[Landon_McFly]

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Remember though.....everything you really do is dependent on your opponent...not on some pregame gameplan.

Yugoslav

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True that. within the first 10 hands I can usually classify my opponent as tight or loose. MOST OF THE TIME (with a few exceptions) I take on the opposite role. If I can tell they are trying to play tight, I act like a maniac, and will make large flop raises that so many players view as a bluff.

One point that my roommate pointed out is that since I play so much better than them postflop, why do I need to raise so much preflop? I completely see what he's thinking, but the way I look at it is that when I put pressure on them by raising 4BBs with hands like 10-8, and the flop is 8 high, they love to try to pick up the pot with Ace high. One reraise later they're feeling like "screw it it's only 10 bucks".

How do you feel about the 4BB raise from the SB in the early levels?(I rarely use the 5BB raise in the BB)