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Originally Posted by David Sklansky
How about a specific example? In any case there could be some intransivity involved in this question. There could be B+ mid stakes players who seriously study what a bot would do and stick fairly close to that in their smaller games and thus don't match their A rated expert exploiting weaker players, colleagues. But they would less to the elites.
If I was great at this stuff I'd be a great player instead of a middling reg myself, so my advice would be to check some hands posted in the HS hands thread or to watch some breakdowns on YouTube of nosebleed hands from guys like Uri Peleg.
With that said, great regs will be able to identify weaknesses faster and with more nuance, and will be able to push villains into those lines at higher frequency by manipulating their own mixes.
For example (just something simple off the top of my head), if we know a villain is betting turns normally and underbluffing a river spot, we can overfold the river. But more sophisticated players can widen their turn calling range to capitalize on river underbluffing and capture additional ev that way. Even more sophisticated players might manipulate their flop ranges by changing what they x/r vs cbet to guide certain hand classes into and away from the river node.
Top level regs will have a wide array of these adjustments (many of which are far over my head) to lead regs into exploitable nodes more often and capture additional ev. They'll also be more knowledgeable and experienced in all the side lines (for example, stuff like donks, flop 3bets, and so on) and will likely capture additional advantage in side line nodes that msnl regs won't really be able to combat. They'll be able to preemptively tailor side line ranges to exploit likely mistakes (for example, overfolds or lack of raises) the msnl reg is making, and the reg probably won't even be aware of the exploits for a long time.
This is not some clairvoyant godlike perfect unattainable play, it's just a testament to deep understanding of the game forged through years of intense work, study, and high-level competition. Nobody is saying these guys are perfect, unbeatable players, but if you compare a top 1% or even top 0.01% performer to the absolute best in the world, there is going to be a large gulf there. Poker is no different.
Last edited by Duncelanas; 01-13-2024 at 06:08 AM.