Theory and Practice-Preflop

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I am reading Sklansky and Miller’s No Limit Hold’Em. They advocate not having a standard preflop raise amount. From pg 121 “Preflop raise sizing is important. Don’t listen to pundits that tell you to keep your raises a constant size. Don’t get lazy and just raise the “table standard”. Controlling your raise size intelligently will help you control your opponents, the pot sizes, and many other factors.”

They convincingly detail out the reasons why 4XBB+1BB per caller (or whatever) is not preferable to mixing up preflop raises and if you want details on this you should read the book. But I wonder if this is somewhat a B&M (or tourney) vs multi-tabling online argument. They do not address this issue from a multi-tabling online perspective, which I think offers the strongest reason for having a standard raising amount (simplicity). However, the counter argument would be that if you cannot figure out the right raise amount to get the job done, you are playing too many tables.

I am not sure what I think about this. It seems to me that the typical online player utilizes some standard formula and mixing it up might be yet another way to exploit the typical online player. But it is really nice when 6-tabling or more to be able to fire a standard bet. What do you all think about this?

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