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Thanks for the time and your thoughts on GTO. I studied it for a while but no longer interested in it. I even played one day thinking I was using GTO and kept on saying "what would the GTO play here be?" I crushed the games that day and thought GTO was something to just trick your mind into thinking and playing better poker .
Then when I figured out it was more a game of balancing frequencies . I laughed and thought …well, GL with that everybody
I've been studying "GTO" range-balancing approaches to poker for the past couple of months and I'm finding it fascinating, but I'd not heard of the "chicken" analogy before. That's a good way of describing the basic thinking behind the theory. Thanks for sharing.
Well, it's not possible to play GTO in the first place. Even in over-simplified nuts/total air situation on the river. The thing is that neither your opponent nor yourself know your exact range on the river.
So, the only time when it can really be GTO in a real game is semi-bluff push preflop. In all other cases the tree of future possibilities make it impossible to even be close to GTO.
Erm, you can't apply a GTO strategy against the wrong opponents, or get crushed if you're playing GTO. Hence the O in GTO, the strategy is optimal. In theory a GTO strategy can never lose, and if you're playing against someone playing GTO and you aren't playing GTO, you, by definition of GTO, would lose to them.
Realistically though how can someone actually play GTO?… Wouldn't you have to know exactly how you had played every other time that you were ever in that spot before. And in poker there are so many differing situations that you can find yourself in that keeping a record of how many times you had bluffed there would be near ipossible.
What are some good exploitative concepts to learn not including physical tells?
Cool, thanks for the info and also the book reference!
Isn't in general knowledge on 2p2 that Poker's 1% is absolute garbage?
When playing against fish you won’t get crushed playing GTO. You will win against them and everyone else not playing a gto math based style. You will probably win less then players exploiting fish and calling stations but it is a piece of mind strat knowing you will be winning in the long run.
I had no idea what gto meant, I thought it might be the German version of gta: Grand theft Otto