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Originally Posted by Unguarded
22-33 have printed money in the HJ in the hands of good players since forever in online databases
I would like to see that, and I would be eager to dismiss a detail like that as due to variance unless a sample size was well into the millions of hands. I would expect that if this were the case over a given sample, some weaker hands might be winning more in specific positions than stronger hands of the same type.
Also, a game being softer does not necessarily mean that the bottom of your opening range goes up in EV. It can actually mean that the bottom of your opening range, especially in earlier positions, goes down in EV while the middle and top of your range go up in EV more than enough to compensate. But this depends exactly in which ways the opposition is playing poorly. If 33 or 22 was winning in some games opening HJ online, it would be in those where cutoff and button folded too much to the open, assuming at least similar postflop skills. In my experience the opposite is true in over 1,000 hours of live 20-40. Even assuming postflop skill differences, low pocket pairs are easily the worst class of hands to try to raise EV over equilibrium by outplaying people.