The first skill in Ed Miller’s — and really, the first skill any poker player needs to master — is having a good pre-flop range.Many poker books for beginners advocate a set range from each position, and their suggestions are usually quite conservative to keep new players out of trouble. We trust you’re savvy enough to know that poker takes a modicum of aggression, and open ranges are not set in stone. You are going to want to play tighter or looser depending on a wide variety of factors including table dynamics, stack size, player images, your comfort and skill level, and the list goes on.Luckily, coach Doug Hull came up with a handy guide to help you with your open range in a variety of positions and situations. Print it up and hang it by your computer screen while you’re grinding online, or download the mobile images at the bottom of the page to take with you on your smartphone to the live poker room. Then Tweet at or and let us know how it’s working out!Download these to your phone for easy viewing at the live card room. These are Ed Miller’s live ranges. He does not distinguish UTG through HJ, he includes them all in one grouping “early position”.
The Poker Hand Range Calculator calculates Texas Hold'em hand ranges from percentage values and vice-versa. All this online and free. Setup a poker range by selecting the hands in the poker hand calculator and share the link which is automatically generated for you.
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See the graphic where “early” and the blinds are listed together. Miller, along with many others, suggests a mostly static opening range early, and more dynamic in late position. Hence he sees no need to list ranges that would very only slightly, if at all.Note that these ranges were designed with relative passive live games in mind. A lot of online players that I’ve seen comment (I play live not online) find the early openings a little too loose for many online games.
I see all the comments about needing to be deep-stacked for these ranges and applying to live cash games. I just joined CORE and would assume that most people in CORE would be online and probably MTT players. Also the lesson and charts on bet-sizings that I‘ve seen yet have many comments that these are meant for live cashgame situations and MTT players use smaller raises/reraises due to stack preservation.
I‘d be quite disappointed if many of the lessons and charts in CORE were not really applicable to online MTTs. Am I missing something or are you planning on creating separate lessons with MTTs in mind for these that are obviously raised/adapted from cashgame books/theory? Actually most of our subscribers are live cash game players, but fear not. 90% of the foundational material in CORE applies to all forms of NLHE and in our discussions of topics such as stack-to-pot ratio we highlight why there are differences between cash game play and tournaments which are typically played shallower. The final third of CORE (L3) specifically looks at both cash game hands and tournament hands when the concepts are elucidated through hand examples. I’d also invite you to join our tournament discussion over in the forum.
Thank you, I will! I do find CORE extremely well structured and the content very valuable and well explained.
I feel that at my current play probably my biggest leaks are opening ranges, i.e. Opening too loose especially from early position, and bet sizing, c-betting too large (standard 1/2 pot on flop, 1/3-1/2 on turn) and leading into pots that are not mine, and was surprised that everything under 1/2 pot was considered underbetting and thought of as rarely being used. But I might be jumping ahead of the course and the lessons to come. And, honestly, with the quality of your content and presentation, I‘ll happily get the extra MTT course once I‘m through CORE, and hope everything else falls into place.