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Ok, so in a hypothetical, you're now seated at a table with Greenstein, Harrington and Raymer.

Do you honestly think you have a chance raising 2x or 3x every time you are first in a pot? Probably not a chance in heck. You have to deviate simply to make it harder for these better players to read you. But that is not to say that you vary simply by varying the size of the raise. You also vary by not raising, or changing the hands that you enter the pots with.

But in another scenario where you're seated with 3 Dickey Donks there is hardly a need to use so much deception with an opening raise, or with slowplays or the range of hands that you play. Why bother using tricks when they aren't needed to get it done?

Also, just watching Raymer or any other player for a short period of time in a single tournament is a very small sample and is probably not indicative of his overall play.