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Originally Posted by AlanBostick
Are you talking about implicit collusion, a.k.a "schooling"? Andy Morton was writing about it in rec.gambling.poker twenty years ago.
Yes, but probably not the way you're thinking about it. I'm not suggesting these dummies gain an edge by playing bad, but they do gain a collective edge against a marginally profitable subset of the pseudo GTO strategy that relies on others in certain positions playing reasonably.
Eg. I had a situation the other day where someone who thinks she plays good moved to my left and started cold calling me with all kinds of trash. She's spewing money against the top 80(?)%+ of my range (and to the blinds she's letting in cheap), but with her on my left playing too much junk passively and blinds being invited in I can no longer play a part of the pseudo gto optimal range profitably despite it being great for me if I adjust and just play stronger hands.