Re: How to beat PLO25
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PREFLOP TIGHTNESS
... Playing more hands increases variance (for me), and often I start at 30 and drift to 40-50 especially if I have a mark in my site. So if I start at 20 then often I might move to 30. And I find that when I start playing 20-30% type of hands with danglers and low pairs, I start to get myself in trouble - it also leads to harder decisions, i.e. does this donkey really have top set this time? So in summary, I agree you can play at 30% and win, it just makes it more difficult and I have no information that it increases my winrate.
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I forgot to reply to this. One of the primary reasons to play marginal hands is to enhance the action you get with your better hands. In fact, it's often in your interest to play some -EV hands if this loosens up your image enough to earn you more +EV on your bigger hands. A similar (and probably significantly stronger) agrument can be made for raising with some -EV hands since this can dramatically increase the action you get with your best hands.
This comes from a player who knows he should raise far more often.
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