i feel people are under-estimating the importance of allowing your opponents to make mistakes, but i may be interpreting this in a far broader sense than decisions on one street or one hand. it has been said that this is especially less relevant at the micros, but i feel the opposite, it is at the micros where people are more likely to be making mistakes, and their mistakes are likely to be more glaring and exploitable than say, a 100nl reg (i assume).
basically i think that most, if not all opponents, are going to have huge leaks at the micros which are very profitable for those who can spot them, and know how to exploit them. one mistake they make may be not knowing how "manipulate the pot size" or not knowing how to hand read, my interpretations pretty broad. however we have to play our range in a way that allows them to make these mistakes, even better perpetuates them. an example - i found a regular on absolute that opened a pretty standard nitty TAG range, like 10/8, 9/7 or something, and he never folded any pocket pairs to a 3bet, and 4bet QQ+. he pretty much raise/called hoping to setmine and turned pretty weak/tight postflop. he may peel one street on the flop if there's only one over, but folds to a second barrel with say, 88 on T256. obvious thing for me to do vs this guy is start 3betting a heap of hands in position, because he is going to let me know when he has QQ+,AK preflop, and he's going to smooth with a shitload of small pairs, which means i can cbet a huge % of boards and he check/folds 3bet pots to me. over and over again. villain's mistake here imo is that his range is so unbalanced and predictable. he is defending his opening range vs 3bets way too wide and is opening himself up to exploitation postflop, however had i not spotted this, and just 3bet a standard QQ+ or whatever range, i wouldnt have allowed him to make such a mistake. because i would be 3betting a strong range that made his setmining against me far less of a mistake, because his implied odds are better etc etc.
edit: another mistake i feel he's making here is not adjusting to my 3bets. he could start tightening his 3b calling range, or his opening range, he could possibly start 4betting wider, maybe JJ, AQs+ or even TT because i'm probably folding like 60% of my 3bets to against this guy, and AKs, AQs dont do TOO badly vs QQ or KK. i'm ranting again so i'll go back to school work.
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