**Official uNL Microbrew thread: July(LC/NC)**

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Guys, a range consists of good solid hands and an air segment, where you have things like 44 and 87s or if you so choose 43s and Q3o

The reason you add junk and semi-trash to your ranges is to mask your good hands (Theory of Poker, bluffing frequencies) and thus increase the payoff on those.

All the hands in your pf ranges are NOT supposed to be profitable, you aim is to maximize your OVERALL winrate (or hourly, if you are a massive multitabler).


That being said, 43s is not in my UTG range, but I don't mind it being there. On a different note, insisting that it is profitable might be a stretch, but critizing it for being unplayable due to being unprofitable is also a stretch.

And finally if you suck postflop, playing with wide ranges is a spew, but that is a different subject alltogther.

/end Gelfordness.

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Gelford, I know you are a player who plays, uses and abuses table dynamics a lot more than anyone else at the microstakes. However, my issue with this hand is that you are opening it UTG, OOP. Stealing with it from the CO or BTN is fine. I wont do it, but I can see when someone opens up their game this could be a hand to be played IP.

calling a 3-bet with it is a whole other story, because there is so much less room to use table dynamics when the pot is being 3bet. Most 3bet pots (and Im still talking microstakes here) are being decided on the flop. It either goes in, or it will be folded. (or checked to the turn)

I guess its just personal preference, and it will help your image. But seeing as there arent many good regulars who take you image into account, its useless at the micro's IMO