Been seeing a fair bit this week about poker sites getting stricter on assist tools and real-time help, and it feels like the whole way people study and play is shifting again. Even at lower stakes you run into spots now where blokes are taking these weird tiny flop bets, odd check backs, thin river value... stuff that used to be way less common.
Not saying everyone suddenly turned into a crusher overnight lol, but the games do feel different from even a year or two back. Less random punting in some pools, more players with decent preflop discipline, and heaps more people clearly working off charts or solver ideas in some form. Then you still get the absolute chaos merchants on a Sunday arvo, so who knows.
What I am curious about is how you lot are adjusting. Are you leaning more exploitative now and just punishing the copy-paste regs when they go too far with the GTO stuff, or are you properly studying spots and building a more solid baseline yourself? I reckon a lot of players get stuck in the middle and end up doing neither very well.
Keen to hear what changes you've made lately, especially for cash games and small-field MTTs. Stuff like c-bet frequencies, blind defence, 3-bet pots, river decisions... whatever's been working. Feels like the old ABC approach still prints in some games, then in others you get carved up if you're too straightforward. Curious where everyone's at with it.