I've been experimenting with node locking on Pio to develop strategies vs loose-passive and loose-aggressive players.

I'm not sure if these definitions are correct, but I would define loose-passive players as:

• Play around 40-50% of hands preflop

• Tend to call flop bets with any pair, any draw, and any Ace or King high

• Only bet on the flop with Top pair+, and never bluff or raise.

And I would define loose-aggressive players as:

• Play around 40-50% of hands preflop (same as loose-passive)

• Tend to call flop bets with any pair, any draw, and any Ace or King high (same as loose-passive)

• Bet the flop very frequently with any pair (top pair, underpair, middle pair, third pair, etc), any draw, and any Ace or King high.

The strategies that Pio recommends versus these players are very different.

Versus the loose-passive player, it is very straightforward:

1) Bet all strong hands (including top pair+) for value and vulnerable hands with SDV (like low pairs) very frequently for protection.

2) Check invulnerable pairs (like pocket Queens on a King-high board) very frequently

3) Bet draws very frequently

4) If we check, and Villain bets, fold everything but our strongest made hands and draws

However, against loose-aggressive players, Pio recommends a very different strategy.

1) Bet very infrequently on the flop - only bet weak pairs.

2) Check top pair+, draws, and air.

3) However, if Villain bets with a weak range, Pio recommends a super aggressive check-raise strategy. We should check raise polarized with all of our top pair+ hands, and all of our draws.

I'm wondering... Do the assumptions I've been using with Pio/ node locking translate well into real situations in live low stakes poker?

Versus loose-passive players in live low stakes games, does it make sense to play a straightforward strategy of

1) Betting top pair+ for value

2) Betting weak pairs for protection

3) Betting draws

4) Check folding everything else

And versus loose-passive players who c-bet way too frequently with trash, does it make sense to:

1) Only bet weak hands with SDV OOP

2) Check-raise aggressively with strong hands for value + draws?

I've been spending a lot of time trying to develop strategies versus types of players I might encounter in live lowstakes games. Does anyone have any general tips on what sort of characteristics many of them have, and how we can use Piosolver to exploit them?