Quote Originally Posted by Kamawoop
If you are playing micro-stakes than I would recommend limping alot. Who cares about building the pot, or narrowing the range when it's likely you'll get an allin bluffer, or caller for the nuts anyhow?

If you are playing higher then 0.25 / 0.50 then in my opinion 20% is too tight. Of course many players can play that range profitably, but I would rather fold AQ to the nits and play 57 against the maniacs.
No offence, but a lot of that post is backwards.

1) I agree with EzDuzIt, raising pre and cbetting is more profitable than limping and hoping to catch something IMO.

2) 20% is not too tight if you're playing higher than 50NL. Phil Galfond (OMGClayAiken) recently said that he thinks you can beat nosebleeds playing 16/14 as long as you balance your ranges.

Also:



Yes, that's playing 17/13 at 100NL. I had a multitabling ratio of about 8 there as well. I'm happy to admit I was on a bit of a heater, but I could definitely see my winrate settling at about 2.5-3.


Why the hell would you wanna play 57 to the maniacs? Gimme big cards vs. those fools any day.


"Who cares about building the pot"

WHAT?!!!?!!!?!?!!


"or narrowing the range"

WHAT!?!!?!!?!!!



Building the pot is ESSENTIAL. If you don't build a pot there's nothing to bet into. Pot control is a much bigger part of NLHE than you think.

If you don't bother narrowing your opponent's range (which indicates you're not thinking about it) then you don't know what you're trying to achieve. It sounds like you're blindly shoving your big hands hoping your opponent has something good; which in some cases is correct but more often than not you need to optimize your betting towards the part of your opponent's range that you can make the most money off.



I'm not trying to be harsh or an arsehole here, I'm just trying to kick the learning cycle in - you have a lot to learn and here is an awesome place to learn it.