All the wheel aces and middle suited connectors join; KQo departs. Deep, EP wants nut potential, not dominated top pairs.
Nut potential is everything. Suited aces, pairs, and connected suited hands open wider; dominated offsuit hands are quietly toxic and keep shrinking.
Early position opens into seven or eight players. Tightness here is not timidity — it is respect for how often someone behind wakes up with position and a hand.
Assumes a live-standard open to ~4bb, raise-or-fold. In straddled games, halve your effective big blinds and read the chart at that depth.