Yeah I'm sure you're aware that if you 3bet AA on the BB your AA is already
well disguised too. This would be a really bad pre-adjustment. However, in this same spot it would almost always be beneficial to pre-adjust with some part of your actual range. There is always some part of our range that we should pre-adjust with or we would not be able to hold an advantage over our opponent.
If our actual range is the same as our perceived range, on average, we can hold no advantage over the opponent.
It's good that you can see exactly how to make this kind of play. Pre-adjusting is something that we can all do naturally, but what makes you more impressive than most of these guys is that you are able to consciously clarify exactly how to pre-adjust. This enables you to constantly be capable of it and so you will be able to apply it any time it will be profitable.
You can do this. But look at Artys earlier posts...
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Originally Posted by ArtyMcFly
I can't control how villain perceives my range, as I'm not an omniscient god like you. He either assigns an accurate range for me, or he doesn't. In most cases, if he perceives my range incorrectly, he will make mistakes and lose money against it.
That said, I think the short answer to your question is "yes". Unless I've slipped through a gap in the matrix and slid into a parallel universe - or gone insane - it's logically impossible for me to have a hand that is not in my range. The cards I hold look like they are in my range because they literally are in my range.
In the first part of his answer he is clearly attempting to speak about his perceived range. He seems to think he has no control over the opponents perception of him, which is, kind of, debatable. But it doesn't really make sense. In the second section of his post you can see where his confusion comes from. He is clearly confusing his perceived range with his actual range. That first section makes a lot more sense when you swap the ranges around -
"I don't know whether the villain is aware of my actual range, as I'm not an omniscient god like you. He either assigns an accurate range for me, or he doesn't. In most cases, if he considers my actual range incorrectly, he will make mistakes and lose money against it."
Now that makes sense.
This guy has fully replaced his perceived range with his actual range in his mind. He is unable to comprehend his perceived range. I've explained it to him loooads of times and still he cant grasp it. Look at Heehaw, all of these guys. I explain pretty simple logic which, if they could apply, would give them an advantage over the opponents but even once they get the general gist they still do anything to discredit the profitability of such moves. They will not walk away from here and start pre-adjusting. And there is no logical reason why that is not the case. These guys aren't playing in med stakes games, they are playing the micros. They should be pre-adjusting. There is no reason for it, other than, cognitive dissonance.
In their minds they already know how to pre-adjust. This is built into all of our minds. But, if they could consciously recognise exactly how to pre-adjust like you and I can, they will realise that a huge amount of the plays that they trust in will no longer be trustworthy. Their mind stops them from accepting the importance of pre-adjusting so as to protect the imperfect strategies that they have come to trust in.
This is the real reason why I face so much contension on this site. They are all trying to discredit things like pre-adjusting to protect their imperfect strategies, like, GTO. We both know what happens when everyone starts using GTO. The profit in the game disappears. And so with everyone stopping themselves from realising how to exploit using pre-adjustments and the like, they are all using GTO way more than is needed. They use GTO when they themselves already know unconsciously that there is a better strategy to use and then the profit is sucked out of our games. In low stakes games, if the players apply GTO when it's not needed, there is a knock on effect on the higher games. Poker in general is stripped of its profit.
The poker world should be backing me in my efforts to remove this cogD and get everyone in the lower games heavily exploiting again. But instead, the people making these decisions are suffering from it too, and so everyone promotes GTO and I am left to struggle alone.
If you can come to accept that this is an issue in Poker, you start to realise that there is no reason it isn't going to be an issue in other fields too. I think this is huge. I read a section of an economy text book which said that those who use the equivalent of an exploitative strategy are all arrogant! In a text book meant for students! This problem appears to be everywhere. It has infected all sections of our society. Especially those sections related to finance. And you, yourself, are in a position where you can be materialistic in bringing this problem to a close. Think about this stuff Lego. Come to realise that these players are blocking their conscious ability to do things like pre-adjust. You can help me help the entire world by simply realising the truth of the matter, and backing me up from time to time.
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