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Originally Posted by KatyPurry
Makes sense. Generally, how would you approach an unknown?
Usually you can ascertain this information in a few rounds - in the pool i've been playing in, it seems the average is overly aggressive in weird/wrong spots. So my "unknown" baseline read is that my opponent will have way more bluffs/non-made hands, will be stickier postflop, etc. Mind you this generalization is relative to how online games used to play which was the aggressive players were much fewer and far between. You saw a lot more nits or tight and passive players before with an occasional opponent who took advantage of those players by ramping up the aggression at every possible step of the way.
Observationally, this seems to have shifted and more and more players must have heard the phrase "you need to be aggressive to win" but somehow didnt bother understanding why and when to be aggressive.
However I think as a baseline read - I would tend to give credit to strong aggressive action still, even in today's climate until frequency reaches a threshold where it becomes too often and frequent and will adjust.
I was just reading an interesting article on doug polk's site about using a baseline style of simply a more GTO theory influenced play style and then adjusting to exploit opponents since opponents at these levels have such flaws in their game - I still dont have a solid grasp of this play style yet but the argument was convincing.