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I've had this post of Fnord's up for a few days now. At first I kinda didnt get it, then I realised I think I do most of what he's talking about, I just dont think of it in the same terms:
 Originally Posted by Fnord
Leaning on weak players, reading hands and playing hands against poor players is.
I crush weak players by getting them to take 2-3 way flops against me with weak hands and/or poor position. Then I apply pressure to hit a flop. If I think they're peeling light, I confront them with a second barrel for an uncomfortable sum of money. If I think they're trapping or give too much action I shut it down and get a lot of free cards. If they play back at me, I'll ship it in with any good piece of equity.
Against stronger players, reading hands, body language, stuckiness, winning the fight to isolate the fish, etc. is more important. If you can figure out what they have sometimes, you will probably have an edge or at least be a little less worse off.
I dont really get how we get them to take 2-3 way flops against us. Not sure if he means overlimping, or raising when we expect more than 1 fish to call? Overall though, he's talking about is exploiting specific fish tendencies. Most regs in my experience suck at exploiting fish. They think they're good at it, but they're not. They make isolation raises with a wide range PF and then cbet 100% then shut down and pat themselves on the back about how awesomely they exploited the fish. Theres so much more to it though.
Specifically, you should be exploiting the specific fish in question. What are their leaks?!! For instance I've seen a number of players that limp PF and fold to raises, but cant fold any piece of the board postflop. Reggy Mc'NonThinker raises preflop and congratulates himself on making an extra BB. I overlimp with two high cards and when I hit TP I take them to value town and win 30BBs.
Heres a specific example. I hope he doesnt mind me talking about it here. I reviewed dev's video. He starts out with position on a fish who does these dumb little donk minbets/small bets on postflop streets. Shortly in we see a showdown and he'd called TT preflop then donked small on 3 streets on a JJ567 board. So we now know he's doing those small bets when he has something but is weak. Great info. The next question is, does he fold those weak hands to raises, or does he call with them anyway? How we adjust is totally different. If he folds then we call down and maybe raise river when we have decent hands and raise with our air/weak hands, if he calls then we raise our decent hands and just fold when we miss. Dev hits two pair on turn against him a little later and raises and the guy folds, so it looks like he folds his weak hands. Our plan now should be to isolate a lot PF and raise him off his weak donk bets with our air a lot. Instead dev continued overlimping and trying to hit hands. He was correctly identifying and trying to play hands against the fish, but he wasnt adjusting how to exploit the fish based on the info we got.
Anyway, that kind of thing I think I'm pretty good at. Heres a quote from Marshall in that thread from Fnord though:
 Originally Posted by Marshall28
I think I make money when I manipulate my perceived range to cause opponents to either undervalue or overvalue the particular part of their range they are holding to suit my needs.
I have to admit I really dont get what he's saying here, or how to implement what he means. Anyone got some ideas on that?
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