AlfieAA said:
Right ok cool, maybe I'm thinking of other things like bluffing, floating, check/raising, donking etc when fish wouldn't know what you were doing, particuarly the bluffing and floating part.......but yeah I suppose you could exploit them by doing things where you wouldn't need them to react or understand a certain tactic.....you know what I mean?
no, the assumption an opponent needs to understand a play to make it viable is completely backwards. opponents not understanding what we are doing allows us to have an exploitative strategy.
as examples.
super fish limp/calls any two cards and only calls flop with TP or better or a flush draw. to exploit this we can isolate with atc and cbet give up on dry boards. and barrel on flush draw boards.
opponent steals extremely wide cbets his entire range but only turn cbets with his value range and c/f all his air. we call our entire flop range and fold to turn bets and bet when checked too.
villian doesnt like folding. we c/r our sets and overpairs because they wont fold enough.
villain only cbets the top of his range but doesnt like folding. we donk a wide value range.
villain autoraises donk bets HU, we lead all of our sets/2pair/TPTK hands.
none of these rely on villain understanding our strategy. if anything they require villian to not understand what we are doing in order for it to be effective.
disclaimer: these are all extreme and reasonably unrealistic examples i made up, dont light money on fire by trying them, but you get the idea.
we identify a tendency or weakness. and determine the best way to exploit it.
Particularly in any theoretical mistakes like you just pointed out.
