I would like to make a change to the standard 4x + 1 reccomendation.
I think it is very profitbale to vary your raise sizes by position but keep standard by the hand.
At 6max I would open to 4bb UTG and UTG+1, 3.5bb on CO and 3bb on BTN.
The reasoning is as follows. When we are UTG we have a stronger range and a worse position. Both these conditions favour a larger raise (We want more money in pot when we have better hands and we want to discourage callers with position on us)
When we are on the BTN we have a much wider range and anyne who calls us will be OOP. These conditions both suit smaller raise sizes.
I hate varying by hand strength as it is readabale. I may vary by players. E.g. If there is a huge donk who doesnt fold Im gonna open to 5-6bb PF to isolate him with my entire raising range.
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