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Originally Posted by RolldUpTrips
Maybe it's a function of the stakes that I play, but it's astonishing to me that so many people want to fold this hand. Maybe at smaller stakes folding is correct? I have no idea.
i wanna say yes but i doubt i've had much interaction with your player pool.
what i will say is from my own experience and observations, many of the GTO calls one might be making are payoff calls on the lower end of the stake spectrum. you just run into a lot more weaktight nits, for one, or people who just don't have their bluffing frequencies at the right level.
and i contrast that to my own experiences of higher stakes play (about up to mid-stakes) and observations of higher stakes, and that's where i do see those bluffs normalize more.
i will add, though, that this thread has been pretty useful for me in correcting how i view the bottom of my range. like, i had a hand vaguely similar to this one today where i ended up calling OTR with a J and picked off a bluff. and that was a direct result of your response and discussing it with someone else (thanks, guys!). to further add onto that, it didn't seem at all good to fold because i expected my opponents to be bluffing closer in-line to correct frequencies, given the stakes. but probably if i were playing something like 2/4, i wouldn't really even think much of folding. whether i would or not is a different question, but i'd certainly be more inclined to make an exploitative fold against someone who probably isn't adhering to a solid strategy.
Last edited by kisada; 07-08-2020 at 07:34 PM.