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Originally Posted by Kenji
Hi Janda, first of all, thanks to you for your great books, back then they are true eyeopeners to me and they helped me not just in poker, but also in reallife situations where knowlegde about game theory helps a lot. Playing these days I wonder if I could still use your suggest preflop ranges? E.g. I saw some players using no coldcalling range in mp or sb and just 3bet-fold to an openraise. There are also players that dont openraise from sb and use a limp/call/raise strategy. So, what is the current state-of-the-art for preflop play? Can you suggest any solvers, maybe simple preflop holdem?
Haven't done any solver work myself in probably 2 years.
For pre-flop ranges, I would guess the "optimal" ranges are going to change a lot based on rake (i.e. if you were playing 6-max against 5 GTO opponents, what the optimal ranges are change quite a bit based on cash game with high rake vs tourney with no rake). Also, stack depth will alter them.
If I were to start grinding again, I imagine I'd put much more emphasis on what the general trends are for the games I'm playing and try to make exploitative default ranges (so, I'd probably raise the button too much for example) than worry about the optimal ranges. That's especially because all the pre-flop hands that's aren't a close decision pre-flop are probably going to be kind of obvious, and the non-obvious, close decisions are probably going to be super based on opponent's tendencies for your limit and rake.