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Originally Posted by MadMojoMonkey
This is excellent advice.
There's no "correct" range. Poker games are conditional and your own personal style and preferences matter.
Poker ranges are driven by blind/ante structure, number of opponents, quality of opponents, available information (position), etc.
If you're really feeling like your range is out of whack, consider these starting ranges (as in think about the advantages and disadvantages):
Starting ranges for solid a LAG-style when it's folded (or limped) to you in X position:
BTN: 37 - 42%
CO: 25 - 30%
HJ: 10 - 12%
MP2: 7%
MP1: 6%
UTG+1: 5%
UTG: 4%
Of course, include all caveats about not playing a rigid range in any way. You should always be adjusting to table conditions. That said, notice how dramatically different (tighter) ranges get as you are further and further from the button.
This is (was) my starting range for the smallest stakes. This is about as loose as I can play comfortably until I have a couple of orbits in. If you prefer a TAG style, you'll want to dramatically trim the ranges in late position (and some smaller adjustments to MP).
This is more or less what I was looking for. I just feel at a loss in EP even with table reads and MP without. I feel like I'm taking a shot in the dark and sometimes fold 99, TT UTG. . . which is probably way too nitty. In MP if my range is going to include some large drawing hands, I'm assuming your 6%, 7% is a PFR when you're folded to. does most of this fall to a limping range if there is a UTG raise on your table, or are we folding out a portion of it and tending to 3-bet? I guess most of that falls to individual reads, but I'm curious at micro stakes, what do you consider in your MP range when a. it is folded to you, and b. the UTG 2bb raises to 3bb with folds between.
I feel that in MP especially I'm always out of my comfort zone with hand selection. Sorry if this question is sort of vague.
I guess my thought is, if it's folded to me, I want to consider strong (pp or AK, AQ etc) hands, and play them aggressively, plus add a bluff/drawing range if the people to follow are nitty or fold often.
If there is early aggression and there are loose players after, it seems limping with suited connectors and 3-betting with my {AA, KK} would be right, but I guess I don't know what I'd do here with say. . . AK, AQ with previous action and no other reads on what seems to be a loose table.
Anyways. . . those are my thoughts and confusions on a couple scenarios. . . maybe I'll post specific hands later, but I hope this somehow clarifies my question. I guess I'm wondering what considerations you make in determining MP and EP ranges, and whether my thoughts specifically on MP make sense, or if I should rethink them.
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