Pre-flop ranges for games with small and big antes?
I've recently been playing in ante games and have been struggling to adjust my strategy specifically pre-flop. I know that in general you want to be wider, but does anyone know where to find pre-flop charts for ante games? If not, is there is any software that specializes in this kind of thing? For reference the ante games I play in range from 1/5 of a BB to 1/2 of a BB. The latter of course creates a ton of dead money and I am not sure to what extent I need to be adjusting my ranges.
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You can use tournament charts as a proxy. There's usually antes in those.
Just remember to account for cash game rake by dumping a few of the worst hands from the chart.
Different people will have different takes, mine is that you don't need to be wider just raise more (4-5x instead of 2-3) to account for the initial pot size. The easiest adjustment you should look for is stealing blinds in cutoff and button and developing a better blind defense and blind vs blind game. These are the easiest adjustments to counteract an ante and they are skills and strategies that play well in reg games as well.
