[Gelford]

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haz, good points, however I think you may be overlooking something.... the whole fact that the original raiser is UTG gives us the problem that he is for the most part only goign to be raising fairly premium hands ...

if we start 3betting a UTG raiser with much more marginal hands we are going to be putting ourselves in very tough spots against very strong hands.

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Well, for one thing, utg raising range is tight, but it does not consist only of AA and KK, there are AQ, KQ, 88 etc ... so you can raise from the btn with speculative hands just to mix it up. Villian is OOP, so he can't really charge you.


But you do not have to raise everyone at the table to project an image, you can start by raising CO when you have the BTN .... or you can raise BTN from one of the blinds.

Basically just the fact that it is not uncommon for you to threebet is noticed and so you can hide your aces.


At uNL noone notices that you do not threebet utg, they just notice that you 3bet a lot.

At 200NL and higher, you will have to balance your game, but there UTG is not as tight as you might think, as he also has to balance his game and to metagame and shania plays start to appear, but that is nothing to be worried about at uNL.