Button-range, defend vs 3-bet

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Sure that's fine .but what game are we playing?
Ranges vary from cash games.
Zoom
Tournament ss ds
S&g
So different types off strategy apply to different games.

I play NL 25-zoom, 6-max, at Pokerstars.

Sure good range but I would trim it bit.
I know sounds wrong but AK on zoom wastes a lot off money.
Drop pockets 8s and go from pocket 99.
In lower limit I would go down as far as pocket 22 but not here.
You are best off marking the players with colors to wot they do.choose you're own .
Like red carefull red stealer etc I found huds don't work.9n zoom
And keep the buy in on max that way other players be wary off bullying you.
Even at that you will be bullied from the beginning.

Don't try anything illustroise until after about 200 hands played

Also wot brm are you working on you play up there if you don't have 50× buy in.
That's just my stategy .others would say I'm wrong😕

Hey danwan,

I'll move this to our "No Limit" board where it will likely get more answers as well as being visible for longer.

Regards

Laz

You are a beast ♦

It depends on what kind of player you are playing with, on his stats, on his bet sizing, on stack sizes, on how he has played before. In some situations it is better to call AK and QQ and 4b with 9-8s. If opp 3betting too much i'd call something like 8-6s for a float, vs unknown my max calling range would be AQs,QKs.

I think your standard range looks ok. Maybe it is a bit heavy on 4bet bluffs. If villain 3bets you often, you can tighten your steal range and start 4betting more. I don't think villains 3bet size should affect our defending range a lot. If his standard 3bet size vs your small opens is 5x, we should defend as wide as we do vs 3x (in my opinion).

I don't like 4bet jamming any hand, but if you face a shove from from these positions, I would go broke with AK.
I don't think villains post flop stats are that important when making a preflop decision. Of course if you have some kind of reads that you can exploit villain easily postflop, you can defend by calling more (if villain plays fit or fold postflop for example, I think it is profitable to call his 3bets wider and exploit him postflop).