This whole "don't call UTG raises" needs to stop

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Is starting to really wear on me. The funny thing about this phenomena is that practically every TAG that I play against, or LAG too, has the same UTG and MP opening ranges. So if in your strategy posts you say "fold preflop, QJs plays [censored] against an UTG open from a 18/16" then you damn well better be saying the same thing if a guy opens in MP.

If you aren't then don't give people flack for calling an UTG raise with 109s if you instacall and see a flop in middle position.

Group middle position and UTG the same, and the cutoff and the button the same, because they together are much more similar.

I've been tracking this preflop stuff and all these 2+2 people are opening 108s UTG now, as well as 108s in MP. They don't adjust their play any differently in the one hole or the two hole, just as they get ridiculously loose in the cutoff and ridiculously loose on the button.

Also don't go into super nit mode if a TAG opens UTG, a guy calls in the cutoff/button,etc. and you are in the blinds and debating a squeeze just because the guy opened UTG. I see strategy post after strategy post where a guy says, "I'm running TAGish around 19/16. I open UTG to $8 with 108 suited, button calls, BB calls." If you are in the blinds get over the phobia of always beleiving the UTG guy has a big hand. He does occasionally but a lot of the time squeeze that [censored] because you will be picking up the $8,the $8, and the blinds because he can' call $38 with a suited connector if he has a $200 stack if he has a brain.

So basically these TAG UTG opening ranges are wide and are starting to mesh into the cutoff and button more so than they are nittying it up and folding lots of connectors and offsuit/suited broadways up front. Adjust your play to it or else you'll be out like broomcorn's uncle from Super System.