Re: Alan Goehring on min raising - do you agree?
I tried the minraise for 4 100+ buy ins based on Lindgren's book where he advocates the minraise early on, as he likes to play a lot of pots in position to a caller in the blinds.
It also keeps the pots small so you can try to outplay the caller even with an inferior hand without getting hurt too badly if that doesn't work out.
I got a LOT of calls from the blinds, and picked up quite a few chips, but you find yourself having much tougher decisions to make.
I settled on, and am now using a range of 2.5x to 3x the BB as an open raise during the first 4 or 5 levels rather than the 3-5x I used previously. The results are better, but I don't know that I can attribute it to this specific change.
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