Deviating from GTO
Posted by R0b5ter
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Deviating from GTO
Say we are raising a normal range UTG and get 3 bet by a very nitty player on the button. Say for the examples sake that we have him on a 3bet of 2% in this situation over a huge sample. According to GTO we should have a minimum defense frequency of somewhere in the area of 60%. We have our set strategy with constructed defense ranges which we can almost play robotically. The question I have is in this particular situation are we always deviating from GTO and turning ourselves exploitable by tightening up our defense range substantially? I mean I know some of the GTO talk would be that if he is 3betting so small we will profit by him never 3bet bluffing us plus we will make a lot of money with AA etc. But the thing is we could do that PLUS profit by folding each time he 3bet us except with the very top of our range. So is an exploitave based approach always alright in these spots?
Another example could be where we have a strong hand on the river say AA on 9,9,x,x,x rainbow. We raised preflop IP and bet all streets. On the river we get XR all in for a huge overbet. Our read says the player has never done something like this before and has an extremely low XR%. According to GTO we have to be defending a healthy percent here in order to not get exploited and AA is probably one of those hands. But with my exploitave experience would probably fold nearly everything except boats here. Is this kind of deviation from GTO wrong here?
I know these questions are probably very trivial and I have a good feeling for the answers myself but I still would like to hear what other players say about this.
Thanks
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