I think I am more confused now than when I originally posted this lol

Spenda: I would love to see a microstakes video where you discuss at length balancing ranges. I just got one of the scholarships to grinderschool.com so now would be a perfect time hint hint

Stacks: Your posts make a lot of sense to me.. thanks for sharing your insights.

So far I have learned.

1. We balance ranges to make postflop play more difficult for our opponents.
2. We balance our range to confuse our thinking opponents and to increase our "Shania."
3. We merge our range to gain value against weak opponents.

Tell me if these examples are anywhere near the right track:

1. We are playing 5NL 6-max.. a guy running 24/16/2.0 has been raising our blinds relentlessly for the past half hour. He seems solid and has shown down only strong hands. We decide to defend with any suited connector as well as our nut hands. We end up in a hand with him and make a weird straight with 108s. 5 minutes later we are in the BB with AA and he raises us once again. We 3-bet and he 4-bet shoves 88. Would he have done that if we had not polarized our defending range earlier?

2. 5NL 6-max again.. a guy is running 45/2/.05.. and obvious donk. He has shown down 3rd pair after calling 2-3 streets. We decide to raise his limps with more of a merged range that flops better against his range. We leave off our Axs, sc hands but add K10s, QJ, J10s etc. We then bet for value relentlessly on any favorable boards.