What is the best range to flop in early position (sb, bb, utg)

[nelomec]

Imagine you are in a tournament with 300 players, each table has 9, the variance is much smaller in this type of tournament compared to other larger ones, and the majority are playing tight and aggressive, how would you adjust your game and what range would you use in each position for this type of tournament?

 

[TeUnit]

This is difficult question to answer because you will have different villans, different effective stack sizes, and icm considerations.

Your opening range utg will be different with 150 blinds, 30 blinds, and 10 blinds.

Your button steal range may change depending on the villan, the effective stack depths, and the icm.

 

[SpanRmonka]

On average you need to be playing a fairly standard range in each position.

I may be wrong but I don't think the number of players in the tournament particularly matters in terms of your ranges in each position. So you are only looking to alter your ranges based on the few players who are not tight aggressive.

 

[EarnDAStack]

My recommendation would be to focus on learning the default opening ranges from each position and at each stack depth before looking to make too many exploits. If you don't know your baseline it's impossible to know how how far to deviate with your exploits. If you don't know what the default thresholds are in each situation you can't know what you would add or remove from your range to exploit a certain player's tendencies.

Exploits are deviations from the default strategy to exploit player tendencies, knowing the default strategy is important otherwise you are just guessing what the exploits would be.

GL

EDS

 

[dreamer13]

It is very important to learn to think about all the possible groups of hands that your opponent could end up with in any given spot.It is obvious that the most profitable strategy in poker will always be to find weak players and exploit their leaks.When it comes to bluffs that you should include in your range, the ratio of bluffs and semi-bluffs to value on the flop should be around 2 to 1.

 

[eetenor]

Imagine you are in a tournament with 300 players, each table has 9, the variance is much smaller in this type of tournament compared to other larger ones, and the majority are playing tight and aggressive, how would you adjust your game and what range would you use in each position for this type of tournament?

This is a question that people have wrote books and multiple courses on-- It is an enormous amount of information to answer this question-- If we are here to study and improve our poker skills the most important factor is to be succinct in our steps to study---

If you want to understand ranges I suggest you get the free version of GTO Wizard as it has ranges for multiple stack sizes and positions
After studying that you can then ask how would one adapt to TAG ranges which are not GTO ranges--- without the basic understanding however you can not apply adaptations

 

[danricepoker]

Hi guys,7 years poker pro and coach here:

So, it's a good question. 1st thing ANY top player does when they sit down is analyse 4 main positions and opponent types in those: That is

BB
Button
Small Blind
Cut Off

In that order of importance. You should always know computer ranges as default, but never want to use them. Money comes from weak players, and playing aginst weak players a LOT, not playing solver ranges, because that suggests your playing vs unexploitable players. Not good.

So, you always want to know how and why to deviate preflop, and find games where you need to, which is why it's a GOOD question

Lets take your example: If the BB and BU (most important positions to analyse) are tight, RFI wide. UTG normally you RFI 17% range, play a LJ range (rougly 22%). Same in the HJ ( normally 27% range) , now play a 32% CO range etc.

Now, this is rough advice without context. How much you increase your RFI % depends HUEGELY on opponent tendancy, stack size, ICM etc, and that IS the skill of cruishing tourney poker.

But, the big take homes are, IF the BB or SB are tight, RFI wider, and if they are calling too wide (and don't 3 bet), also raise wider.

If the BU and CO are wide.. RFI tighter, and if BU and CO are tight RFI wider.

If the BU and CO call too wide, your wide RFI means EV is distributed to the BB mainly.

If SB/BB calls wide, EV is distrubuted to you being IP Postflop >> your aim is to always do this as much as possible, OR get overfolds Preflop from nittyness .

Any Qs, ask away glglglgl

 

[danricepoker]

Btw, I have made 200+ optimal solver ranges at all stack depths that I give away for free. I hate bullshit companies charging for ranges and giving bad advice.

Just meessage me or hmu if you want them 💪 glglglgl