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Originally Posted by Crispix
Wasn’t this a thing a few years back when it was Cbet range on flop 100%. At that point the adjustment was to never have a cap range prelfop and check raise the crap out of the flop? That turned upside down when solvers came in and people started having a check back range and thus capping pre and donking the flop became tools to counteract losing value.
There was a substantial period of time where the common wisdom on 2p2 was to never 3-bet out of the BB heads up. Not just because people c-bet too much, and you could therefore reliably make the half-bet back by check-raising the flop, but more importantly because it would keep your calling range uncapped and because it would allow you to evaluate the flop as the OOP player and then deciding how to proceed.
A solved range will 3-bet, and the in position player will sometimes 4-bet. But that strategy involves some mixing that is a bit difficult to accomplish in the real world, and I'd be interested in what the ev difference is between a flat-only strategy and one that 3-bets out of the blind. Same with a strategy of never 4-betting HU vs. a 3-bet. I wouldn't be surprised if the ev difference is pretty small, and assuming it is, there is some merit to the never re-raising strategy for the purpose of simplifying your preflop strategy and making your post-flop range a bit less predictable.
OTOH, if your re-raising range is a bit too narrow because you're not mixing in some of the junkier stuff often enough, that's probably fine because most players won't effectively exploit you anyway. And in that case, there's a lot of merit to the idea that we just want to get bets in when we can while we are way ahead.