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Look, I don’t really need to know how you play your range in this spot but you do.
And as I said: I can't tell you because it depends on how many players I'm up against, what kinds of players I'm up against, what the stack sizes are, whether it's tournament or ring game (and in tournaments even how long the levels are would make a difference)
But even if all were kept constant there is no hand I would play the exact same way every time. I would bet trip aces on the flop almost all of the time against one good opponent in a ring game. But not always. I would check trip aces against two or more loose opponents with one being a short stack in a tournament almost always - but not all of the time. That's why I said: I have all my hands in my betting and checking range. I know this may not be GTO but in a tournament like this GTO matters very little when there's still many non-GTO players at the table.
GTO play makes you less exploitable (not non-exploitable because no one plays perfect GTO). But what it
doesn't do is make you play maximum +EV as long as your opponents aren't perfect GTO players.
If you're heads up against a non-GTO player postflop then how much you play GTO or not doesn't matter a bit against with respect to any other GTO-player at the table no longer in the hand. GTO play
only matters when you're in a hand against another GTO player.
To me GTO play is what you should try for when
- you're up against an unknow player until you find something to exploit
- you're up against another GTO player
- you're up against a better player
Any other time exploitive play seems a lot more lucrative to me.