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We can improve our EV against GTO on some “nodes”. On this you agree with me.
You’re saying that I would lose money by not opening the extra hands against someone who uses the GTO strategy which is also true.
I’m saying that provided the villain doesn’t know the entire GTO strategy, you can improve your ev against him when his strategy matches GTO, and you don’t lose any money because you play your weaker hands in the situations where he doesn’t know GTO.
You're just assuming you don't lose any money with your weaker hands in those situations. Maybe you don't; maybe you do. It depends on whether you play those situations better than your opponent to enough of a degree to overcome the "lost" EV from previous decisions that were designed to get into this game state.
It's an attempt to trade a "mistake" for (hopefully) a much bigger "mistake" from your opponent later on.
This is essentially how you exploit someone. You purposefully make a "mistake" because they make larger "mistakes" that your "mistake" takes advantage of.
It'll work if the opponent makes mistakes bigger to enough of a degree and it won't if they don't. Also, hero has to not make additional mistakes in this unusual game state that he sought to cause, unless of course such additional "mistakes" are on purpose to take further advantage of larger "mistakes" by the opponent, which leads to the same thing where it won't work if the opponent doesn't make those larger "mistakes" or if hero makes additional mistakes in this unusual game state.
Also, hopefully the real life human opponent never adjusts. It basically seems that hands are being played linearly with strong hands played 1 way and then at some cutoff point all weaker hands being played another way. So, if the opponent did ever adjust it seems like just a couple simple adjustments would completely destroy this. Of course, you'd say that then you would just adjust again and "rinse" your opponent.
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I do realise that your weakest opening hands make most their profit from fold equity when you open them, they might well lose money overall when you open them. YOU don’t realise that when you limp them this is no longer true. You said that I won’t be able to build a big pot with those hands, but nor do I want to as these hands suck. Limping is a great way to pot control.
If this is true then they wouldn't be in a GTO opening range. They'd probably be a fold. In non-rake environments, they might be limps. Players trying to play exploitatively should also not open a hand if they expect that they'll lose money overall by opening such hand, unless it somehow inspires really drastic and ongoing mistakes from the opponent (e.g. I'd min-open any 2 cards against a Paisting like player until he started shoving any 2 for hours and then adjust to that).
P.S.
Y.J did really write a book. Here's the link:
https://www.amazon.com/Levels-Learn-.../dp/1527211711
Last edited by Lego05; 09-27-2020 at 09:45 AM.