Hmmm? My freind plays a donkament and i am railing.....

[maldini32]

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What's your opening range in the hi-jack with over 250 bigs?

Hes not raising from the hi jack. Even if he was i wouldnt be raising with this hand before the antes kick in. Tbh i dont fuck about before the antes kick in (maybe a leak). Rather pop her with 78o from there, the hand just plays bad outta position and your gonna lose a big pot or win a small one.

[thetank]

Misread by me.

As a genuine question though, open to anyone. What is your UTG+3 opening range when deep table chip leader in the early stages of an MTT.

[Longy]

Misread by me.

As a genuine question though, open to anyone. What is your UTG+3 opening range when deep table chip leader in the early stages of an MTT.

I will need to see your OPR to answer that.

[AlexMartin]

yeah i thought it was hard to butcher a hand harder, but he was adamant it was standard. i hate every street.

[daviebhoy]

As a genuine question though, open to anyone. What is your UTG+3 opening range when deep table chip leader in the early stages of an MTT.

I would rather play A5o here than A9. I would play Axs and AJo+. A9-A6 are just too difficult to hit the flop hard with when deep and now I'd just rather avoid getting in to difficult spots with them OOP. Even ATo is marginal to me and depends on how tight table is playing.

Like most things in poker I don't think playing A9 is wrong - just harder and I don't feel I am good enough at this stage to play it profitably from that position. I'm sure the better players here can and do.

[MANTIS01]

As a genuine question though, open to anyone. What is your UTG+3 opening range when deep table chip leader in the early stages of an MTT.

I don't think it's wise to ascribe an opening range for this position in a game you're not playing yet. With this sort of chip power your image and the level of resistance you encounter is going to determine your range. Saying you wouldn't raise with x-hand is putting the cart before the horse imo, cos if your image is solid and resistance is low not raising with that hand would be a mistake. So raising with A-9 is fine if you've been solid. Raising with A-9 is also fine if resistance is low. Personally if i've been active I would bin the A-9 to help cultivate the profitable solid image I want. I have a big stack but I'm not taking the piss is my preferred image here. The big advantages of chips/credibility/position will mean in many hands you play the conditions are gonna be very favourable for you. You needn't show a hand in time in order to make good progress imo. Tis why entering a pot vs the only big stack, surrendering your big advantages, and gambling your righteous position with bottom end of a straight on a paired board in the face of fierce resistance is simply spewtastic.

[GreekStein]

yeah i thought it was hard to butcher a hand harder, but he was adamant it was standard. i hate every street.

Compltely agree with you Alex.

Standard? worrying for your mate.

[noble1]

yeah i thought it was hard to butcher a hand harder, but he was adamant it was standard. i hate every street.

Somehow your mate has got to understand that you can play bad with the best hand [on the turn],it is a principle that many players never get.It goes against perceived poker logic but the point of this is that even though this player felt like they did everything right and std, and will no doubt think and tell everyone about how unlucky he got and what a donk villain was, he actually played this hand horribly, and if he ran it over and over again from the flop he would lose far more than he would make over the long run against villains range of holdings.He has good points to his poker game obviously as he has built up a gr8 stack but he has a leak to fix here and he has to understand that in order to improve a few tweaks in his approach to situations/position are required.

[Rupert]

pre is pretty awful, flop its obviously horrible calling the raise, OOP vs strong range which has blockers and like hardly any implied odds when u do hit etc