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Originally Posted by devnull2
Interesting, I ran into a guy with similar strategy. It's successful, because it's hard to continue with TT on J96r board. They love the initiative and just keep betting, if the are the raiser. Otherwise, they want to take initiative by check/raising. But, they shutdown, if get called on the flop.
I had a friend like this. He had by far the biggest cbet% of any winning player I've ever seen live. Not 80% pot like op describes but ~40% perfectly merged across all his ranges. This somehow also earned him the lowest showdown% of everyone we knew. It was like watching a magician. He would bully everyone with these little relentless bets.
Low showdown means low variance. He kind of trained every table he played to just let him do it within a few orbits. Just seeing these end cases can really open up your game to the possibilities. Tbf, a bunch of people disastrously tried to copy him. His post flop discipline was otherworldly.
His motto: I don't really worry about my hand until they call the flop.