MDF is fine when you have no reads on your opponent. I looked at V’s profile and see he has won over 5 billion chips in 4 months. That alone makes him a hyper aggro player who also understands exploitative poker, and that’s all the read anyone needs.
Facing a min raise in position, HA players will raise almost any 2 cards. Call this a “soul read” if using a derogatory term for a part of the game you don’t understand makes you feel better, whatever. Make up a number like “99.999% useless” if this helps sustain your delusion.
HA players miss the flop 2/3 of the time like everyone else. If checked to, they will c-bet close to 100% of the time. Think about that. Think about what that means. Do the math.
Specific player types exhibit specific tendencies. If you bother to learn how to identify player types, a careful statistical analysis will reveal these tendencies. These are deviations from “optimal” play, and they can be exploited. Unless you would rather pretend they can’t possibly exist.
Your open was too small, which set a chain in motion. When checked to, of course he’s going to bet at you. You won’t check raise, and the line you took 100% guarantees he will try to run you over. On this hand, on the next hand, on every hand.
2/3 of the time, his c-bet is a bluff. You can’t think of one hand he would call a raise with on that flop? No, you can’t think of a hand YOU would call a raise with. HA would call at least once with a lot of hands, depending on your bet sizing. A + bottom pair, A + middle pair, most of his flush draws. HA players are looking to take a card off, and are happy to do it on the chance that they turn a card that they can stack you with.
Min raising a HA player is putting a “kick me” sign on your back. Open 5 or 6 BBs in that spot and open up your 4! range. You wanna flat there, OK, but remember he can be playing any 2 cards. “Wait for a hand, then trap” is not ever gonna cut it. “Hope to hit this flop” is suicide. Check raise, put him in a tuff spot, and force him to adjust to you.
Call this whatever you want. I call it pokering. I’m sorry your simulators suck at player modeling. No, wait, they don’t even try. I guess if no books have been written about it, it can’t possibly be a “thing.” I guess the last 2-3 years of correlating player types to tendencies through detailed statistical analysis has been a total waste of my time, doh!
EDITED to add: Look, I’m sorry if I come across as confrontational here, it’s not my intent. For the record, I greatly respect 1Warlock and JoeDirk. Joe solicited opinions, I gave mine. I understand that the way I word things can seem aggressive. I’m not looking for a fight. I like talking pokering, and I understand that my approach is not in keeping with current modes of thought. I just think that the current modes are wrong. OK, not wrong, but incomplete. I love you all, if you were here, maybe we could cuddle, OK?