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How strong are those LHE bots in the casinos? I remember them being discussed heavily in 2010 but haven't heard them talked about much since. Has anyone really crushed them?

I definitely agree with deeper stacks utilizing your positional advantage more, but is it really enough to justify starting out in pots significantly smaller on all of your buttons? In a 3bet pot to 9BB you still have very close to enough to go 2/3rds on every street with 100BB stacks. Of course, with a raise on one of those streets this gets in very quickly.

I agree with Tom Coldwell in that I think that the politician match is different than a normal game. In a match where you are just looking to minimize variance as a huge favorite I think that min-raising is definitely the way to go. I think that for a cash game you should just be looking to maximize your EV though.

Would we be unanimously agreeing that opening pot is optimal at 1000BB stacks?

Edit: I had missed the last reply. Is anyone really raise/folding super wide? I think that even at 100BB stacks facing a 3bet you're able to profitably call with the vast majority of your hands.

Also, I meant to address this earlier but I don't think that your opponent being able to call with the weakest of hands is an advantage to min-raising. It isn't like he has any obligation to call with worse hands - he is only doing it because he is getting better pot odds. If anything, I think that this is a disadvantage of opening smaller.