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We're breaking Part 5 down into two weeks. This chapter covers Harrington's pre-flop strategy, including hand ranges for specific positions and situations. Because so many different pre-flop strategies can be played sucessfully, I think this section is ripe for criticism and discussion. Please post instances where your pre-flop strategy differs from Harrington's and why. Here are some questions to get things started.
1. On p. 179, Harrington advocates open-limping with AA-QQ 20% of the time against opponents that are studying his style. Do you think this is necessary? Why wouldn't opening up his pre-flop raising range (say, to include all PP's) achieve the same goal? Do you think this 20% limp strategy is a good one for online tournaments or cash games?
2. On p. 180, he advocates varying the size of your pre-flop raise from 2-5x BB. Do you like this idea?
3. Also on p. 180 he says that with AA-QQ in LP with you don't want to open-raise more than 3x the BB and you should open-limp more than usual. Do you agree with his reasoning?
4. What are the Gap and Sandwich concepts? In what situations might they not apply?
5. On p.190-91, Harrington advocates folding 66-22 and all SC's when sitting in MP behind an UTG raiser. Do you agree?
This is just the tip of the iceberg, imo. Feel free to contribute thoughts, criticisms and questions of your own.
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