeezing range (not my opening range) is going to get wider, because if no one is four-betting, we print when we three-bet with a decently strong range against the dogshit ranges these bozos are going to flat/call with. See above about printing with flop c-bets and turn barrels.

Agree with Alan.
You can size up your OR depending on your hand for example TT, AQo+,ATs+KQs OR 5BB or even bigger and then smaller sizing with rest of hands you want to raise. You could also open limp some hands with nut potential if table is really fishy.

Equilibrium ranges have a lot of 0EV hands that rely on stealing the blinds to be breakeven. If that's not happening often enough, you want to stop playing those hands.

If your opponents are calling a lot then you'd want to size up so they overpay for their equity with the bottom of their range.

So size up and tighten up.

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Opening wider against calling stations is the wrong exploit. Although you can justify it with enough "postflop edge".

I think it stakes dependant, i m just tighting up even on btn if i have no fold equity postflop against 2 fishes. My opening size is rather determined by chance of sqeeze rather than chance of being called, but range is not same

It depends on how they play postflop, if they end up sucking ass I'll probably stay the same or widen up.
If they suck preflop but magically turn into GTO bots postflop, then you have to tighten up

Won't this transparent raise sizing make us exploitable?

Do they respond inelastically to sizing changes?

I would agree with alan go tighter OOP. Though I do recall Bencb recently saying if you have a big postflop edge you should play loose.