Now lets give him one or two more speculative hands, just to get to a probable range in terms of equity.
Equity Win Tie
MP2 44.27% 42.45% 1.83% KQo
MP3 55.73% 53.90% 1.83% QQ-99, AdAc, KhKc, AQs-ATs, KTs+, QTs+, JTs, T9s, 98s, AdKd, AsKs, AQo, AdKh, AdKs, AdKc, AsKd
Now, I know that we have initiative which is important, however he will have position and will have an equally eprceived strong range, in fact, even against our perceived strong range his hand still plays well.
I just don't think its an euto 3bet for value spot where villain will be defending a bunch of Q7s kind of flairy hands and will actually be very strong, and in reality, I don't need many 3bet bluffs as my 3bet PURE (not merged) value range is very narrow and thus would prefer to protect my calling range with KQo and 3bet/fold K9o or even KJo, which could also fall into my calling range too.
Yeah if this is the guy's range then absolutely we should be flatting KQ pre. We should only be 3betting the bottom 90% or so of hands that we can't profitably peel, since he will be folding to a 3bet >80% of the time. It's not realistic at all.
Maybe it's a style thing, but I don't understand why you want to have a wide peeling range preflop. What happened to "POSITION + INITIATIVE = PROFIT"? Yeah there's a weak player there, but you were drilling that golden rule into jcgblack when he was playing 10nl and they're ALL weak players. I'll just be repeating myself if I talk more about preflop, so I guess we just have to agree to disagree.
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