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Originally Posted by King of the North
Hi Matthew,
Are you unhappy only with parts of your suggested preflop range, or all of it? If the former, what parts are you unhappy with? (no reason needed)
Do you have a concrete list of updated opening ranges?
Would i be fine using your opening ranges from each position, and tweak the cold-calling ranges and 3-bet ranges?
I like the logic behind the ranges, it just turns out pre-flop doesn't model well with "polarized" ranges so the ranges that came out weren't likely very good. That becomes more true as people call 3-bets and 4-bets more. When I originally made them people called 3-bets and 4-bets less and the ranges were probably a lot better in practice than they are now.
Opening range from each position:
MP: AA-22,AKo-ATo,KQo-KJo,QJo,AKs-A2s,KQs-K7s,QJs-Q9s,JTs-J9s,T9s-T8s,98s-97s,87s-86s,76s,65s,54s
CO: AA-22,AKo-ATo,KQo-KJo,QJo,AKs-A2s,KQs-K7s,QJs-Q9s,JTs-J9s,T9s-T8s,98s-97s,87s-86s,76s,65s,54s
BTN: AA-22,AKo-A2o,KQo-K8o,QJo-Q9o,JTo-J9o,T9o-T8o,98o,87o,AKs-A2s,KQs-K2s,QJs-Q2s,JTs-J6s,T9s-T6s,98s-96s,87s-86s,76s-75s,65s-64s,54s-53s,43s (probably too wide in theory I think but who knows)
SB: Just wrote 3 articles on this. If you want to get more advanced you should develop a limping range here as well but now you're dealing with multiple ranges which most people don't like to do.
I apparently accidentally saved over my UTG in flopzilla, but it's probably this or so (made it in 5 seconds):
AA-55,AKo-ATo,KQo-KJo,AKs-A8s,A5s-A3s,KQs-KTs,QJs-QTs,JTs-J9s,T9s,98s,87s
I don't want to go on a huge tangent but if you make the opening size bigger than hands like KJo I think get worse (as calling ranges get stronger) and hands like 76s get better (as you have more fold equity pre-flop and more robust equity for when you do get called). But that's just a general guideline I try to follow and not concrete or anything.
The 3-betting ranges are going to be what needs the most tweaking. Check out the CO ranges I posted earlier to get a general idea of what I'm doing now and remember the cold calling range in the BB depends drastically on the opening size.