5. Nodelock to simulate different player types:
In practice, we face opponents who make mistakes. Your job is to learn to exploit them properly. Use nodelocking to simulate opponents' mistakes and learn how to adjust against them.
2/ When we nodelock the BTN to isolate to even 20, UTG almost purely want to limp, it’s an effective strat versus opponents that are too aggressive preflop versus limp, which is almost everyone.
right, i would assume that a lot of player are well studied in these spots would be calling that tight in theory so this is understanding can be applicable while lots of player types will be a few pips too wide and sometimes extremely OOL so also understanding how to nodelock is gto
I feel like all you do is post engagement bait lately 😂
Better equity relation. Better blockers, better barrel opportunities. But as always, you need to nodelock pre to figure out what to actually open vs your actual opponents
MYTH: "I can just nodelock my solver to adjust for the population."
REALITY: Manual nodelocking adjusts one node at a time. The population deviates across the entire tree (preflop, flop, turn and river).
Nodelocking one node while ignoring 200k others isn't exploitative play.
I got some insider knowledge here since i was in the stream😅 Default this isnt close at all, but the issue here is SB just bluffed his stack away, and could be tilted. Means we face a SB range that could be way to wide. We are still last in chips, else i would never consider to call this one. I would like to see a nodelock SB range
I ended up folding. Going to analyze this with ICM solver to see what his jam & my call range looks like then nodelock for adjustments vs a player who doesn’t jam wide enough.
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I'm beginning to think Clanty's signature miniature IP 3-bet is overpowered.
100bb deep, UTG opens 2x, Clanty bumps it up to like 4.8bb(?!). In a vacuum this sizing is suboptimal. But practically speaking it's got merit.
UTG needs to defend extremely wide; most players will struggle defending this postflop. And if you nodelock a more realistic (slightly passive) response, all of a sudden it's printing preflop and HJ gets to enter the pot much wider than usual.
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People think that GTO is what adefaultsolution based on nash equilibrium final iteration of iterations tells them but in reality GTO from HERO perspective is when you nodelock villains strategy and adjust accordingly. So betting 100% IS GTO as long as it doesn't get countered IMO
There's a reason @hungryhorsepokr advocates for checking to recreational players on the flop. It's well known that fish turn their hands face up when you check to them on dynamic textures.
Example: BvB on QJ9r. If BB has a “bet any pair” tendency, SB can exploit by checking range and letting BB self-identify strength. Sure, “bet any pair” is an extreme nodelock. But it doesn’t take much information asymmetry before the optimal play funnels every hand into this line.
Moral of the story: Sometimes you need to take your foot off the gas and let your opponent tell you what they have.