NLHE Foundations Course #05: Pre-Flop Ranges (Part 2)

Originally Posted by Cobra_1878

Question: Whem somebody 3bets this amount; how the hell do you put them on a calling range?

Good work with how you answered this exercise.

To answer your question: It's tricky and difficult. A lot of trying to approximate the ranges of players will be tricky in this regard, and the goal isn't to be 100% perfect with it. Instead, all of this training in this course is to show you how to practice so that you're right a lot more than you're wrong, because that's what allows you to print money and turn poker into your personal ATM in today's games.

Villain stats:
VPIP: 24
PFR: 15
AF: 3
3Bet: 4.2
ATS: 41

hands seen: Villain range:

MP vs EP: AQo, TT, TT, KK, KK, TT, J9s, AQs, KK TT+, AJo+
LP vs EP: KK, QQ, TT, AA, TT+
LP vs MP: 99, TT, AKo, 99+, AJo+, AKo
Blinds vs EP: AA QQ+?
Blinds vs MP: QQ, AA, AKs, A8o QQ+, AKs
Blinds vs LP: AJo, AQs, AKo, ATs, 77 77+, ATs+, AJo+
Blind vs Blind: KK, ATo, 77, A3o, ATs 77+, ATs+, ATo+

so with a 3bet stat of 4.2 over a pretty big sample - im going to assume that outlier looking stuff like A8o and J9s from MP are situationally dependent. Do these ranges look right?

Also i suppose this means maybe this guy likes to 3bet SC sometimes? when would be the best time to do that?

Originally Posted by siriusisness

when would be the best time to do that?

That's a loaded question, and I'll refer you to the 3-betting threads in the SSNL forum Digest thread (see the stickies at the top of the page) for more information on that.