Pre flop Range
At the online micros, are you guys balancing your preflop openings? I don't play much PLO (just the free rolls) but just out of habit I find myself open raising UTG or 3betting hands like 4h5h6s7s to try to build some opening weakness into my ranges, and then it hit me. Virtually every 3bet I ever make gets called, multi-way at that, no matter how seemingly tight I'm playing relative to the sample of hands my opponents have observed. And open raises virtually always get called as well. Do I even need preflop semi-bluffs at these stakes?
Edit: Blind steals aside
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that is a very NLH thinking. You do not need 3 bet or open "bluffs" at any stakes, you need to 3 bet more than just aces. 3 betting pre is not polarised like in no limit holdem.
And depending on opponent tendencies, game, stakes, stacks, and what not you need to adjust your 3 betting range to include more or less hands, but all of them are good, none are weak or bluffs. So you might add 8765ds or even ss, definitely QJT9, JT98, etc
