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 Originally Posted by Fnord
Originally Posted by r8ed
I' m not sure if this thread is rhetorical or what, but I wanted to make those points.
Thanks for your contribution. It is exactly this kind of thinking which I feel is costing many NLHE money and giving them the wrong perspective in these games.
Although your point about controling the size of the field does have some merit. Particularly discouraging players with position from comming in behind you.
BTW, what's magic about 5x? Why not 3x, 4x or 6x?
5xbb seems to do the job at 25NL full ring. 4 gets too many callers and 6 gets too many folds. It's been the number working for me. Maybe for deeper stacked games, you could bet at 8xbb or higher as long as you keep your bet constant. Since pocket pairs have the odds to call a raise that is 10% of the smallest stack in the hand, you need to raise it up higher.
Not raising reminds me of omaha. Everybody limps in and whoever hits their hand wins. Yipee.
Also, AK was a losing hand for me for a long time. Why? I attribute it to NOT raising preflop - because once I started to raise it 5xbb and continuation bet (full pot) the flop every time I turned that stat around quick. It's a profitable hand for me now. So raising AK/AQ lets you represent AA/KK on the flop as well.
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