How much do you stick to the preflop guide?

[turaho]

Super easy instamuck. Against a raise and re-raise, the odds of you being dominated (either by a better K/Q or a high pocket pair) is huge.

I think the biggest leap I made in poker ability is finding the discipline to fold marginally strong hands to a raise. I was the guy who cold-called with QTs or AJo (all the while laughing at guys who cold-called with Q3s and A5o). It took a while to take SSHE to heart and stop cold-calling or at least know the right times to cold-call.

You'll be amazed at how much your winrate improves if you just follow that simple rule.

Edited to add that you will never, EVER find a situation where it is cool to call 3 bets cold preflop. If you don't have a hand worth capping (e.g. AA/KK/QQ/AKs), you're not playing that hand, no matter how pretty your cards seemed when they were first dealt.

Muck that KQ, but I usually stick fairly close to the guidelines. The time to deviate is when you're getting good odds in position on hands that can make medium high flushes like, or certain connectors. The other thing is sometimes it's smart to reraise to isolate players who are loose raisers.