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Originally Posted by Sofistika
Question on preflop hand chart: It recommends that Utg 4 bet range would be AA, 98s,87s,76s. So if i understanding correctly you should just choose just one of theese s.conectors because if you choose to use this exact hole range which is 1.4 % then only 0,5%(AA) could call 5 bet and its only ~35percent and we know we need that at least 54-60% of our range could call 5bet.
The hand chart was just to give you a general understanding of pre-flop play and isn't meant to be strictly followed. It also gets less effective as people stop playing a "re-raise or fold" game, as they have now at the higher limits.
So let's stick with UTG opening and getting 3-bet in the CO to showcase why pre-flop is impossible to solve. We have a few options of hands we can 4-bet "for value."
1) Pocket Aces -- This hand is obvious since it's the best possible hand, but it may be so strong we want to slowplay it since we're not particularly vulnerable to being outdrawn on the flop.
2) Pocket Kings -- This hand doesn't particularly love giving free flops to the opponent when he 3-bet bluff AXs, but it will not work very well as a 4-bet if the opponent is mostly just 3-betting AA/KK/AKs for value. Yet it's probably a good 4-bet if the opponent is 3-betting AA-QQ/AK and a bunch of bluffs.
3) Pocket Queens -- Very vulnerable to giving free flops to the opponent's 3-bet bluffs (since many will have an ace or king in them), but not strong enough to 4-bet effectively for value.
4) Ace-King -- This hand doesn't want to give free flops to our opponent when he was 3-bet bluffing, but if we 4-bet too many AK our opponent can effectively play against us on boards which don't have an A or K. It also sucks when we get 5-bet. Yet calling allows us to get outflopped or bluffed off the best hand.
To top that off, see my previous post about now emphasizing higher equity hands rather than more robust equity hands. It's really hard to say what's optimal here (i.e., it's impossible) and it almost certainly is a super mixed strategy where some hands are being 4-bet sometimes, called sometimes, and folded others.