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Pre Flop Raise - How Much?
In your opinion is altering the amount of your PFR depending on your hand strength a good or bad thing?
In FR games I have used 4xbb at lower stakes /3.5xbb at 200NL/3xbb at 400NL (+ 1bb per limper) whatever hand I am raising with.
In MTTs I like to raise whatever seems to be getting isolation at the earlier levels (often 3xbb), then 2.5xbb during the mid stages once stealing becomes profitable, and often down to 2xbb once I am down to the last few tables and the blinds are massive (although I am usually having a beer and watching TV once the tournie gets to this stage ). If my stack size allows it I will increase these amounts as required by situation to force out multiple limpers or if moved to a table where small raises are getting no respect...
HOH advises varying raise size according to hand strength (e.g QQ/JJ/TT from EP @ 4xbb but varying this between 3bb - 5bb for deception.) I have read similar advice elsewhere in reference to cash games.
Far be it from me to disagree with Harrington and others that know 1000x more about the game than I do but but isn't it more deceptive to keep PFR's constant so that you are giving away no information at all??
Also if you raise your vulnerable hands bigger, then you are increasing the pot size/putting more of your stack at risk with weaker holdings. I understand that the idea is that your chips are at less risk because of the decreased chance of callers, but unless the stacks are very short what hand would a villain in LP fold to a 4xbb raise that he would have called a 3xbb raise with?
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