hand ranges

[keith1174]

I see lots of posts that talk about well this is your opponents range of hands. Is there a chart here on 2+2 that has that. I do have sklanskys book on no limit hold em theory and practice and see there is a chart for hand ranges but that is in the section of all in preflop raises. Is this the same chart that is used for giving your opponent a range of hands post flop or is there a seperate chart that says UTG and UTG+1 should be these hands. MP should be these hands and LB and Button should be playing these hands.

[Acein8ter]

Hand ranges vary from person to person... TAG - LAG - SLAG, etc... You need to observe your opponent and the moves that he/she makes for a little while before you can really put someone on a range of hands. That's why it's much harder to play unknown players vs players that you have history with.

[PantsOnFire]

There is no chart that I know for the reason that it is all very situational.

If you take the chart in NLTAP or HOH or most holdem books, you can consider them a baseline. And this baseline ueually means solid tight play with deep stacks.

Most players are more loose than this, so you can add some hands to them at all positions (be careful though, some players play the book early but are more lose in CO and button). If we are talking about tournament play, the rising blinds cause more looseness in just about everybody. Sometimes big stacks can be either extra loose or extra tight. Rocks and grannies have a very small range. As well, your own table image may affect how loose a player will play against you (although in this case, you need to be up against an observant opponent).

I know this is another "it depends" answer. But the real answer is you take the basic chart and apply it to the situation and the player. Only experience, study and time at the table will allow you to do this in the heat of battle.

And you do have to realize that most people can analyze hands while sipping on a cafe latte at home a lot better than they can apply it at the poker table when facing a bet for their entire stack. Well at least for me anyways

[tsearcher]

You can play around with this program: http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/showfl...art=1&vc=1. Also, download pokerstove and play around with that.

[MrX5000]

There's a nice section in Harrington on Holdem either volume 1 or 2. Check it out at Borders or something. it starts out with the range of hands to open the pot from different positions, then goes into detail with 3 other possible common scenerios.

1) 3 limpers in front of you
2) A raise from seat 3
3) A raise and a re-raise in front of you...etc

Another reference you may want to check is Skalansky's Gap principal. Which basically says whatever hand you would normally open the pot with in your position is weaker with a raise or even sometimes a limper in front of you.

Understanding Skalansky's Gap principal and the examples in harrington's Book will give you a general idea of range in hands preflop...