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Originally Posted by winky51
What I am gathering then is that you mean me as an opponent. Because I do those things. So basically if I am playing someone as good as I am. At the local casinos I visit I rarely find an equal player. At my place there are about 5 that play 2/5 or 5/10 who think I do and at least 2 of them admit they don't know how to play vs a tough opponent who plays closer to GTO. They are feel players who play exploitive.
Recently one of my poker friends, who is better than me at poker, went to the WSOP and cashed. Even he admitted his late table was better than him with a lot of 3 betting. Basically saying what you are saying.
So my conclusion is that these 3b strategies do not apply 98% of the time at 2/5 and 5/10 at my casino. Thus what I thought you meant by a tough opponent just meaning deep thinker or better. When in reality these guys are well beyond that.
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And no offense taken. Learning from mistakes is never offending. I often overthink my opponent's capabilities. They simply are not at my level. I do a lot of combo work, understand how often people flop, what combos they have, what percentages of combos they have, etc. Some of my poker friends call me the math player but I am not. Mathematics of Poker gave me headaches.
Ok great, I think we're on the same page now. So when you say a good/tough opponent you mean basically a top player at a NL$500 or NL$1000 live cash game. Got it.
Against this player pool the best strategies are going to be highly exploiative, and both a good exploitative strategy and good GTO strategy are both going to be highly profitable (in terms of BB/100) due to the relative softness of the games. So you can take either approach, but a good exploitative strategy is probably easier to learn and can ultimately be more profitable (likely by a wide margin) too.
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Originally Posted by winky51
Now here is the follow up. Which is the best resource to understand how to combat tough opponents by 3 betting? My future plans when my son is out of school and I have more free time is to enter into larger MTTs to play for educational charities. Give a portion of my winnings to help children. I will need to know how to play these players. Also if online ever gets to the point where I am forced to play on a HUD site. I'll reread that 3b section again.
OH SNAP oddly enough I JUST NOW got your email from CardRunners. Good to have you here too as I'm going to miss discussions there.
Ok, so I assume you've seen my videos at Cardrunners regarding pre-flop play and 3-bet pots. Did you find watching videos useful? If you did, I'd probably look into one of the following but you'll have to fact check what I'm saying is true:
1. RunItOnce, advantage here is most content and very good players.
2. Deuces Cracked, advantage is still lots of content and cheapest option
3. Upswing Poker, advantage here is top notch players and most organized content.
I would then try to supplement this material with either PokerSnowie (probably this one) or PioSOLVER (a bit more advanced but it might float your boat) then find other players to talk to who are working on concepts similar to yours. Playing in 3-bet pots well is high variance and difficult so this is stuff that's going to take time, so make sure you're enjoying it too as if you have a family and full time job I would not do anything that makes a game you currently love feel like "work."