Disillusion this banana during his downswing

My $0.02 on the solver based input is that it's useful to understand what solvers would do and why, in order to establish a baseline from which we can deviate based on our reads.

I think the reads can be useful for making adjustments to specific situations in live play, but very often the reads on specific V's aren't as useful as generic population reads.

Live node-locking is a thing. We can decide that our opponents are opening too wide and calling too wide, even when calling 3B's, and deduce that argues in favor of raising even larger than the solver would.

We can deduce that our opponents tend to make more mistakes in certain lines post flop, and induce them to make those mistakes by taking those lines.

Sub may stomp on people's egos, but he's not wrong that many of the hands that get posted here are made more complicated than they need to be, or would be, if the hero had a better understanding of how theory applies to the situation before deviating.

Deviating from a theoretically sound baseline is basically just winging it and hoping for the best.

+1M at low levels, even if they’re otherwise good players. There’s nothing wrong with nit folding pf, or any other street.

I lost $7300 over 8 sessions last year. I took five months off, and am up $4000 first 7 sessions.

But like someone posted a couple years ago, you can be a ev+ player and there’s still about a 16% chance you’ll be down after six million hands.

I’m playing MUCH tighter oop pf and 3betting MUCH more ip. I’ve reduced playing ssc’s by over 90% in general and by 99.9% oop and by 100% for a raise.

I’ve also stopped making hero calls on all streets. Thinking everyone’s a fish is a bad idea but at raked 1-3/2-5, if they’re betting big they usually have it.

Why don’t you ever see anyone running out of a casino?

i post like a dick sometimes but the issue we keep running into in these conversations is people think they are deviating when they don't have a (good) base line strategy or even an approximation of what that would look like in any / every spot. its really hard to talk about a lot of these hands and strategy on any kind of in depth or even surface level discussion because its like talking having a book club with people who haven't done the homework and refuse to do it / look at it. the game is solved to enough of a level of precision that there isn't much to talk about once you start looking at solvers, certainly not with people around / below your skill level who don't play in your player pool (talking to better people is always going to beneficial imo). but people aren't ready to hear that and instead want to essentially answer math questions with english essays to preserve their egos

Don't sell yourself short. You post like a dick a lot.

I'm not angry about it. I appreciate your input. It adds rigor to the debate.

i believe our egos (and posting styles) in particular are a poor match for one another but i think i have generally been a more positive poster the last few months!