[Acevader]

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Today for example I watched GabyGaby 3-bet a CO raise from the BTN with 45s. He then flopped a FD on an ace-high wet board and c-bet his draw as opposed to peeling the free turn. Lucky for him his opponent slowplayed AK and got burnt.

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RR with 54s OTB vs a CO raise is super standard

that spot is one of the biggest money makers, the CO just calling AK is going to put him in all sorts of terrible spots

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If he pulls stunts like that on me my adaptation will be to decide on a suitable calling range (including the premium pairs) that will be considerably higher in equity terms than his 3-bet range. I'll then c/r him AI on most/all flops and let the maths do the work - he'll usually miss, I put the commitment decision on him and in general I'll have a stronger range. Our variance will be epic but it's his choice if he wants to pull 3-bet squeeze plays with SC's against a regular that simply won't stand for it.

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there aren't many premium hands(and ones like AK miss over half the flops)

so you'll be checkshoving Ahigh/smallmidpair a ton with this plan

if he gets you to stop 4betting alltoghether he's already won, or if he gets you to massively drop the steals in this spot, since it gives him more opportunities in one of the most profitable spots in fr, OTB folded to you

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I agree a lot of players squeeze SC's there and so do I sometimes. As you allude the other strategy is to 4-bet light but since I know he cbets any flop he 3-bets c/r works just fine as well. Yes there will be times where he calls and I'm drawing very dead but there will also be times he'll fold the better hand. Crucially on average my hand will be stronger and I'll be putting the final tough decision on him. As a strategy it will work just fine unless/until he adapts to it. Which sort of proves my point; I expect gabygaby is good enough to adapt to it and in turn I'll readapt and so on and so forth. The final result is high variance and high resource expenditure trying to figure out each others game. Meanwhile a fish with K10s who folds to our 3-bet war but may well have stacked off with TPTK to one of us sits with his buy in still in front of him.