Every pair now opens — set-mining pays at 200bb. AJo goes: it makes second-best hands in the pots that matter.
Implied odds arrive. Every pocket pair and connected suited hand gains; weak offsuit broadways start bleeding reverse implied odds and get trimmed first.
Early position opens into seven or eight players. Tightness here is not timidity — it is respect for how often someone behind wakes up with position and a hand.
Assumes a live-standard open to ~4bb, raise-or-fold. In straddled games, halve your effective big blinds and read the chart at that depth.