good stuff. everyone in the BC should do an ABCD exercise or two over their micro career 'cause it's the best way to get a solid theoretical, exploitative perspective on the game.

A RANGE- i agree with your conclusion, but not necessarily everything you wrote about it. mainly, it's really really bad to give so much consideration to preflop equity in this spot. equity means very very little when you're in position 250bb's deep with 5 cards yet to come against a player with so many exploitable tendancies (i'll get into this more later).

basically we wanna 3b anything that will allow us to win big pots on many flops. that's not the most articulate way to word it, so let me give an example: if we 3b with AQo here, then we will be able to win big pots on Q-high flops as we will get tons of value from KQ/QJ/QTs and will even be able to win medium sized pots against a bunch of 88-JJ type stuff that might call a street or two. it's an added bonus that villain is unlikely to raise anything we have dominated, so we can often save our stack against sets when villain c/r's at any point in the hand.

i personally think we might be better off just flatting TT preflop, though both options are obviously profitable. villain is unlikely have a ton of 9's and lower in his range, and he's unlikely to stack off with the hands we dominate (66-99) unimproved, so it's gonna be tough to get a TON of value, even on the <50% of boards that we flop top pair on. it's obviously never a bad idea to get him to put in more money when his range is behind our hand, though, and 3b'ing is nice for our shania given our 3b'ing range against this player, so i certainly don't dislike 3b'ing here.

finally, noting the players left to act behind you can be huge in this spot as well. if there's a full-stacked 70/3 in the blinds or if one of the limpers is a 40/10 who doesn't limp/fold, then i would flat hands like TT and AQo, to keep them in the pot knowing that i can rake in a ton of value when my hands flop well against those players.

B RANGE- this logic is flawed:

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i don't really feel like flatting AJo when villain's range contains 24 combinations of stronger aces, and only 4 combinations of worse aces. that seems odd that i don't feel like i can profitably call hands directly below the range i am 3betting for value (ie i'm 3betting AQo for value but don't feel comfortable flatting AJ), so i'd like to hear some peoples thoughts on that.
this goes back to the whole preflop equity not mattering thing. basically we're in position on a player who plays to passive and let's pots get too big with mediocre hands, whereas we're in position, and have a strong grasp of villain's range and how he's going to play that range with a LOT of money left behind. in other words, we're in a spot where we can really own our opponent.

sure, if the flop comes A-high, then the majority of villain's top pair hands will have us beat (though i think he has more combos of AT, then you put in his range); however, we also know that villain is unlikely to fire two barrels as a bluff, so we can flat the flop and if he bets the turn on, say, an A82 two-toned flop and blank turn, then we can comfortably fold. whereas if he checks the turn, we can put his range mainly on hands that we have beat and figure out how we can get a second street of value out of his second pair type hands and draws. also, you didn't mention that we have him dominated when the flop comes J-high. also, since he plays predictably, we can play back at him in select flops like, we can float or raise flops like QTx. etc.

the other stuff you wanna flat wtih sounds good, and i like the reasoning. 43s sounds meh (i mean, durrr could prolly profitably flat with pretty much anything suited and semi-connected, but maybe you should stick with suited connectors and one gappers). also, Axs is a perfectly fine hand to flat with as it has nut potential and plays decently on A-high flops (see AJo discussion for how the fact that his Ax hands have us dominated doesn't necessarily make this hand impossible to play). I would certainly wanna play suited aces with straight potential: i.e. A2-A5s and ATs.

C RANGE- you nailed it. having a player with a weak range that he won't fold often is still super exploitable (if you can get him off his weak range on later streets), a player wtih a strongish range who folds everything but KK+ is still exploitable to 3b bluffs, but a player with a pretty strong range who isn't folding any of that range and then plays fairly stationy postflop, is just no someone you wanna be 3b'ing or floating as a bluff very often, even this deep.

and obv, D RANGE is just kinda everything else

hope this isn't tl;dr, and that it's helpful/sparks some good discussion