just a question...

[WHITEBOYAEHS]

hey i have just been wondering...do you guys loosen your pf raising requirements when there are OOP posters? are there any previous posts on this? just a thought. any and all commentary welcome!

[jesse8888]

In live limit games I'm very likely to loosen my requirements if there is extra blind money posted. In fact, I have a specific example from just last week...

Guy on my right missed his blinds, then came back to pay them in the cutoff. One limper in MP, he checks, and I raise from the button with A8s. I would have just tossed it were it not for the extra poster. BB calls, so does MP, but CO folds. After I drag a tiny pot with a pair of 8s, CO laments that he folded 92o and would have flopped two pair.

Comments on my play welcome. This was at a live, loose 6/12 game.

[MaxRaises]

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In live limit games I'm very likely to loosen my requirements if there is extra blind money posted. In fact, I have a specific example from just last week...

Guy on my right missed his blinds, then came back to pay them in the cutoff. One limper in MP, he checks, and I raise from the button with A8s. I would have just tossed it were it not for the extra poster. BB calls, so does MP, but CO folds. After I drag a tiny pot with a pair of 8s, CO laments that he folded 92o and would have flopped two pair.

Comments on my play welcome. This was at a live, loose 6/12 game.

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A8s on the BTN is a very strong hand. I'm a Live TAG and I would definitely at least limp the BTN with that. In your situation I would have made the exact same play.

Your table sounds like it was loose passive, which in my opinion is a dream LHE table.

[WHITEBOYAEHS]

lol nice....im talking about nl cash...like say ure utg with 65s or something...(i usually open connectors 89s and up utg) but like someone posted dead small+big blinds...do you loosen?

[drzen]

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lol nice....im talking about nl cash...like say ure utg with 65s or something...(i usually open connectors 89s and up utg) but like someone posted dead small+big blinds...do you loosen?

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In that case, I don't see why you would. Is 98s a bet and a half more profitable than 65s? Surely you're only raising 98s for Shania anyway, so it's not a factor here.

[WHITEBOYAEHS]

it just seemed to me that there would be some mathematical merit with more dead $ in the pot...so im completely barking up the wrong tree here?

[deucethree]

nothing wrong with attacking dead money (just don't get carried away).

[Bang584]

At the right table I will, but since raising the OOP poster looks like a steal attempt, I prefer to have a hand when I raise.

[WHITEBOYAEHS]

i know...im just saying with like lesser hands but still playable ones... i guess its just a trial and error thing

[creedofhubris]

Your thinking is good. Poker is fundamentally a battle for the blinds, after all, and an extra big blind adds 66% more to the mix.