up to you if you want to call it a weak hand for value or a semi bluff. We're somwhere in the middle of our range or something like that. Protection/semi value..

We have so many better hands to double barrel here.

I think I would lean towards focusing on barreling 98s,87s,QJ,and KQ combos, in that order, if we have those in our range before choosing to barrel AK on this board.

we may not have all of those hands, many of them seem like good flatcalls and some like a fold like QJo for example. And I would call QJs.

We want to have like 70 % bluffs and 30% value. And we could probably cbet rly wide, we don't have to barell all of our combos. I could def bet AK and x/c on some turns and x/f on some, and barell on some ofc. I don't rly see why we shouldn't want to bet AK since we do good vs his calling range and for protection/value. We need some aces in our barelling range, rather check weak back weaker ones imo.

3 combos of AKs, 3 combos AQs, 3 combos of 98s, 3 combos of 87s, 3 combos 54s, 9 combos of A3s-A5s etc.

Depends on our 3b strat, but all better candidates.

Lol.. iirc board was 2 6 Tr (weaktight aint working for me atm). Don't rly get why you would think A3s-A5s would be better barrells. AK got 6 outs to the essential nuts, our blockers are awesome as well. If we want to construct strong barrelling range I would say AK is a good 3 barell on a bunch of runouts. Can't recall what positions we were, but if villain got KTs / ATs preflop in that case, we block them which is going to be hands that can call down on bricks. And we can def barrell a A/Q/J/K since A/K gives us the nuts, and the J/Q are good for our range, we pick up a gutter (also block AQ/KQ/AJ/KJ). If villain slowplays like AA/KK , yeah we block those two, and I have a hard time AA will fold on many runouts on this board if he does slowplay it on occasion.

All the hands you mentioned as "better candidates" just block a bunch of crappy hands which we actually want villain to have. By blocking stronger hands we get more folds when bluffing the river, having 87s is like the same as having the Ah on a two hearts flop and river brick. It's bad bluff, you block air which you want villain to have (his range gets weaker).

I ran some quick range for villain in equilab when AKo got like 51% or w/e vs villains range and we're ip, probably don't get raised very often. And we can still check down and win on some runouts or x/c. If you look up the equity you will see that A3s-A5s do way worse first of all, second of all we're going to hit a bunch of marginal hands which can't bet bet shove if we hit an ace etc. We have to hit like a ace and a five, two fives with A5s, runner runner flush / or straight to get good valuebets with that hand. And that isn't going to happend very often.

When making simulations I do 70/30 flop, 50/50 turn and 30/70 river (bluffs/value). It's however quite hard to determine what are bluffs/value sometimes (When betting for protection/value, like in this particular case) and somewhere along those lines are probably fine. I don't know this stuff very good rly, so you might be right. However it's as stevejpa said in his first video lots of assumptions so not rly that important to be have exact percentages I think.

Where did you get 40/60 from?

I did this while I was lying in bed about to sleep so not sure what range I used. But if we just grab a bunch of hands like 66+ or smth like that and a bunch of broadways (except the weakest ones) and like 98s + we should still be around around 50-55% area or similair. The range I gave was probably too wide, and we pretty much do better vs a slightly tighter range since we got a bunch of his hand dominated.

Not sure if that's true, but his range actually mostly is bluffcatchers on this board except for like TT and eventually 66 if he calls it preflop