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Originally Posted by Cashcid Linc
what i mean is how is this range unexploitable when we know snowie can only have one of the three hands and never has an ace a king or a queen? We never have to be worried about running into a set on non 9 T or J boards or into straights flushes etc on certain boards and we can put pressure on Ace king high boards etc. I mean here i can see it just simply calls down at certain frequency, still though, especially us knowing where we stand on certain boards seems weird
I agree, and that does affect the EV of our range on boards we'll have post flop if our range is substantially narrow. I'm more of the opinion you should add in multiple hands at a mixed frequency. I think basically there are hands that are +EV calls, and then you can only have so many hands before you open yourself up to exploitation facing 3-bets. As a result, you have X number of hands that are clear +EV flats, and then can choose Y number of combinations of hands that end up being ~0 EV, but end up increasing the EV of your range post flop in many situations. The Y combinations you choose from should be from various "hand rankings", for example, rather than play all JTs, play two combos of JTs and two combos of 54s.
Anyways, snowie's default flatting range there isn't far off from optimal still, as I personally wouldn't be flatting in that spot almost at all. Even if our opponent knows we have one of very few combos, if our range is so strong it's still tough for them to play against us and this is more true if we are in position as well. It isn't as though they can simply c-bet OOP with a 100% frequency on basically any board.
It should be noted that stack sizes play a significant role in what are range is in the situation you described, and I would not be surprised if one of players in the blinds/behind us was <20bb.