Varying your preflop open-raise in NLH depending on position.

[Whitefox]

I play 6-max NL games daily online and I have a habit of always raising pot(3.5BB) if I open with a raise. Most ppl make a 4BB raise and some do a 3BB.

Wouldn't it be a good idea to start raising smaller in EP and more in LP? If you do get called when you raised from EP the other player usually have position on you trueout the hand(if he ain't in the blinds) but if your LP raise gets called you are usually the one with position.

It would be like when you build pots with strong hands but try to keep them small with mediocre. It's the same concept but you build the pot when you have good position insted of when you have good cards.

[RobNottsUk]

In his Lil' Green Book Phil Gordon advocates precisely that. Saying as he has a strong hand when playing in ep, he wants action with it.

But at lower stakes, usually the complaint is of too much action, not too little, and may be charging opponents full price for outdrawing you by catching the flop makes sense.

In late position, you are playing more hands, therefore raising with more weaker hands, the more you charge yourself to attempt to take the blinds, the higher your success frequency must be to be profitable. That argues for smaller raises when in late pos, so folding to re-raises isn't too expensive, and not building such a large pot with marginal hands.

[formula72]

RAISE SMALL POT HANDS IN EARLY POSITION AGAINST PLAYERS WHO CALL TOO MUCH POSTFLOP. RAISE BIG POT HANDS IN LATE POSITION AGAINST PLAYERS WHO FOLD TOO MUCH POST FLOP.

Small Pot Hands, AK, AQ
Big Pot Hands, any pairs

[RobNottsUk]

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RAISE BIG POT HANDS IN LATE POSITION AGAINST PLAYERS WHO FOLD TOO MUCH POST FLOP.
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Big Pot Hands, any pairs

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Can you explain why you need to wait for a "big pot" hand, against an opponent who folds too frequently on the flop (implies tends to call to catch flops, but then play weak-tight as bets grow)?