Preflop ranges in very loose games
Posted by Icarus
Posted by Icarus posted in Low Stakes
Preflop ranges in very loose games
The title kind of says it all. But let me be a little more specific. Imagine the following 6-max game:
- Table with many very loose passive players:
- most villains play almost every hand, mostly by limping (say the fold bottom 20%-30%)
- villains (mostly) do not fold to preflop raises, to isolation raises or to 3-bets
- most villains cold call behind to isolation raises or 3bets
- As a consequence, all flops are multiway, most of them 4 or 5 handed!
- Postflop some villains play fit or fold (and understand relative hand strength), others are more sticky/stationy and some others stabby if it looks like nobody wants the pot
So, given the above conditions:
- In general, what ranges/type of hands would you play? What VPIP/PFR/3bet would you expect to have?
- How much are you tightening up with respect to your default/no reads play?
- Do you still mainly enter pots by raising (ISO, 3-bets, open raise) or do you develop a wide limping/overlimping preflop range given that nobody folds preflop?
- Where do your expect your money/edge to come from in a heavily-raked table like the one described above?
In case the above is still too vague/general, imagine you are in the CO, both UTG and HJ limp before you:
-What is your iso range ($4b5 / $3b10i / $fi15 / $fi30, other)? (please remember that you will very likely get cold call behind by one or more players and the limpers won't fold preflop, so the flop will end up 4 or 5-way most of the times)
-What is your overlimping range if any?
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