Re: Play a Hand With the Masters #1
I just open for 450. With stacks this deep an opening raise is just about sending a message that you have a raising hand. An extra 100 or 200 raise just isn't going to keep anyone from playing their hand because it represents like 1% or less of their stack. By not raising more you keep the pot smaller and end up having to invest less chips when you bet on subsequent streets.
If I wasn't on the button or there were multiple limpers, I might raise more to try to limit the number of people seeing the pot and to try to buy the button but that isn't the case here.
I don't like limping here because villains won't take your subsequent bets as seriously, you don't give the blinds a chance to fold, and you gain no information as to the strength of someone elses hand if they choose to raise preflop.
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