I feel like I have studied a decent amount on pre flop opening, pre flop 3 betting, and pre flop squeeze plays. I don’t feel like I have spent anywhere near as much time on pre flop flatting of an earlier player raise. I realize that betting or folding allows you to make it so other players are forced to make uncomfortable decisions more than you have to. That said, there are surely some times where flatting makes sense. Especially in the big blind. But I don’t feel like I have seen enough training videos on when to flat pre flop. I see plenty of discussion of when to flat post flop, but not so much pre flop. Also, poker software seems to be more shove/fold than flat. I’m referring to more than just you are deep enough to set mine.

Can anyone recommend either TPE training videos, charts or software that is good for pre flop calling/flatting decision making?

Again, I realize that a high degree of fold/re-raise makes sense. But I don’t think you can use that strategy 100 percent of the time. For example, against an early position raise, if you are willing to call with a low pair because of the implied odds of hitting a set versus a premium hand, aren’t you supposed to call out of the big blind with JT suited? After all, you know you are guaranteed get to the flop cheap and if you get hit hard by the flop you might get AA to stack off. On the other hand, you might fold JT suited from middle position against an UTG raise since you have to call the full bet (as opposed to when you are in the big blind) AND you run the risk of someone waking up with a big hand and re-raising, not to mention people still to act after you might run a light squeeze play which will force you to fold.

Other scenarios where you probably just flat the earlier pre flop raise: Medium pairs, connected broadway cards that are unsuited if the original raise was from latish position, ace-rag suited from late position, etc. I’m not saying you want to do this a ton, but surely there are times when the pre flop call is good.

I have snapshove software, but the call option is when to call a shove. It doesn’t address when to call a standard open. Pokersnowie quizzes (for free) seem to focus more on how to play big hands pre flop, and primarily raise/fold decisions post flop. It doesn’t seem to look much at pre flop calling decisions. I am getting close to making the decision to subscribe to pokersnowie for the training game configurator, but I want to do more work on TPE training videos before utilizing both products.

I guess what I am asking is, are there pre flop call charts in much the same way that there are pre flop RFI (raising first in) charts and pre flop shove charts? 

Any direction TPE nation can provide will be much appreciated.