When you open raise from utg6max, there are 5 players yet to act that could have good hands. Your opening range should reflect this vulnerability; if your range is too wide you'll end up facing many 3 bets and 4 bets that you cannot profitably continue against.
If your range is sufficiently strong from utg, I would think that adhering to minimum defense frequency is a mistake.
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So if i raise to 3BB, get 3! to 9BB and have to defend 1/3 of my range, i will design a 4! range and a flatting range and not adapt these ranges to whether he 3! 5% or 15% and only look at what my original raising range is. Is that correct or am i missunderstanding here?
Ok lets do worst case scenario:
raise 3bb, HJ 3 bets 9bb, folds around.
Since the ability to stand up to such action is, or should be, built into our utg opening range for the reasons above, I'm not going to adhere to minimum defense with my range. Here's what I do here:
opening range: 55+, A2s+, A5o, ATo+, K9s+, KQo, QTs+, J9s+, T9s, 98s, 87s. This range contains 224 combos and is 16.89% of starting hands.
after the 9bb 3bet, we're getting 13.5:6. 6/19.5 = 30.77% investment. So the question is which hands can realize 30.77% equity or more?
Well we're out of position so raw equity calculators will not tell us which hands are profitable, but if we assume that the positional advantage is worthy of a 10% shift in equity then we can get somewhere. Note that giving 5% equity to my opponent results in a 10% shift:
Pretend that the 3 bettor has this 3 betting range:
JJ+, AQs+, AKo, A5s, KQs. I think this is pretty strong; 52 combos; 3.92% of starting hands.
These are my raw equities:
A5o: 30% = fold
ATo: 31.5% = fold
AJo: 31.6% = fold
AQo: 35.6% = very close, I'd call.
KQo: 27% = fold
K9s: 29% = fold
KTs: 30% = fold
KJs: 30% = fold
KQs: 32% = fold
A2s: 33% = fold
A3s: 33.5% = fold
A4s: 33.8% = fold
A5s: 34.5% = very close, I'd fold
A6s: 33.8% = fold
A7s: 34.25% = meh, fold
A8s: 34.3% = fold
A9s: 34.3% = fold
ATs: 35.1% = very close, I'd call.
55: 37.3% = I'd call.
87s: 31.7% = fold
98s: 31% = fold
T9s: 30.9% = fold
JTs: 31.2% = fold
QJs: 30.6% = fold
KQs: 32.15% = fold
That leaves my continuing range as 55+, AQo+, ATs+, which is 100 combos.
100/224 = 44.6% of my range.
Since HJ is risking 9 to win 4.5? Your minimum defense frequency is 1/3, (9/13.5 = 2/3) then I'm calling more than enough to keep from having to fold too much.