The pleasure, one of the things to do is trust the process. In Hwang's first book and Bug's articles the main goal about preflop is if you play well preflop it will help set you up to play well post flop. It is a one-two punch. Trust the process about the best preflop hands to play is is the first punch. And in this case, we are talking mostly about hands that make straights, straight draws and redraws on the flop which is the second punch.
You get to the flop with lots of hands that mostly have straight outs to the nuts.
Grab a piece of paper and write down the lowest 0 gap hand you would play. You the same for 1 gap hand and it can be different ranges for if gap is bottom, middle or top. Do same for hands with 2 one gaps, with one 2 gap. Etc. On piece of paper create a short hand that is easy to read and makes sense.
I like writing it as
A--9
K--8
Q--7
J--6
for 2 gap hands I'd play from any position as long as it isn't 2 gaps at top (not talking about suits right now). And when I am playing and highest card in my hand is J and lowest is 6 and I don't have a pair I know it is a play in what setting that range applies. Hwang's book give that type of info. And also over time you can become more positionally aware and lossen up the ranges as you get closer to the button.
A poster from a long time ago named GoGetaRealJob did a nice post about ranges that could be put on a piece of paper and used as a sensible starting point for learn, it might have been for 6-max though but I'll see is I can find and link it so you can get some short hand ideas for writing for this dang game with 16,432 distinct hands.
https://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/3...72/?highlight=
Last edited by September.28; 12-22-2019 at 12:02 AM.