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Originally Posted by Adebola
Apologies if this point has been brought up before (if someone could point me in the right direction if so that wouldbe much appreciated). I notice in the preflop section that the cold call IP ranges are much wider than a lot of good players recommend, and I believe pokersnowie flats much tighter than the ranges in AoNLHE. Has your view on this changed significantly since time of writing? Or do you think that in a lot of relatively soft games flatting much more hands is a good exploitative strategy?
If you do think that in theory IP cold call ranges should be tighter than the ranges in AoNLHE, are there any adjustments you would make to the post-flop chapters because of this (e.g. OOP checking some boards 100%) or do you think the concepts apply as long as you consider the new range instead of the old ones?
Thanks for any thoughts on the topic!
I think the pre-flop section of the book aged worse than any section of the book by a pretty wide margin.
GTO pre-flop ranges likely will look very, very different from the best ranges to use in the actual games you're playing though. IN other words, if the games you're playing give you a big enough edge to beat the rake, you probably can play many hands pre-flop that in theory would be BE or -EV vs GTO opponents (especially due to the rake).
I think defending OOP and the bet-sizing information in Applications aged really well. I think there's probably a fair amount of updating I could do if I re-wrote the book, but I think for the most part it's conceptually sound and wouldn't be worth the time (or extra $40 readers would have to pay) to get the updated book when Applications mostly got it right, mostly.
IIRC when Applications came out, the most common PM I got was how I was recommending way too much checking vs strong villains when the biggest winners CB way more often even at MSNL (and probably HSNL). So like I'd recommend CB 40% check 60% in some spots, and people that that was way too much checking. Solvers/Snowie in many of those same spots actually recommend checking 90%+.