Hey,
@Danwan:
I think your Range is flawed. First step should be to find out a better range. Against which sizing is that range? I think 3bb, right?
To find a good range, you have to think about some things. Pot odds preflop, possibility of squeezes from the blinds and a solid MP-Range.
It is not very complicated, to construct ranges, unfortunately this type of GTOish-range-ronstruction is coachingstuff, other people pay for it and dont like it, if I post in detail about it. But some hints should help. I'll show how to built a range but dont post the whole result (but a lot of it
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Villains opens 3bb, we have to pay 3bb to see a flop with 7,5bb pot. We need around 40% Equity to have a profitable call in vacuum.
Against a tight solid MP-Range it looks like that:
Not ready yet. You have to adjust some hands and think about the other factors, squeezes, playabilty HU and MW.
Firstly: Axo are bad hands in terms of playabilty and cant stand raises, just fold A2o-ATo.
You should built range-buckets (low Axo, mid Axo, high Axo for example, low and mid fall into easy fold category) and work group by group and sometimes hand by hand.
But I can show you this principle with the help of some parts of your range:
JJ-33:Groupings:
TT-77 mid pockets ---> solid equity, can stand squeezes sometimes ---> easy call
33-66 low pockets ---> solid equity, but realize bad (often fold the best hand postflop, setvalue is overrated), often cant stand a squeeze ---> Adjust Equty to 85% realization (because of squeezes and reverse implieds multiway) ---> 66 is the borderlinehand, rest fold
JJ ---> 65% Equity, Value3bet/call
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You can create groupings for your own I think, rest of hands:
AQs-ATs, AKo-AQoI think you can call AQo, AJs, because its good
ATs: 3bet because better hands fold, weaker hands call, weaker hands 4bet bluff
AQs: weaker hands call, a lot of Equity fold, weaker hands 4bet bluff
AKo ---> 3bet!
KQs-KTsKQs good as 3bet imo
KJs: if you make it 10 to 3, AQo should fold, AJo fold, KQo fold ---> mabye 3bet
KTs: close between call and fold, because Villain often doesnt have weaker offsuit Tx (12 combos per hand is a lot!)
QJs-QTsQJs call, QTs fold
JTs-J9sJTs call (no 40% equity but thats okay, because good playability, 4 nutstraights)
J9s bad call
T9s, 98s, 87s, 76s, 65sall fold, cant stand squeezes very well, bad equity, often dominated by better draws/pairs.
3betbluffs:
A9s-A2s,AJookay as default, a bit wide if you take hands from your calling range into 3bet range as "semivalue/semibluff-combinations". AJo should be fold (but good for exploit, later)
KQo ---> like AJo
T8s, 97swhy? T8s makes straights on 9JQ (villain may call KTs), 79J okay thats nice, 679 ---> villain often fold lowboards against cbets and 66 77 are not easy calls if make it 10bb vs. 3bb, which is a good sizing I think. Flushes often dominated by better flushes, same for 97s and it is hard to play pairs with that hands, because the pairs are often midpairs with good showdownvalue and not really barrel-hands if you hit a pair.
Better 3bets as bluffs: low suited connectors which are folds against 3bb openraise, they make more straights and nutstraights and are easier to play postflop and callable against small 4bets.
Now you have some arguments for a better 3bet and call-strategy. This strategy is good against all types of opponents whether openraiser or blinds.
Exploits:
Keep in mind that you're not last to act and there are villains in the blinds who are cold4bet a "naturally" range or as exploit if you go wild.
How do you change these ranges vs different type of players:
1. OR is a NIT: adjust MP-Range 12% or something like that and find it out
2. OR has low fold to 3-bet: All hands play well in 3bet pot, mabye add some hands which are close between call and 3bet, like AQo, mabye AJo becomes value. If he 4bet a lot and call a lot, AQo KQo block 4bet-range a bit, I have no idea^^
3. OR has high fold to 3-bet: It is no problem to fold a lot in that spot against 3bets, villain has to be very leaky against 3bets OOP (70%+ fold) to start exploit him by 3betting more (he can fold often, because OOP and blinds have to defend also against your 3bets by cold4bet). I think adding hands from top fold range is the best choice, KQo, AJo, suited gapper, T9s etc.
4. OR has high 4-bet: Against small-4bets no adjustments, just call a lot instead of expensive jam. Against big 4bets depends on fold23bet-stat. If he fold a lot and 4bet a lot with a big sizing, just take crappy blocker combos, which blocks 4bet-bluffs and value4bets, Ax should be fine, call your easy 3bet/calls, like AJs, JJ instead of 3bet.
5. Blinds are passive and calls much: Call more against fishes in the blinds, broadways increase in value (reverse implieds decrease for low pockets but increase for low suited connectors)
6. One of the blinds are aggro: borderline calls go into fold or 3bet range