Hey, thanks for your answer, with these 3 nits after us what would be the bottom of your opening range?

I just wrote this under a similar post today it fits here also:

First of all you need to differ the stealing positions CO/BTN/SB

in these positions you can have elastic opening ranges, how much you deviate depends on the sample of hands you have of your opponents and how inelastic they are in their response.

here is a quote of a Top10 6max player in the world about this topic:

“Start to make explo adjustments on BTN/SB/BB villains by your openraise strategy CO (and of course the same for BTN, SB). For example I would explo openraise on the CO 30% vs weak passive players behind and openraise 50% on the BTN. We never want to go overboard with these kind of adjustments and I would never openraise more than 50% on the BTN. We also have to take into account the colliding ranges on the Flop if we explo openraise wider. Which means we will be playing with a wider range on the Flop against a tighter range than average, we already exploited our opponent preflop, so we have to cbet less in this spot to keep our preflop exploit profitable.”

So basically we are almost inelastic in MP

Very interesting, thanks!

Is this for the sake of balance/ not being counter-adjusted quickly?

I mean, logically, if I play in a field where the pool will be overly passive postflop, folds too much in various hotspots at a point where I can open 72o OtB and make long-term profit, it is a bit counter-intuitive to start folding it?

Even though in EP it makes a lot more sense that it will be inelastic given that much more oponents are left to act, the probability to get 3bet goes higher and higher quickly. It makes more sense intuitively because if "oponents agregated 3bet%"= X, X tends to the "infinite" if we go more and more early position ^^

You need a reasonable samplesize of all the 4 players behind you to make such huge deviations. Which also means your opening yourself up for huge counter exploits, because your basically pointing fingers at their mistakes, which is not a good approach in terms of exploiting in poker in general.

It's similar to a Rock/Paper/Scissor game

Your opponents throw Rock 40% (instead 33% GTO) of times, and you start throwing Paper for 10 rounds straight. Even a guy with bad mathematical understanding will figure out what your doing, cause you point your finger at his bad strategy.

Instead of throwing Paper 40% of times, less explo strategy but more EV longterm cause not detectable by a weak opponent.