Quote Originally Posted by bigslikk
thx for the advice- yes i agree the speculative / drawing hands are good in loose passive. A lot of your advice makes sense. However- two questions:

1. If stacks are shallow, like 25-50M- how speculative do u wana get? at this level are we playing offsuit paint here or the small pp / sc's?

2. What do you think about gappers and 2-gappers (offsuit or suited)? Are these utter crap or playable?

opinions wanted and appreciated
I'm a bit different. I want to be aggressive, whether I'm on a table of calling stations or not. I just bluff less.

1. Preflop raise with AQ+ and 77+. Raise whatever amount it takes to get the pot to heads up or at most 3 way consistently. If that means a 15BB raise, so be it raise 15BB. If someone limp-pushes you call with AK, JJ+ I guess.

2. Heads up, you should cont bet only about 25% of the time you have a weak (less than TPGK hand). With AK, that means you'll bet with TPTK+ about 1/3 of the time and you'll bet a total of about 1/2 of the time. Any more cont betting is probably spewing, especially if you make the large preflop raise I suggested.

3. The objective of the game is to make TPGK+, bet 3 streets with it. If they show you a better hand, say "nh"

4. Call anywhere with all pocket pairs if there's gonna be 4 players in the pot. Call 1/10 * stack of PFR with a suited connector if there's 4 players in the pot already. Call 1/20 * stack of PFR with a gapped connector or if there's less than 4 players in the pot. If not a lot of raising pre flop, you can limp suited connectors. Sure it telegraphs your hand if you raise with 15BB with top 10% and suddenly limp. But they ain't good enough to exploit that. And if I have AT on the button, I can't raise you *even if* I've been observant and put you on 67s if another 5 players have limped in between.

Make money by
A) raising lots with good pre flop hands
B) betting 3 streets at least 3/4th pot and maybe pot with TPGK+. Bet whatever they'll call
C) hitting a set
D) playing a lot tighter than them