The importance of playing your opponent:

ISF emphasizes this a shitload, i just wanted to talk about it.

When it comes to donkeys, there are simple ways to beat them, and beat them for a nice clip. With tight solid players, however, it's hard to really beat them with strategy alone. Lets say i know player A cont bets K and Q high flops a good amount, but only calls raises with TP, a draw, or better. So i start raising his cont bets real light and now i've made a winning strategic play. However, although these strategic plays can combine to give a decent edge, it's inevitable that this player will take advantage of you in some ways and this will discount a little bit of that edge.

The reason donkeys are so crushable is because they either make huge mistakes, or they make a lot of small mistakes and exploit yours at all (assuming your good enough to recognize and take advantage of all those mistakes). So then how do you take advantage of player who strategy wise are just not going to make those mistakes?

You mess with them. And it's really not that hard.

Lets take this example: you're facing a relatively unknown tagg who seems like a reg. You raise preflop in the CO and he calls. The flop comes Kxx two tone and you check, he throws out a bet and you c/r. Now we're not really concerned about what our hand is here because the focus is the opponent and what he views.

Now lets say he folds here. Most players are going to be discouraged from bluffing or betting a weak hand here again in fears that he'll have to deal with a c/r again. Most players will adjust the same way and play very predictably (a word isf uses a lot) in this spot, and now you're going to almost want to purposely get into this situation cause it will be so easy for you.

Now instead of pushing small strategic edges against a regular, you are pushing a big edge where you're going to be able to play almost flawlessly everytime. So make sure to watch your actions so you can figure out how your opponent is adjusting to your play. Then you can get into more of these situations and actually dominate him.