UTG optimization

[gsdavid]

[DonkiFornication]

You're not open-limping and you're not in the red. That's really step #1, IMO- min. open-limping without donating. Your PFR is 8% while the flops seen is 9%, so you're playing with a lot of calling stations. I'm comparing this with my stats where my UTG PFR is 14.4, but my flops seen is only 8.2. These calling stations are gonna be more willing to pay you off with those pairs when you set postflop and since they're calling stations, they'll limp behind you a lot.

Every time, you're faced witha bet, you look at the pot and decide whether it's a good proposition or not in terms of pot odds first and then you can range up your opponent and see how much of your stack you mgiht have to commit on later streets, yeah, yeah, yeah. But calling stations'll call raises bad preflop and float flops a lot and they're calling stations because they look at bets as "that's not too much" and "that's too much" completely independent of the pot size and their opponents range. It's the dollar amount they face and their cards. A 2/3 flop bet in an unraised pot is gonna get you more horrid Queen high calls than the raised pots when you set. So, you could just find those spots where you wanna get yourself and a couple of donkeys in cheap and open-limp an 88 or 99. It sounds passive, but you'll find the right people behind you at the table that'll make these situations very profitable to limp.

In turn, with a PF wildman behind you, you can just dump the 66-22, AJ, and KQ in EP as opposed to building the pot for his PF re-raise or flop raise. The aggressive tables are better played in position and I'd rather limp with suited connectors at an aggressive table than those low pairs if it's a bad aggressive table. Postflop, bad aggressors get intimidated by playback in the raised pots for the same reason as before- they're just looking at the bet they face and their cards.

If you can keep yourself away from losing big pots UTG, you're on the right track as you seem to be picking up nice pots if you're 11/100 and these thoughts are just little things to add into situations to make those situations more profitable, not overall strategy suggestions. 11/100 looks very good UTG- definitely "ahead of the curve," I'd expect.

[gsdavid]

[DonkiFornication]