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Theory question:

All poker begins as a struggle for the antes. If there where no antes, there would be no reason to play.
The size of the antes in relation to future bets determines how loose you should play.

Theory of Poker


This makes perfectly sense in a 7 card stud game, where you are likely to get one bet on every street and the ante is whatever, you quickly can estimate how much money you on average get in return on each hand, you have immediate pot odds and it dertermines your starting hands range.


But can this be translated into NL hold'em.

I mean, you are sitting with 100bbs, which seems huge compared to future betsizes, but !!!

There are dynamics to be considered. One is average potsize .... if it is a nitty rockish table

then average pot is small and you can loosen up

but when at a lagtard table, you should tighnen up, but be willing to push you pf edges very hard ???


A few words on these dynamics ????

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A couple of things, if you realize that the poker is a struggle for the antes, the corollary to this is that a certain hand strength has a optimal potsize. If you get the pot to big postflop you give up too much in implied odds. If you get it to small you give up too much value.

A nitty rockish table, I would be looking for individual weakness of players. Does one player make the pot to big with AA or does another player keep it too small.

At a laggish table, I would be willing to play bigger pots with more marginal hands b/c they play too big of pots with too many hands.