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So the bottom line is that

So the bottom line is that the more competent your opponent is, the more diverse and balanced your range needs to be in an array of situations. The weaker your opponent is, the more unbalanced your range can be simply because they won't be placing you on a range of hands well enough to make good decisions to begin with. This consequently means that if your opponent isn't thinking much beyond their own hand strength, you won't need to worry about balancing your range. Most players in small stakes games and above today will be thinking about ranges, but may not know how to properly balance their own ranges. Micro stake players mostly won't understand either concept, except for the most competent of regulars in your games. For that reason you can keep a mostly unbalanced range against those kinds of opponents, and play as exploitative as possible.

Balancing Flop Textures

Balancing Flop Textures When you look to balance your hand range, there are two primary concepts you're using in order to fool your opponents into making the worst possible decision. You're playing a range of different strength hands in the same way, and that consequently means you'll have to play the same strength hand in various different ways in order to properly add that balance. That means if you flop a set, you're not always check / calling. Some percentage of the time you're leading at the flop (donking into the pre-flop raiser). Another percent of the time you'll be check-raising. When you're first learning to balance your range, you're going to be focusing on board texture, and your opponent’s likely equity versus your hand in order to take the highest initial EV line. It's something you assume you'd always want to do of course, but what the highest EV line is begins to change the more sophisticated your opponents become.