PaxMundi
Legend
Silver Level
I thought id post a little guide on building your defending ranges vs a 3bet which is used in conjunction with your opening ranges from each position. And Ill use a basic utg range as an example of how to build them from each position.
You can find some preflop ranges right here on CardsChat in the following link.
https://www.cardschat.com/poker-starting-hands.php
downoad combonator to work out your frequencies.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...XPQuB5ZCy8bW1G
They advocate opening around 16% utg for 6 max games so for an example ill use 14.5% utg. Anything between 12% and 16% is fine for utg depending on your comfort lvl. And if your playing in full ring games your ranges might be tighter than 12% utg. But you can still use your ranges and follow the same process to get your defending range.
So thats a 14.5% utg range and ideally we want to defend somewhere around 35%-45% vs a 3bet depending on whether we are ip or oop. With the minimum defence frequency being 28% if your folding over 72% your folding to much and become exploitable to 3bet with any two cards.The tighter your opening ranges from each position the tighter your 3bet defending ranges can be. And vise versa the wider your opening ranges the wider you need to defend as a result.
So if you click on "to postflop mode" then on the top right bar "postflop" we can assign a defending range vs a 3bet.
value 4bet
KK+
bluff 4bet
Ajs-ATs
call vs 3bet
QQ-99,AQs+,JTs,AKo
optional 4bet bluff
AQo
Now obviously hands in the range like AK QQ can be played as a 4bet and you might want to add a few more suited connectors to defend ip this is just a basic example of building the range. So that's a defending range ip of 38.5% i plugged in but once you account for the optional 4bet bluffs of AQo it will take it to around 40%.
And in actual play you will be defending with a slightly higher frequency when you account for other circumstances.Such as defending wider in situations when there multiple callers due to the better implied odds.Which will all add around another 5% to your defence frequecnies taking it to around 45% overall.
Two more tools that also come in use are flopzilla to store your ranges as you build them
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...LMFKe2kpFDAWfp
And the equity calculator equilab
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...XPQuB5ZCy8bW1G
And you repeat the process with each positions opening range and when adding the suited connectors to your defending ranges. I would advocate defending them with a higher frequncy ip and not so much if at all oop without info. So thats my basic guide on building a defence strategy vs 3bets using your opening ranges and these tools. I hope this guide comes in useful for anyone looking to build some basic ranges of their own.
You can find some preflop ranges right here on CardsChat in the following link.
https://www.cardschat.com/poker-starting-hands.php
downoad combonator to work out your frequencies.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...XPQuB5ZCy8bW1G
They advocate opening around 16% utg for 6 max games so for an example ill use 14.5% utg. Anything between 12% and 16% is fine for utg depending on your comfort lvl. And if your playing in full ring games your ranges might be tighter than 12% utg. But you can still use your ranges and follow the same process to get your defending range.
So thats a 14.5% utg range and ideally we want to defend somewhere around 35%-45% vs a 3bet depending on whether we are ip or oop. With the minimum defence frequency being 28% if your folding over 72% your folding to much and become exploitable to 3bet with any two cards.The tighter your opening ranges from each position the tighter your 3bet defending ranges can be. And vise versa the wider your opening ranges the wider you need to defend as a result.
So if you click on "to postflop mode" then on the top right bar "postflop" we can assign a defending range vs a 3bet.
value 4bet
KK+
bluff 4bet
Ajs-ATs
call vs 3bet
QQ-99,AQs+,JTs,AKo
optional 4bet bluff
AQo
Now obviously hands in the range like AK QQ can be played as a 4bet and you might want to add a few more suited connectors to defend ip this is just a basic example of building the range. So that's a defending range ip of 38.5% i plugged in but once you account for the optional 4bet bluffs of AQo it will take it to around 40%.
And in actual play you will be defending with a slightly higher frequency when you account for other circumstances.Such as defending wider in situations when there multiple callers due to the better implied odds.Which will all add around another 5% to your defence frequecnies taking it to around 45% overall.
Two more tools that also come in use are flopzilla to store your ranges as you build them
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...LMFKe2kpFDAWfp
And the equity calculator equilab
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...XPQuB5ZCy8bW1G
And you repeat the process with each positions opening range and when adding the suited connectors to your defending ranges. I would advocate defending them with a higher frequncy ip and not so much if at all oop without info. So thats my basic guide on building a defence strategy vs 3bets using your opening ranges and these tools. I hope this guide comes in useful for anyone looking to build some basic ranges of their own.
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