Re: Stealing hands from SB
the two sections are DERIVED from different methodology, thus yield somewhat different results.
please understand the "default" is suggested from emperical evidence and the recommended range you give second is generally what I use. The discrepancy for not raising some suited hands and for raising the equivelent or worse offsuit hands is easy - some hands play better/different post flop, so just because a specific hand has more equity does not mean it has to be raised, only PLAYED.
open raising in this situation is NOT a pure linear equity calc. you have postflop concerns, implied odds and limp re-raise balancing issues.
as far as I know, there is nothing written anywhere else that comes close to this level of specificity.
specific to point 1 - as mentioned above you are comparing somewhat apples to oranges. open raising 22 in our statistical analysis for three players over 1MM hands I believe showed a loss greater than the -.25 you would yield by folding. This suggests a fold. This seems counterintuitive to us and could certainly be explained somewhat by variance in the statistical analysis, thus it is in our suggested open raising standards listed later in the book for specific situations.
2. K9s vs K8o again this makes sense to me for balancing purposes and post flop considerations but I cannot say it is decidedly better - this stuff gets very very difficult to find exact cutoff points.
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