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Originally Posted by JLot
It caps with a much wider range than you would typically expect and oddly it checks a high % of flops to the button after a SB check. The reasons for these actions are not yet clear to me, but that's what it does as part of its equilibrium. It's a clear departure from what is current practice in the live games I play in and I'd be interested in the community's feedback as to why this might be.
OOP checking happens a lot in NL as well. It seems to favor this line as a defensive mechanism to try to carry many more hands to the next decision point and closer to showdown.
I assume your sim is also playing against other agents that are also playing optimal so I would imagine that the oop player is expecting a bet to go in a large majority of the time any way and that players defend optimally against a cbet so that the turn scenario looks largely the same in terms of pot size and player make up. So checking just happens to save some fraction of a SB the times a bet doesn't go in from opponents.
