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Old 10-06-2006, 03:19 PM
CybrPunk CybrPunk is offline
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Default Re: Varying the size of your opening raises - useful or waste of time?

There's two schools of thought on this....

Dan Harrington states that you should vary your raises so that villains can't catch on.

Barry Greenstein says you should always raise the same amount so that villains can't catch on.

Two very successful players with differing ideas and strategies. Can you say which one is right and which is wrong?

I can't.

Personally, I prescribe to the Barry school of thought that playing your hands in a consistent manner regardless of the holding makes it most difficult. Even using randomness to mixup your play can often be influenced by the subconscious mind, so is it really that random?

I think the real answer is going to be different for a lot of people. There really isn't a correct answer here, if you ask me.
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