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Originally Posted by robert_utk
Arty, can you expand on this a little? I think the point ITT is that overcalling is a common weakness in small stakes fields of weaker players. Have you made any adjustments, or just stay with GTO shoves?
Sometimes when there is a whale in the BB that I know is bad enough to call with a hand like A4o (when he needs something like AT+), I'll fold some of the lower ranked hands in my 'GTO' shoving range (hands that would be +EV against regs), because I don't have enough fold equity for the jam to be profitable against that particular player. Unfortunately, I'm not particularly good at making these adaptations on-the-fly, so I often find myself losing stacks if I make an "obvi-jam" without considering the opponent.
A similar thing happens in cashgames when I 4-bet light on auto-pilot against a nit/fish that has no 3-bet/folding range. My 4-bet bluff might be "GTO", but it loses against a player that has no bluffs in his 3-bet range.
As the old saying goes, "Don't try bluffing the fish". GTO play includes a lot of bluffing.