Hello,
I think we had a very nice coaching yesterday. Thanks for listening!
Let's review the most interesting questions and hands which occured in the coaching:
I usually raised 4BB on very position, but I felt so committed on the flop. Now I'm doing 3BB and it feels better 
Should I raise early more?
I have to admit that I never made experiments with a 3BB raise. but since SSS started with 3bb + 1 per limper it should be ok.
What you have to consider here is however that you can't exactly play like with a 4bb raise. you will have to be tighter when you get reraised since there is less money in the pot. so take care of your reststack to raise ratio.
Or you will have to play b/f more often on the flop if you make a cbet and get raised for example.
I myself always consider the potsize on the flop when beeing called before i make a raise. So if I only have like 13BB in early I would be commited on many flops anyway. even if I hit nothing. so I will make a direct push then.
thats why I'm not very often commited (unimproved) on the flop after I made a normal raise.
I think its normal that you reduce the raising range of an opponent that raises from early, do you reduce it again when there where limpers in front of him, like utg1+2 limp and he makes an 6bb raise?
If there where UTG limpers and UTG2/MP1 raises I will give him the same range as usual. if I play BSS e.g., I raise the same range in these situations.
Where you have to reduce the range is when opponents raise from late postition. Their FI range will be looser than the range against limpers.
But in most situations the deviations from a FI UTG/early MP and a raise against limpers are not very grave. But of course its useful to keep eyes open here.
How many hands do you set as "minimum" to reraise him on stats?
I haven't got a general answer here. But in many situations I need at least 50 Hands. Nevertheless I won't take the PFR of these 50 hands in order to determine my reraising range. What I do is to put him on rather standard ranges like loose/tight/passive... (ranges as listed in my equity chart) and then I determine my equity.
Where I like to have much more reads is when Im playing against late postition raises. Values like ATS and FoldBB to steal need much more hands in order to get precise. I like to have like 500 or more here in order to make resteals exactly according to the ATS value.
I dont know if i have asked you the question already last week, but do you really often use sklansky chubukov or only when they defend their blinds? i see no reason to use sc against a player who has 85% fbbs
We talked about SC last week 
But you are totally right. I don't see a reason why to push directly when I have preflop FE.
Only exception is sometimes when I'M sitting in the SB and want to steal FI. Then the BB will call me much looser and I am OOP when I get called.
With a smaller stack I will sometimes push weaker hands like low pps.
Of course I will make some balancing pushs.
Another tip: take care of the postflop scores of your opponent. If you see that he folds very often to a cbet or has a very low WTS you can still make normal steals against looser players since you will get postflop value then through your succesful cbet.
BUt as I said last week, always consider your own postflop skills. If you have leaks there, than its of course no fault to play according to SC with trouble hands.
Do you ever push first in from other positions?
Yes I do. With reduced stack. (see question 1 and the sample hands)
What range do you give to a mp3 fi Raise, considering his pfr and ATS. something like the average?
I think that you will of course have to combine these two values. How to do this can be different of course.
I myself like to take a look at both values and then I try to think of reasonable ranges (I do so since I use my equity chart and since I play BSS, too. Thats why I always think about how I would play in my opponents situation)
If you want to hear exact values here I can just say that taking the average is a bit to loose. the raising ranges don't grow linear from MP3 to BU. You could only then use the average. Maybe calculate the average an then discount it a bit.
BUt i can only recommend to consider different ranges and not only the stats. However you need some experience here. The "something like the average" method is quite good tough.
What reraise range do you give to your opponent according to your own raising position. in general i would say 1/3 of his pfr. how to you modify this rate considering a raise by yourself from ep or mp or late(not FI).
I don't like 1/3 of his PFR. Again I consider reasonble ranges with regard to the stats I get.
If I'm raising UTG and another SSSP reraises me I could give him KK+ (if he plays correct against my AK, JJ+ range) So I try to give him a range he should have (meaning only one where he has an edge against mine)
But thats very idealistic of course. Many other SSSPs don't play accordingly.
And BSS don't do so, too. even the good ones... I often see them reraising my EP raises with TT or AQ.
Very though question. I can only tell you how I do. I use my equity chart
One example:
lets take NL 200, since we can ignore the blinds/rake here. on higher limits we need another pot odds calculation since the blinds overcompensate the rake.
I'm raising AKo from early with 8$.
My stack is 32 $. I get a reraise. I get 3:1 stack to raise so I need 37.5% equity to call.
Now I take a look at the AKo row and compare it to the different ranges.
I can see that even against JJ+, Ak I can call here. and this range is very realistic for many bss. often they will be looser.
So I will call here unless I get reraised by a 10/2 player or a SSSP where I know that he is reraising me according to equity (KK+)
If my raise would be from MP or later i would of course go all-in since my opponents will be much looser.
Lets take TT from MP with a 40$ stack.
I get 4:1 after a reraise so I need at least 40% equity to call/push.
I can only call if my opponent reraises at least TT and AQ.
And now I compare this range to the stats I get and decide wether its possible or not.
here my opponent should have at least a 10-12 pfr. best is of course a read.
the 1/3 rule is just to unaccurate. imagine a 19/16 player with an immense ATS like 45. Now the 16 PFR consists of many FI stealraises. with 1/3 we would get something like 99/AQ as reraising range. But we can't be very sure here.
Unfortunately PT doesn't provide a reraising range.
Just visit my coaching and I will try to show my way of playing against reraises according to my chart.
Sample Hands follow soon.
