[Nichomacheo]

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Now that you’ve got a handle on preflop raise sizes, we can talk about the difference in preflop hand values. In the 25-50 level a lot of hands that were valuable to raise in previous levels will go down in value. Hands like suited connectors (56s, 78s) go down in value as the stack to blind ratio goes down. These are speculative hands and the main advantage of these speculative hands is the implied odds that you have with them. Your implied odds go down as the blind-stack ratio becomes smaller, meaning hands that make top pair are going to be going up in value while lower-card hands that need to make flushes, straights and two pair hands are going to go down in value.

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Would people advise not to raise these hands at all when the stacks are 20-30bb range? I'm talking about the medium suited connectors, 1 gaps, 2 gaps. On the flop, if the BB calls, the pot will be 6 bb, you'll have like 22 left. You'll miss a lot of flops and have to fire a c-bet of 4. Now the pot is 10bb + 4 if your opponent calls. Does the times you win big pots offset all the small and medium sized pots you'll hit a monster/draw out?