Quote Originally Posted by mcatdog
Quote Originally Posted by al yell
you're not necessarily trying to profit directly from opening small PP UTG.
Playing -EV hands from UTG at 100NL just to balance your range sounds like a waste of time and profit.
it might be a mistake to undervalue its importance. Plus, if you want to talk statistics, at a shorthanded table if you're dealt a pair you are almost always ahead PF. Anyone calling with worse is going to miss the flop roughly 70% of the time. +EV imo.