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Originally Posted by NeverInTheMoney
its much more about post flop play than preflop opening ranges.
however, opening too much pushes out ranges that you want to play against (you open almost every hand you play so this is clearly happening). for example, since u are opening AT and garbage like it, you are only getting called by AJ+. do you see? your opening 14% is only getting you called by hands that have you crushed and it pushes out hands that you have crushed.
and, post flop play is where most of the $$ is made. think about this, you are only putting in 4x preflop, and everything else that goes in the pot goes in post flop. this is where reading is important. i cant explain this, as its instinct to me, but i think if i could put it in words you need to look at:
1) position. what is my opponent holding in his position playing for a raise?
hat does my opponent think i have?
2) betting patterns. you need to recognize when players flop huge and how to fold. folding top pair to a pot size bet from the SB in a limped pot is not horrible. you only lose 1 BB compared to much more BBs lost seeing it to SD.
3) read your opponents.. i really cant explain this, its totally situational.
4) trap your opponents. if you know your opponent likes to fire, check to him and let him fire. let him fire again on the turn. let him bet his stack off. you need to use players tenencies against them.
5)checking the river is not horrible. i like to be aggressive on the flop and dturn and often check behind my opponents on the river unless i have a very strong hand.
6) be careful on dangerous boards.
if you master this you will be consistent.
My opening range is fine, I am never ever going to open limp, folding is better for me. I am also pretty tight with my raising range until MP2. I pretty much only raise all PP's, KQs+ then the odd low SC like JTs etc(but rarely from UTG).
Opening a hand like AT is fine even when you can get called by AJ and are dominated, the problem is I dont always let go when I should, but if a good player who can find the fold button then raising AT is the thing to do.
When he raises AT and gets called by AJ the chances of an A hitting are low since there's only 2 in the deck, so we need to avoid the 3 J's but even if we dont the most we should(lol for me) is the price of the raise an c-bet. But we make that money when more often then not the flop comes with an ace of jack and we c-bet and villan with AJ folds the better hand.
There are some hands I could limp on the btn multiway instead of raising though, and I'm gonna go through my LP hand and see which ones I am losing with.
I agree with your other points you mention though, and this definitly solid advice to winning at the micro's and I think I have most of them down well and I feel I am not to behind on most of them. I especially like your pint 4 though, and it's something I dont do enough.
It's pretty much **** like this and having just won 46% of hands at showndown that have me being more up and down then a hookers underwear.
Poker Stars $25.00 No Limit Hold'em - 9 players
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2+2 Hand Converter
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UTG+2: $16.65
MP1: $29.30
MP2: $24.65
Hero (CO): $25.00
BTN: $25.25
SB: $26.15
BB: $5.00
UTG: $29.00
UTG+1: $34.55
Pre Flop: Hero is CO with Q
Q
1 fold,
UTG+1 raises to $0.50,
3 folds,
Hero raises to $3,
3 folds, UTG+1 calls $2.50
Flop: ($6.35) 2
A
9
(2 players)
UTG+1 bets $1.50, Hero calls $1.50
Turn: ($9.35) J
(2 players)
UTG+1 bets $1.75, Hero calls $1.75
River: ($12.85) 4
(2 players)
UTG+1 bets $3.25, Hero calls $3.25