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After some receiving some useful feedback regarding my PF strategy, I have decided to take a more aggressive approach with my ranges.
My major change - which is raising limpers in LP with the same range of hands I limped with previously - is based on the belief that limpers are often weak. I used to do this when I played 100NL in August/September 2007. I stopped because I went on a bad run. (Bad Reason!)
Lets think about this clearly.
Benefits:
- I've reduced the number of multiway pot decisions.
As of right now, its difficult to play in a pot with more than 2 opponents. How do you assign ranges? How do you anticipate actions? Its just too difficult for me to do, so isolating is very important for post flop play.
- When I get called, I have control of the pot AND position.
- Deception increases, my hand cannot be clearly defined without: 1. making the pot very big (If my villain is going to c/r me, I expect it to be around 15 more bets. My actions thereafter are based on my holdings, the villains past.) 2. getting to the river - where the villain must squeeze some value out of position vs my wide range of holdings without losing value to bluffs or completed hands.
- Limping villains feel targeted when raised. Hopefully this opens up their range for calling. I do not expect villains that limp/call to adjust by being more aggressive postflop. They will, however, become worse calling stations. This should be where a good amount of $$ comes from in taking them to value town.
Risks:
- Loss of a multiway pot.
I hardly have the ability to defend against the following argument without hand histories to back them up. "Why would you want to raise 4 limpers with pocket 6s when you can hit a set and extract a lot out of it." To be honest, my perception based on experience tells me that playing for full stacks in a heads up pot is easier than extracting from multiple opponents.
- The ol' limp reraise.
In LP, I am only raising limpers about 15-18% of the time. Getting limp reraised is so rare PF that I don't even consider it something to adjust to. Let the cards decide what to do from there.
- Adjusting regulars.
I am still unresistant to floats. The most difficult hands occur when a familiar face calls a raise behind me, just calls my flop bet, then fires the turn when checked to. Its a meta game thing that I cant get into right now.
Speaking of adjusting regulars...
Heres a list of people I can't seem to beat:
Tromulator. (Ahead by $107.35, 177 wins vs 114) This silent multi tabling beast has been looking me up often recently. Cant beat him.
Daddy1234 ($114.35, 68v32)
cin1000 ($94.45, 134v86) The Hawaiian whos cant stop 3betting me. Has me figured out, so I stopped playing when he'd be awake.
phhsales($69.75,116v72) Moved up to 100NL, I think...
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phhsales did move up...I have no idea how to beat that guy, his style crushes me. Tromulator and Cin are both excellent players that I try to avoid.
ThePHC
I had KK on the 4bet pre btw PHC vs your BB 3b, but I suppose that was obvious.
In response to this:
"Why would you want to raise 4 limpers with pocket 6s when you can hit a set and extract a lot out of it."
Add up all the times you raise the limpers and take down 5.5bb's. Also add up the times you raise and one or two of the limpers call and you take down the 10-12bb pot with a cbet. Winning the dead money over and over again is a lot better than limping and hoping to flop a set, and then hoping someone has something good that they'll call you down with, which doesn't happen that much in limped pots. The other benefit is if your flop cbet gets raised your hand is so easy to get away from, so you it's not like you lose that many big pots.
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