Here's basically my plan for SB with full stacks (here, too, I'd be interested in pursuing some of excession's short-stack thoughts further, but first full stacks). The assumption is also that everyone has folded to you in SB.
Starting (without reads yet): Raise any top 2/3 hand. If you get a call or re-raise, then play accordingly and now you have the hypothesis that we're getting too many calls. If fold, keep going with this (raising 2/3 and never limping) as long as it's working. "Working" is defined as "BB folds >2/3 of the time."
If BB is calling more than 1/3, then we try another strategy: The complex limp strategy, and that was my main reason for looking into these games--namely figuring out how properly to play limps from SB. And I'll take a stab at it not with [0,1] game but with poker hands.
Value limp re-raise: TT+ and AQ+ (4.7%). But also raise these 1/4 of the time, limping 3/4.
Bluff limp re-raise: 54s-JTs, 53s-J9s, 22-33 (5.1%). I'm actually suggesting this more often than prescribed because for one thing, these hands do well against monsters (in contrast to [0,1] game) and for another, I don't think many people make this play, particularly at lower levels, so your fold equity is probably higher than one might expect. Here, too, we limp 3/4 and raise 1/4.
Value raise: 44-99, AT-AJ, KT-KQ, QT-QJ,JTo, A2s-A9s (14.8%). We raise these 3/4 and limp 1/4. If limped, these are all limp-calls.
Random raise or limp: All other top 2/3 hands. On these, we're raising half the time and limping half the time, and they're all limp-folds.
I think this is a good strategy for beating excessive raising to limps.
There are 2 mistakes your opponent can now make to adjust to this strategy: 1) Backing down too much with raises (<25%), or 2) Folding too often to raises.
In case 1), our adjustment is to go to simply raising top 1/3, limping middle 1/3, and folding bottom 1/3. Villain is no longer sufficiently attacking our limps.
In case 2), we revert back to simply raising all top 2/3 hands.Statistics: Posted by Aisthesis — Tue Mar 25, 2008 6:45 pm
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