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Originally Posted by yasuo
What is the GTO donking range from BB?
Excellent and interesting question that shows the huge difference between how the the small blind and big blind play preflop and postflop. Below are some average numbers that might change several percentage points depending of your stake and rake structure.
Preflop: Hero open raises on the button and the small blind should 3-bet about 10% and cold-call about 3%. Afterwards, the big blind should also 3-bet about 10% however even though the small blind and big blind both are 3-betting about 10% here, the big blind who as already put in a bigger blind preflop and is closing the action will cold-call a lot more than the small blind's 3% and instead the big blind will cold-call about 20%. So SB and BB have about same 3-betting range but huge difference in cold-calling range.
Postflop: Since neither the small blind or big blind 3-bet preflop that means they don't have their strongest hands. But the SB only had a very tight preflop 3% cold calling range and is out of position to two player. A lot of players in real world situation donk-bet here 0% of the time and instead prefer to check-raise. So when you talk GTO or some computer solver output, if you don't also recognize what real world humans are doing you will get it wrong in one direction or another. So in SB real world humans often only use the betting tool of check-raising and not donk-betting here. But GTO will have the SB donk-betting anywhere from 5-10% depending on stakes and rake so split the difference and say SB donk-bets about 7.5%. Now while the SB had a preflop 3% cold-calling range, the BB had a lot larger about 20% cold-calling range. With the SB having already checked postflop the BB should be donk-betting a T73 board a lot. If the BB has some courage and skill, the BB should be donk-betting this T73 board about 1/3 of the time. You read that crap right the BB should be donk-betting about 35% of the time. LOL. Strange but true.