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Message: [QUOTE="Four Dogs, post: 639856, member: 2668"] What we can gather from this is that Chris holds position in very high regard. We see that overall he puts money into the pot about 20% of the time from all positions but as his position improves his standards for opening hands loosens considerably. In general he's only opening with premium hands, for the most part better than top 10%. In fact, in over 1300 hands I haven't found an instance where he's shown down an unpaired starting hand worse than AJs, or 88 for paired hands. I'd say his standards for opening hands fall into 4 categories. The blinds. early position (which to him is anything farther than 2OB) then 1 and 2 OB, and finally the button. What he's looking for as he approaches the button are hands he can steal with but that will stand up to a call, preferably from the blinds. You might see hands as bad as KJo in these positions. For paired hands, the worst I've seen is JJ 3OB and 99 2OB, but because of the lower paired hands from earlier postions I'd be willing to believe he's playing paired hands down to as low as 77. Haven't seen it yet though. Now for the button. He no longer fears an OP call. Regardless of his hand, he will have position for all remaining betting rounds. He's now playing a whopping 29% of all his hands. I know that doesn't sound very high, but for Chris that's super loose. In fact, that's actually a whopping high nuber for anyone if you remove all the hands where someone in EP has opened with a raise. He doesn't often call these which means that in order for him to have a vp$ip of close to 30% he really must be playing any 50% hand. He's shown down pairs as low as 66 and unpaired hands down to 98o. Now for the blinds. Given the right pot odds, he'll call from the blind with any hand. Iv'e seen all pairs down to 22 and unpaired hands down to 75o. I have more to say on this subject, but I've got to run. I'll be back later. [/QUOTE]

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