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RE: Preflop Poker Guide: Hands to Raise From Each Position
I originally wanted to make a complete preflop guide with calls and 3bets, but to this day I've never figured out a great way to create optimal calling ranges. It requires so much calculation that I think most top players just sort of guess what's profitable, but I've never seen rigorous answers.
To the other players out there, how do you come up with preflop calling ranges? (in spots other than the big blind).
Here's one particular instance I'm curious about answers on:
Lojack opens (with the 15.38% range I gave above), what do you call and 3bet in the cutoff?
The best calling ranges I have found were in Matthew Janda's book... They are part of a full GTO strategy (to the extent that it is possible to approximate one!) and as such, it is not hard to craft balanced ranges for any given flop.
I read his book back in the day and I didn't really agree with his ranges. Thought there were a couple spots he was calling way too wide (down to 54s in some spots with players behind). That said I had no way to show my ranges were better haha. Only real way is for someone like nanonoko with a few million hand database to chime in with his empirical results, but it's always been the area where I beat my head against a wall and could never justify answers.
The thing with 54s and similar hands is that they retain their equity very well on many flops. It's very easy to construct robust ranges with a hand like 54s.