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Originally Posted by nomoD
That's pretty much what I'm saying. You can get the average of all UTG opens and look at that range, but what good is the average? You are never playing vs the average, you are playing against a certain category of player.
If you adopted the average opponent counterstrategy against the two players I listed above, you are going to be playing too loosely against one type and too tightly against the other.
You need to find the best strategy vs the first type AND the best strategy vs the second type and then use whichever strategy is called for vs the player in that seat at the table. And this is difficult to do with the small samples available to you.
I think you are talking about playing a GTO strat.
Any time you make an exploitive play you thus make yourself exploitable. If you are playing with loose calling stations you adjust to a more value heavy range because that is the most profitable way you know how to play against them. In doing this you have now made your range too value heavy and a player can exploit you by folding whenever you raise, until you adjust again.
If you want to play perfectly against player A without being exploited by player B, you need to play a GTO strat. If you want to get the most profit from player A and player B, you need to exploit their weaknesses.
If you just want to know about particular hands, like what the average player in the pool is doing, you need to make an alias for all other players and run a hole cards filter.