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Originally Posted by phishphan1996
Your post makes sense to me. Which to be honest I feel like most of the time non of what I'm reading and doing makes sense. I can't figure out why others then the fact I developed very bad habits and tendencies from playing the way I did before now.
So when dealt a hand in your range do you assume your opponent opens,calls,raises with the same range you would from that position?
So what your saying is I need to be sure I'm folding the bottom end of my rang more?
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Since I have a decent understanding of what the best play is at a given moment the best defense combats that specific range so that whenever someone deviates from the strategy they lose money. If you don't know what another player would do you can just assume they play your ranges and decide what you do against that. If he has a wildly different strategy you are still not going to be exploited. Of course if your opponent is making massive mistakes you need to exploit that right away and not assume they play well.
When you don't fold the bottom of your range you're basically saying you think your opponent is bluffing waaaaay too much and he is FOS. Now without knowing his range and knowing the equity of your hand against that range, if he is a decent and balanced player you can assume that the bottom of your range is losing to his bet. Without having any idea what range he is playing instinctively we know that he has to have some good hands and some bluffs and that it is better to call with our best hands rather than our worst hands. Based on the pot odds you need to call with some percentage of your range to make him unable to bluff a lot. Against any reasonable bet you should always fold the bottom of your range or raise it as a bluff because calling is not going to be correct often enough.
When you make a decision the top and bottom of your range are the easiest to play. You know that preflop you fold 72o and you get it in with aces. It's the hands that get closer to the middle that make the difference since it starts becoming less clear what the right decision is. By folding the bottom hands of your range you always guarantee that you fold at least some of your hands and you're not calling too much. In other words, against a random player this call on the river with T8s was a massive mistake.