Opening Poker Stake
In online poker games, you will find players opening for 2.5x or even 3x the big blind, whereas in live poker games you can find players opening for 6x or more, especially in the lower-stakes live poker games. It’s not just that, though, and bet sizing is an art in itself and a whole chapter should be dedicated to it. High Stakes Feud Daniel Negreanu vs Doug Polk Round 7Exclusive post match interview with DNegsCommentary by Jeff Platt & Patrick 'Egption' Tardif#DanielN.
By Alton Hardin
I spent a lot of time learning, tweaking and adjusting my 6-max opening raising, calling and 3-betting ranges over the past year trying to identify good, conservative, but strong and aggressive ranges for mainly beginning and struggling 6-max micro stakes poker players. So after lots of work putting these together, trying to make them as simple as possible to follow, I am here to share them with you.
The goal with these ranges is to be playing close to a 20/18/10 VP/PFR/3B game where (1) we are raising in a TAG range pre-flop, (2) we are not over calling too much, and (3) we are 3-betting aggressively for value with our value hands, especially when defending our blinds. Lastly, while we are 3-bet bluffing from time-to-time, it is not a big part of our game.
Open Raising Ranges
Staking is the act of one person putting up cash for a poker player to play with in hopes that the player wins. Any profits are split on a predetermined percentage between the backer and the player. A backed player is often known as a horse. Opening poker stake - Find potential answers to this crossword clue at crosswordnexus.com. Definition of Open Stakes Most poker games, both casino and home, use table stakes rules, which dictate the stake for a given hand. Players start the hand with that amount, and must complete the hand with that amount, minus losses, plus winnings. In other words, players cannot add money to or remove it from the table.
You’ll notice that our opening ranges are conservative, so if you want to open up your game, please feel free to play a wider range, especially in late position.
Open Calling Ranges
Our goal with our calling ranges is to minimize our over-calling where beginning and struggling micro stakes players end of check/folding a lot post flop. With these ranges, we follow the Gap Theory with our Broadway cards and we also throw in some small pocket pairs and suited connectors / one-gappers for implied odds.
Note: When I say “UTG” Open Calling Range, I am providing a starting point range of hands you can call an open raise from UTG. The same goes for MP, CO, BTN, and SB. So MP Open Calling Range is not the hands you should call from MP, but the hands you can call from an open raise from MP. This is the same for my 3-betting ranges. So please don’t get this mixed up because it can be a bit confusing if you mis-read the diagrams.
3-Betting Ranges
Our 3-betting range is a strong value-oriented game. You will notice that as our opponents open in later positions, we can 3-bet wider ranges for value, especially against BTN and SB opens. We do have a 3-bet bluffing range composed of small suited aces, 22-44 and a few combos of suited connectors. I do not recommend you 3-bet bluff that often unless someone is a habitual blind stealer that folds to a lot of 3-bets over a large sample size.
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