[Arjonius]

If you want higher blinds to begin with, why not raise with any two cards when the blinds are tiny,? I'm not talking a huge amount with bad hands, but maybe something like 3BB. Seems like the result would be similar, although not exactly the same.

[xmanpike]

What do you think about this list of guidelines about what hands to play in a NL ring game? My friend has made a lot of money on party NL50 ring tables using more-or-less exactly this preflop strategy, but it seems too tight to me. I play much looser, I'll play just about all the Group 3 and 4 hands from any position, and if it's called around to me, I'll raise with them most of the time in MP-LP. I'll play the unsuited unlisted versions of the group 4 hands in mid-late position also, as well as lower suited connectors and Axs in LP in unraised volume pot. What do you guys think? How do your hand selection strategies match up with this one and mine?

Group 1: Raise these from any position
AA
KK
QQ
AK

Group 2: Limp in, raise in late
AQs
JJ (hands like JJ, 99, and TT can be raised in late with few limpers)

Group 3: Limp in mid-late
AQo
AJs

Group 4: Limp in late
AJo
ATs
KQs
KQo
KJs
QJs
JTs
T9s


Notes:

Small blind hands: (with no raise)
Axs
Any connecting cards in large pots (6 or more limpers)

Pocket Pairs:
Limp pocket pairs from any position, however, any pocket pair under 99
really has no value unless you flop a set.

Hands to stay away from:
Axs (drawing in NL is killer)
A(low, ten and under)
QJo
Kxs (never play this)

Flops seen should be between 12% (cold cards) and 20% (good cards).
14-15% is good.

[mikester47]

that looks like a good chart to me, I used to play limit holdem and used rules very similiar to those, however i emphasized suited connectors more.

[mikeychips22]

Heads up is my speciality. It really doesn't matter how much the blinds are in the beginning. For the low blinds your style works. You have to take advantage in the beginning taking the blinds and nickling and diming your way up. By using this when the higher blinds begin to arrive your opponet has less chips and doesn't know what think of what you have. From there you just got to find your hand or just keep working at his stack. Eventually he will make a mistake and you can easily take it home. Thats my strategy and it is usually very effective. I would say with that I win almost 80 percent of the time. Try it it could work for you