Quote Originally Posted by daven View Post

why? you're winning at a decent clip. Is it cos you think a higher vpip is cooler or sexier? or is it cos you think that you could be making more money? i don't understand why you think this is too tight. This will increase or not as you make changes, don't make this the focus in and of itself though
First reason: I often regret not playing certain hands. Not because I go "OMG I folded 4-8 and the flop is 5-6-7" but because I see so much stupid shit it's unbelievable. And I could exploit it for €€€, with a little bit of extra courage.
Second reason, possibly a very dumb one: fun. I'm not playing to buy food. I play because it's fun and MAYBE in a distant future I'll get some extra €€€ on top of it. Gradually adding more hands to my ranges would provide more fun.

agree. How are you going to do this though? by stealing more? isolating more in lp vs limpers? 3betting more vs things like cutoff steals and isos?
Definitely stealing more.
Also, I'll probably try to gradually increase my 3-bet with marginal hands that play well against all the Kx Qx garbage they play at this level.


as you make changes to your game, your 3b% will increase. Your goal shouldn't be 'to increase 3b%', your goal should be to identify ways (spots/ranges) to broaden your 3b% profitably.
My main concern here is to avoid being too predictable. Probably not a significant issue at this level. And probably it will change naturally when I'll have to adapt to everyone folding to my 7% 3bet.


yep, but it's better than calling too often vs 3bets which is what a lot of people do.


agree. So what to do about it? identify hands that play well out of position vs wide ranges, and call with some of these. Identify ranges that are good to 3b vs wide ranges, and 3b with some of these. There. Sorted.
I'll start working on these two.