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If you consider villain so relentlessly aggressive that your plan with 9x is to call down, wouldn't you also call down with sets?
if V was so aggressive that calling down with 9x was profitable, then obviously we would call down with sets (and jam remaining on riv if any behind)
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That "loose passive donk" flop strategy of "raise strong hands, float marginals/draws" brutally exploits players (2p2ers) who unplug their fold button when they perceive their opponent's value range is narrow.
sure thats true, but that's a horrible adjustment that you shouldnt make. also it doesnt apply here because 1)calling down with KK is probably part of a balanced strategy so its not an adjustment 2)we were not told that V was a "loose passive donk" who is likely to raise only with strong hands.
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Also, villain's strategy is not transparent, so sets are still in his range if he flats and a turn raise from him will look even stronger.
why do we need V's strategy to be transparent? and the fact that he (likely) plays a mixed strategy on the flop (calling some, raising some) only changes the weight of value hands that we assign him in each instance. we still have to estimate his strategy, whether it is mixed or pure, to form our own. also, if he is flatting some sets otf, he has fewer value combos which makes it more likely he is overbluffing, because most people dont adjust for this.
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Trying to counter villain's barreling by getting sticky with bluff catchers is, in itself, exploitable, by one of villain's safest lines. A line which he is liable to use often when he doesn't know much about Hero.
it is only exploitable if we call down with a larger than optimal portion of our cbetting range. you are insinuating that the gto solution in this case involves folding all our bluffcatchers, which i think is clearly not the case.
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CallMeVernon is right: Avoiding being exploited by a solid player here means avoiding the situation entirely, either by not cbetting, or by going into a different metagame altogether where villain doesn't have so much control (bet/3betting flop).
no, it does not. not cbetting any hands here (if not KK, then what?) is going to lower your EV substantially. b/3b could possibly be a good strategy (depends how wide he raise/calls flop), but you cant possibly believe that V has sets so often when he raises that we should fold the flop/turn and simultaneously believe that we should consider b/3b the flop. why does it matter that V has control? all that means here is that he is representing a range which is polarized wrt our holding, and thus we should either call down or fold with our bluffcatcher based on our estimation of the frequency with which he is bluffing.