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Message: [QUOTE="kdmeteor, post: 7020174, member: 1036998"] This isn't very related to the hand, but something I've thought a ton about. So I'm not raising 22 because it's normal for live poker. I mean, it is in fact normal, but I don't care; I'm comfortable doing things that no one else is doing. It's also normal to call from the SB every other hand, and I almost never do that. My reasoning behind the RFI sizing is -- like, so you win in poker through mistakes of your opponents, right? And one mistake that most people make live is to call too much OOP. And if you really believe that, then well they make more of a mistake the larger your RFI sizing is, right? Like, it's probably a mistake to call a 3BB open with K5o, but it's a much bigger mistake to call a 5BB open with K5o. Which means you should just raise as large as possible. Which in fact is what I'm doing more and more -- if there is a strong player in the BB, I always go 12, but if it's a fish, I just think, how high can I make this before they do something about it? And if the answer is, they're just going to call every other hand even if you RFI for 6 BB (which would be 24), then I'm going to RFI for 24. In this case I didn't really know too much about BB yet, but they're weak and most weak players call too much, so I went with 18 (to which I then added 4 because there was one limper). It is ironic that I end up playing more like the weak players and less like the other pros on the table in terms of my raise sizing due to this reasoning, but like, I don't think that's a reason not to do it. If this is a case in which weak players end up making the better play by accident, then so be it. [/QUOTE]

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