This section is an important one and studying the concepts discussed here will add a nice little unexpected boost to your winrate I can assure you. Please read from page 111 to 121 and carefully study what's beingn said. Having read this section, I've concluded that this is actually one of the better more accurate section of the book and one of the most relevant to online games. The author does not tilt me much at all here, so we must be on to a winner imo.

Okay I'm going to kick things off a little differently. Remember those comprehension exercises you got in English class in shcool, where you had to read some boring story about a puppy that wasn't toilet trained or some bs like that and then had to answer questions on said story? Well I'm going to advsie you read these pages and then all have a go at answering the questions about preflop raise sizing spots I'm about to outline. Try not to look at other's answers too much before giving your, own but rather have a go at it and then compare and contrast what you've got to what other's have got. I'll jump back in and have a look at your answers when there's enough.

Also, feel free to talk about other spots, post relevant HHs or jus shoot the shit in general about this topic at the same time.

Preflop Raise Size Quiz

Answer each question in order, and state both what you think is a good raise size and why if applicable. Questions where you shouldn't give an answer in this way are noted with a *. Assume we are 100bb deep unless otherwise stated.

1. Hero is OTB with J7s, the SB is a winning reg who 3 bets 7% out of the blinds and folds his sb to steal 80% of the time. The BB is a nit reg who folds 89% to steals and runs 14/10 at 6 max. It is folded round, action to hero.

2. Hero is utg in a FR game with AKs. The table is fairly soft and consists of a few nitty TAGs and 4 stationy fish. These guys play 54/11 on average and hate to fold preflop. Action to hero.

*3. How can we use preflop sizing to exploit a fish who limp/calls a lot and plays fit or fold postflop?

*4. T or F. We usually shouldn't open hands on the button vs a large fish in the blinds that are behiond his calling range equity wise.

5. Hero is in the CO with KQo in a 6 max game. UTG (a 20/3 passive fish) and MP (a 65/42 maniac tard) both limp. The BU and blinds are all tight players. Action to Hero.

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.

*7. When we are deep (200bbs or more) how should we adjust our BU raise sizing when we have players in the blinds who play much worse than us post flop?

8. Hero is in the CO with 87s in FR game and it fold round to him. The Bu and sb are 10/8 and 7/2 respectivley and just fold a ton. The bb is a short stack with only 25bb, he folds to steals 82% of the time and shoves the rest, he's a multitabling SSer. Action to hero

*9. Villains in front of me are 3 betting me lightly and makling life difficult. I like to open a wide range and so need to adjust my raise size to combat this. What should I do with it and why?

10. Hero is 9,200bb deep in a HU match and is on the BU with AQs. Villain is 96/3, loves to see flops, and calls down far too lightly preflop, and just has trouble folding anything with any sort of remote potential. Action to hero.