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I didnt get to play last night but I spent most of my work hours thinking about ranges. Alot of things I have read on FTR are starting to click for me.
I now get that Villian has a range for every action on every street on every hand. He will limp/raise/fold a certain range PF. He will bet/raise/fold a certain range on later streets.
What matters to us therefore for every decision we make is how our range relates to villians range. This is why there should be no set rules about what cards we play in certain situations against certain villians. This is also why it is correct to raise our better hands against a Villian that limps preflop alot because we want to get money in whilst we have the equity advantage.
Not just because "AQs is a good hand". Against someone that only ever plays AA and always preflop limps it (extreme I know), AQs would not be a good hand to raise with.
So my thoughts are from all this.. my current game of playing extremely tightly may not be fully optimal against a Villian with a high VPIP. I can afford to raise with a wider range (provided im still thinking about stack sizes, position, etc) because that wider range will retain the equity advantage against this type of Villian.
I was also thinking that the equity I have with my wider PFR range will reduce if there is more than one high VPIP% Villian in the hand. I often get 4 or 5 villians calling a 4BB PFR at 2NL. So perhaps when raising a slightly more marginal hand range PF, I should raise it bigger to cut more villians out.
Obviously im not telling the guys that know what they are doing anything new! Im just trying to think of it a bit more conceptually rather than thinking "Ive got AQs in middle position, raise".
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