[Zybomb]

This has been brought up once before (by me) for discussion.

The basic concept is that certain hands are ideal for big pots while others arent.

Hands like AK AQ etc generally dont win a big pot, as chances are if your ahead the high cards scare off players and if you arent you donk your chips to a hand which outdrew you. He advocates raising less with these hands (as you want to keep KJ AT and other dominated hands in the pot to pay you off

Hands like middle pairs he advocates raising more, and even gives an example of how adjusting your PFR from $30 to $60 (in $5 $10 blinds) could mean the difference between 300 dollars and your opponents entire stack, 1K!

Its a solid theory, but like most, has its holes... the biggest of which are that you give away your hands by raising these amounts too often. In addition, he doesnt address raising big with a middle pair when you MISS the flop (as you will 7 out of 8 times...even say you flop an overpair 1 out of 8 so 6 out of 8 times) and waste money or be forced to make a CB of twice as much as you would have otherwise. IN addition by underraiising with AK or AQ type hands, you're inviting connectors, one gappers etc into the pot cheapily, and risk tougher decisions if you flop top pair with your hand.

I like making a standard raise with any hand. It keeps my opponnts guessing and doesnt reveal anything about my hand.

Online this is 4x BB + 1x BB per limp

Live it depends on the table:

In Vegas the PFRs were generally a little smaller than I'm used to, so I opened for 25 on most occassions. Occassionally I went as low as 20, and other times I went to 30

When I go to AC/Foxwoods it is generally the same as when I play live here in NY. Standard raise of $30-$40 I'll mix it up (2/5, 5/5 , 5/5)