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Baby Raising
I'll bet you saw the title and thought this was a thread about formula and diapers.
Actually I'm curious about the itty bitty little raises that I'm noticing as I transition a little from playing almost exclusively live, to dabbling online.
In my live games, I raise huge pre-flop. 7-10x usually. And that's because a great portion of the player pool is super-sticky pre-flop and then fit-or-fold post flop. If I'm stealing a pot, it should be a big one. Also, when I'm not stealing, the bigger raises set up low-SPR pots where stacking off with TPTK and overpairs is lol-easy and super profitable.
This strategy fails, and fails HARD when you get into games above the $5 blind level where players have learned what 3-betting is.
I assumed that 3-bets, and other countermeasures, are more common online than in low stakes live games, so I started off with what I thought was a more "standard" 3-5x raise size. But even that seems to be humongous compared to the typical raise sizes that I see. My first post on here was actually a hand where I raised to 4x, and it definitely raised some eyebrows.
In Tourneys, the small-ball strategy makes a little more sense to me. In cash games, I don't get it.
I'm not going to write out what my opening range is from each position. It's fluid, obviously, but I feel like I'm opening a solid and "proper" range of hands. Let's also assume that I'm properly evaluating board textures and c-bet/barrelling with the right frequencies......what's the advantage of having the pot be so small?
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