Counterintuitive Strategy

[BigBadBabar]

it's a fullring saw i think [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

[banditdad]

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Where was the maniac seated?

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He was in 6 and I was in 4. He was 2 to my left. And the next looses player was on my immediate right. Does it make a difference

[jt1]

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Where was the maniac seated?


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Does it make a difference

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It makes all the difference in the world!

[Entity]

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Where was the maniac seated?

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He was in 6 and I was in 4. He was 2 to my left. And the next looses player was on my immediate right. Does it make a difference

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Huge difference. You shouldn't be limping trashy SC's here as any decent adjustment by the TAGs on the maniac's left will have them 3betting a wider range of hands than normal leaving you playing SC's in a bloated pot far too often OOP vs lots of flop and turn bets. PP's are fine hands here for implieds (many people don't realize the huge difference in strength of PP vs SC hands here as they just focus on implied odds and not on playability postflop). I'd tend to tighten way up and when you get a HU pot show down pretty much all the time. My VPIP in your post would go down, not up, as I'm going to be folding T9s, JTs, QTo, QJo, etc in EP rather than opening them.