Phil Gordon's Little Green Book - Preflop Open Amount ... Wha?!

[vapourtrail]

Hi Guys,

Found something very puzzling in the Green Book.

He advocates the following:

When open-raising preflop, you should raise to a larger amount while in LATE position. ex: open for 3BB UTG, while open for 4.5BB on button.

I was hoping to get some discussion on this. I feel like this is completely backwards...

1) When in EP, you can negate positional disadvantage by getting more money in as early as possible. In the degenerate case where you are all-in preflop, obviously there is no positional disadvantage.

2) When in EP, I don't really mind simply picking up a small pot with muscle, rather than playing tough spots on late streets OOP.

3) When in LP, I don't mind getting called by the blinds as much, as my opponent is then playing bigger pots OOP.

4) When raising less from LP, I also get better odds for stealing the blinds.

Ok, anyways, was wondering if *i* am the one who has been playing backwards... That passage in the Gordon book really caught my eye and am wondering what you guys think ... Thanks a lot , and GL ...