We should open 98o as a default from SBvsBB. That is all.
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Yes, you guys are indeed right. I got this one in a coaching session. This part started with the question from VaskataBuci who asked nitrol 'You are opening 45 % from SB?'.
The discussion followed that we want to make clear that we can open very wide on SB as everyone agrees that if villain folds more than 50%, villain 'is your man' (VaskataBuci) and 'it would be auto-profit vs most villain' (la55i). nitrol agrees as well by stating that 'we can open very wide from SB'.
Nitrol then makes a statement about opening on SB vs BB, following la55i who confirms this and gives another effect to it. Apparently, 'exploitability' is out of scope for nitrol. If we have to analyse solely what is being said by nitrol in this thread we would have to make a connection between 'opening very wide on SB vs BB' and 'opening on SB vs BB for 100% is too much because we are OOP and have a mediocre hand'. This leaves us to assume that we should open very wide on SB vs BB but not 100% and have to take OOP and mediocre hands into account. We can make a couple of sentences with that but it would have to come down to these 3 variables.
Only a bad player should slavishly follow an open-raising chart. Not saying all of them are bad, but they are all someones POV. Ranges should be adapted to opponent and own skill.
Originally posted by nitrol
Well, I open 98o from SB ... I feel skilled enough to play them.
Me too, but I probably lose with them. That is alright since I hate money:D
I'm losing a little with 89o. But I don't know if little bit over 100k sample is enough to look at winrates of specific hands.
If you lose just a little, then you probably win playing them with the overall range in mind. That is to say, your truly strong hands profit more than the actual 98o loses because wider ranges makes you harder to read. You get more action when you "have it". Too tight players can't win.
Pre's fine, some 40% PFR ranges can have this in.
if it's really -ev then just fold, I doubt that thinking applies, -ev is -ev. Even tho it'll be hard to prove that with just your database. And all solvers play mixed strategy in SB so just do what feels right and against very good players pick a frequency that can't be heavily exploited.
Post I'd either check call flop or cbet flop check call turn check fold river
Hm.
I dare say that if every hand in your range is a winner, then you play too tightly. You should at least have BE hands to confuse the opposition. And since exactly BE hands are hard to come over, allow for a small margin of +/- a couple bb/100 or so to define BE. This is what I mean by "lose a little".
If I play only those hands that I'm winning with, I can't play with AQo.. 140k hand sample and my AQo is losing. 1300 hands and -1200BB.
Imo it must be variance but I'll look into that. Hard to believe that I would just play AQo so badly ♦