Sunday, March 8, 2009

new initiative: the Royal 'we'...you know, the editorial...


sean mentioned something in a recent video that reminded me of something i've been meaning to think about - exploiting prevailing collective player tendencies. 

the spot sean talks about is playing paired boards.  his premis is that, as a group, players bluff too often on these boards and that many players have made that same observation.  if i understand correctly, he wants to exploit the collective tendency by weighting his betting/raising range toward value hands (value betting thinly and bluffing rarely), and widen his calling (bluff-catching) range. 

those adjustments make logical sense, but that's not quite enough for us to immediately integrate them into our games.  we first need to compare that strategy to our current approach and then all other possible adjustments...  whatever, it would be a huge pain in the ass to try to do this rigorously, and it probably wouldn't be worth much more than just mulling over a few possibilities, but hopefully you see where i'm going. 

anyway, i think it would be very worthwhile to work on a collective Villain profile and think about how we can exploit 1) the projection of that image onto us, and 2) those tendencies in others.

idk, any thoughts? 


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