Quote Originally Posted by jyms View Post
Your blind stats and CC stats are far different from mine. You seem to CC more in general and from the BB way more than I thought was good. Mind you, you are pkaying far higher too. Is that because of a difference in the aggression of the stakes or do you have a different opinion on cold calling IP and out?
There may be a few factors to this:

1. Confidence in playing OOP post-flop. Some people just aren't comfortable with playing well OOP without initiative, so they choose to 3b or fold pre.
2. People at higher stakes often stealing for a min-raise LP or 2.5x, whereas I'd imagine at lower stakes 2.5x or 3x might even be more common? So getting a better price on a call from BB.
3. People not really focusing on what the benchmark for a call to be. The call does not have to be >0bb/100, the call has to be better than -100bb/100. So people really need to use that as a frame of reference.
4. Having a low 3b % should strengthen your cold call ranges. This should also give you more flexibility to raise flops or call down on some boards more credibly.

Also I've done a lot of GTO studying on ranges, and call down ranges. I think just having done a lot of studying gives you confidence in knowing your call down ranges are based on fundamentals. Again that relates to point 1 and being confident in playing post-flop OOP.