Paradox or no?

[piki]

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If you knew your opponent hand range was that tight wouldnt the most EV thing to do be to expand your hand range to take advantage of all the blinds he is going to be giving up, or am I missing the point here?

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This has nothing to do with EV (yet), only equities. Just as if you are in a game with no blinds and your opponent raises those hands anyway. This is purely theoretic, watch out for all 'ifs'.

Ok, continuation from my edit. Let's say opponent opens AA-KK, AKs. What's our equity if we get involved with him with the same range of hands? 50? It is 48,7% because our distribution of hands has changed. I do not know if this was originially considered when defining the 'gap concept', but it definitely supports it. If the opponent takes the best cards and we play looser than him, our disadvantage will be additionally increased by the fact that our hand will include worse cards more often, even if they are evenly distributed in range.

-pix