I allways limp UTG

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I don't agree with that -- it's perhaps the mark of most decent, solid players, but from my experience, the best pro players aren't that predictable.


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I guess it depends on stack depth, aggression level of the game, and whether it's online or live (yay culture clash!), but I can't believe that, even for an extremely talented player, the distribution of hands that he or she plays UTG is not significantly restricted compared to the distribution that he or she plays from other positions. I qualified my comment with "usually" to try to capture the sense of a restricted probability distribution while keeping my post terse.

Would you say that the best no limit players fail to significantly reduce the range of hands that they play UTG? Do you think that this is a benefit to their game, or a narcissistic luxury that they pay for in EV?

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My comment didn't refer to a player's relative hand selection at UTG vs his hand selection at other positions. I was responding to this statement:

"When a strong NL player voluntarily enters a pot UTG, there aren't a lot of hands they could usually have."

What I intended to convey was that in my games, the best players don't necessarily have such a restricted set of hands UTG. I think this is, in part, why they are so difficult to play against.