1. 2.5x-3x is plenty. The less you risk when stealing the less you lose when you fail. These guys are folding so much that we can raise J7s and be profitable, however with sb's 3bet percent we want to minimize our loss as much as possible.

2. Standard 4x. We're in ep, ya theres fish but we have 8 ppl behind us who could wake up with something better and crush our soul. Also being oop sucks

*3. Raise significantly larger pre. We can probably cbet small too

*4. False. Exactly what we raise depends on post flop tendencies...but things like JTs are almost always going to be profitable.

5. I like a larger than standard raise. Something like 8x should get calls from da passive fish and maniac and we're way ahead of both their ranges and in position. This should make it fairly easy to stack off post too

6. Hero is in MP with KK. The same 65/42 maniac, who has just lost his stack to hero in hand no 5 by calling down with tpwk, opens to 4x UTG, Action to hero.

This one is pretty tricky imo. Ima go with a 2.5x since i expect him to call with his entire range and stack off with TP or worse again and raise with good hands.

*7. Do we really agree with the author here? He makes an argument for raising 44 larger than AK because when 44 flops a set we want a big pot...and generally a medium pot with TPTK or something. But...this is kinda silly isnt it? Cuz by the same token, we should then also be raising 76s larger than we would raise AKo because we'll flop good draws that we want big pots with as well...but theres certainly no mistake that AKo is a much stronger hand. I guess this is why i suck at deep play.

Ill split it. I want to raise hands that make good draws or TPTK+ fairly large, 6xish, and hands that i intend to steal/bluff with a smaller size. Assuming we play awesome post...i might even raise larger just cuz i can cbet and take it down alot.


8. 3x is plenty...maybe 2.5x again

*9. Raise smaller so that they are forced to 3bet smaller. This will allow us to call more or 4bet and risk less than we normally would, as well as lose less when they 3b and we fold.

10. This one stumps me. I find it hard to believe we can shove and get called by his 96% of hands, and likewise hard to beleive we can just bet like 100bb or something. I open to like 10x and over bet the pot when i hit