Just wondering peoples thoughts on playing against regs.

I don't believe there is any site or game type without at least of couple of regs multi-tabling the solid strategy for that game (if there is I'd love to find out). So here's my example:

I not long ago studied some hyper turbo 6max games, and it was clear to see which players had it worked out, and had good knowledge of ICM.

Too make it simple they knew when to start shoving with any 2 cards. I can see this going on, and lets assume my ICM knowledge is strong. It seems getting involved the regs in this situation isn't a bad thing at all. Of course they should catch on pretty quick.

Is it worth taking on these guys knowing whats going on, or just go simple and avoid them because it's unnecessary competition and there are fish elsewhere?

Interested in people's thoughts

They shouldn't be shoving any two cards unless they are chip leader on the bubble in which case you don't want to call unless it is genuinely good to call.

One way to exploit the robots is to min raise them on the button with ATC hoping they'll just fold.

Really though, the robots are the good players and you don't to mess with them all too much other than perhaps stealing a pot here and there.

From what I've noticed, once players have 10BB or less, due to the quickly rising blinds, they start shoving if they have first action from pretty much middle position on-wards. These are the guys with the winning lines, unless they are doing something else which I'm missing.

Or maybe their winning line would be bigger if as you say they didn't shove quite so often with any two. The idea that shoving creates a lot of folds and when called you still have roughly 30% chance of winning the hand it what makes me believe it's a solid strategy, assuming people tighten up at this stage.

If you min raise aren't you giving villain odds to call with almost any two cards particularly if they have chips and the blinds are high. In addition a min raise will be interpreted by some players as a weak attempt to steal which it is if your doing it with ATC. Would villain be more likely to fold to a min raise as opposed to 3x or 4x raise. I notice a lot of players min raising like this in micro stakes sit n gos and normally it is synonymous with a weak hand. I don't understand the thinking behind it.

I don't see why someone would choose to play against competent regs if they can avoid them and play against rec fish but I don't think its possible to avoid regs completely even at the micros so its a mute point really.

Cool, thanks for the post. Avoiding them obviously is the thing to generally do. My thoughts were if regs get so robotic they may become easy to play against and maybe other people had done this. I'll stick with avoiding them as much as possible, especially as my game isn't at the level where I need to take people like that on for action.