Put ATo and A9o either in your calling or folding range pre. They block 99-TT which continues to 3bets way more often than 55-88. Put TJs-KQs in your calling range pre.
Your 3betting range here is still WAY WAY too tight imo. You have described a completely perfect situation in which to 3bet bluff in because
1. We have position
2. Villain folds to 3bets a ton
3. Villains PF range is wider than usual because he is in LP and both blinds are extremely tight
4. Again both blinds are extremely tight
5. If we don't 3bet bluff him now, It's rare we will get in anywhere near as good of a spot to exploit him because other non nits will be in pot and villain will either have a much tighter opening range or have position on us.
This hypothetical 3bet bluffing spot is so good I don't think I've ever actually been in this good of a spot for it (hypothetical blinds who fold 100% will do that to you). Even though this spot is sooooo good for 3bet bluffing, you are only 3betting 6.3% of your hands. Compare that number to the normal range of 3betting %'s for most winning regs being like 4-12% over all positions and situations.
I would be 3betting something like :
AA,KTs-K2s,Q9s,J8s,T8s-T7s,97s-96s,86s-85s,75s-74s,64s+,54s,ATo-A2o,KJo-K2o,JTo,T9o,98o,87o,76o for a whopping 28.8% of hands here.
(Above is assuming I keep your value ranges with the exception of TJs-QKs which I assume are missing in your range due to a typo)
You might think having this wide of a 3betting range is super exploitable, and you'd be right. Thing is every time we exploit someone we are shifting our ranges away from default plays, and hence making our play more exploitable. To exploit the shit out of someone, by definition you are making your range super exploitable.
Is our range this wide SB v BU or CO v MP? Not at all, we are probably 3betting much wider than you would, but this exact position is the complete nuts. Will this make us play guessing games with how much our opponents have adjusted sometimes? Sure, but if he does decide to adjust consider his options:
1. He can tighten up in LP leaving you a ton of buttons to play with. If he takes this route we get to steal from our hypothetical nit blinds all day.
2. He can start raising our 3 bets. We will be able to catch onto this quickly, and as long as we don't spazz out I'm pretty confidant both of us playing guessing games with us in position isn't a terrible spot. Him exploiting our 3 bet bluffs with 4 bet bluffs is completely different from what we did to him. While we were risking 9bb to win 4.5bb ( we needed him to fold 66%) he will be risking something like 18bb to win 13.5 ( he will need 57% equity). We only needed about 10% more folds and we were IP going up against an opening range, whereas he is OOP going up against a 3betting range. Sure we are adjusting without knowing EXACTLY what he's doing, but both parties are clueless here and we are IP, plus if we ever decide to we can just turn this game off by stopping our light 3bs (which he won't pick up on immediately, hence our value hands will still have more equity v his continuing range). If our villain wants to stop this, he has to stop raising in LP or sit out.
3. He can start calling our 3bets. This is easy to spot and super easy to exploit. Just unpolarize our range and He's playing bloated pots oop against us with the mindset "I'm making a stand!" In general this adjustment of his is the fishiest of the 3, but not uncommon (probably much less common at your stakes than mine, but you get what I mean.)
What it all boils down to is the one thing Zilla beat into me in IRC: There isn't a way to exploit someone on your left 3betting you, especially IP. When someone starts 3betting us from our left, all our options are just damage control.
The biggest advantage of playing these adjusting games with people is you can open up your value range and start getting paid IP with more than just AA.
Again, I'm not experienced, but from what I can see you can either choose to A) Take advantage of both the high FE offered by this guy and the natural + ev play that is 3B'ing people on your right, then end up playing potentially high variance guessing games where you can actually get some value (Still IP) or B) Choose to not (or barely) exploit this guy's tendency and get stuck playing fewer hands IP.
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