Shifty

When playing micros you should be taking exploitative measures but it does help to understand what you should do in a certain spot in theory. At the end you are here to learn and go higher and you don't want to pay lots of money for your mistakes.

Villains might not consciously understand who has the advantage but unconsciously they will still overfold in certain spots. You just need to have in mind that they will be likely more reluctant to let go some strong but dominated hand like TPGK or so.
Good example is a range bet with low sizing. It works vs fishes, abc regs. They might don't understand how ranges interact but they do overfold so it makes very profitable play.

I think the case here is to find balance to not overthink and expect villain to understand what you are trying to represent. Here is where exploit comes.You overfold vs unexpected aggression even when theory says otherwise while still being aware what correct play should be vs a skilled villain.

This is why you can beat lower stakes playing solid but unbalanced, tightish strategy. Nobody's gonna exploit you. When you start learning advanced concepts you can get lost in a way you don't adapt to villains level. So you can go back and play inferior but still profitable strategy or learn to adapt while still knowing what's the theory-wise optimal play.

"What solid players overcall with in those spots?"
If MP is a rec SB might be overcalling even with hands that should be a 4-bet here to invite MP into pot. Might be less frequent while he's OOP but I wouldn't discount that.

Besides all technicall stuff, work on your mindset and develop a professional aproach to the game. You can find good material in Leszek Badurowicz book here on RIO and also Mental Game of Poker by Jared Tendler. Leszek's book is especially good as it touches concepts not directly related to poker but also to daily life like time management, prioritizng tasks and setting goals. I owned this book long before it was available in English here on RIO and it really helps me, using it to this day.

Jared Tendler book is also nice lots of info about psychology related to poker.

Hi, I suppose in general people 3-bet tight vs early opens. in theory 99+,ATs+,A5s-A2s,KJs+,QJs,65s,54s,AQo+ but might be even tighter maybe without bluffs like 65s, 54s.
The range I'm sure about would be 99-QQ, AQs and then hands like 77-88, AJs, KQs, QJs, JTs which would be calls vs a lower sizing like 8bb but vs 9bbs seems to be borderline. Thanks for analysis.

If I get squeezed I'm folding that particular hand. What raise size do you propose?

I don't have much of a calling range pre CO vs MP, I prefer to play 3-Bet/fold strategy. The reason I have called is that there was a weaker player behind and on the micro stakes people don't squeeze that much. Still I'm not sure what's better EV in that situation to 3-bet or flat.

Hero default 3-bet range: 99+,ATs+,A5s-A2s,KJs+,QJs,65s,54s,AQo+, sometimes TT-JJ, AQs flat
MP range: 66+,A2s+,K9s+,QTs+,J9s+,T9s,98s,87s,ATo+,KJo+

As you can see I'm not flatting 33 or 44 here but if I see a weak player behind then I'm flatting all weak pocket pairs due to implied odds. What should be optimal sizing to raise flop? Thanks for analysis.

The 4x open was due to the fish on the SB. My 4-bet bluffs would be something from A5s-A2s, KTs but not all of them, maybe 50% from that range? Guy was 3betting 4.2 after 214 hands, 6.2 from the BTN so I would choose maybe A5-A3s.

I think the key is the assumption of a player type?

If we assume that he is a solid reg then he's correctly defending vs a 3-bet. If he opens 40-50% of hands then in theory he should defend 50% of this range so around 20-25% of that. Also he has a position over us which also decreases our fold equity. If he would be a ABC reg opening same range but overfolding to 3-bets then our FE would be pretty huge because he would continue like 1/5 of the range he opens instead of 1/2.

In the example you've mentioned where tight CO opens - we have following:
1. Tight player - he will open tighter than general thus his range will have more concentration of strong hands BUT as he is tight then he will propably overfold to a 3-bets more than strong balanced player.
2. He will be OOP in a 3-bet pot which increases our FE.

I hope that all makes sense and please correct me if I'm wrong.

Maybe do your own transcripts aka notes? Will help you to understand content and offer possibility to come back to your notes in future? :)

I'm currently at 21 episode and already did 69 pages of notes including screenshots from slides.

Hey st4ckem!
Based on what I've learned from the series so far range bet means that you basically do it with most of the range. You have position and range advantage on that kind of a dry board. So if you have 2nd pair as you mentioned you should still make a c-bet. Villain range is capped because he didn't make a 3-bet so you have more nutted hands there. If you check and he has something like KTo you are allowing him to realize his equity - he is having 6 outs so betting should be done here for protection and also value.