GTO Poker Simplified: Strategy lessons from the solvers that any cash game or tournament player can apply to their game (The Poker Solved Series)

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This is the core of the benefits and costs of an exploitative strategy. You stand to win much more when your assumptions are correct, but you open yourself up to exploitation. If your opponent adjusts, you lose. If your assumptions are incorrect you lose by exploiting yourself. If, however, you only play a GTO style you can only profit when your opponent leaves themselves open to exploitation. If you both play GTO you will end up playing to a stalemate, but if either of you divert from a GTO strategy you will leave yourself open to exploitation.

What if Player 1 misjudges Player 2, who starts to counter adjust? Player 2 notices Paper is coming up more often and makes a similar counter adjustment, switching to Scissors half the time and the other two options a quarter of the time each. The new outcome looks like this: Should you have Available Funds in any 888 account, please rest assured they are secure and you can withdraw them at any time in accordance with the applicable withdrawal policies, as follows:However, if you include bluffs in 25% of your combinations, your opponent’s calls and folds make no difference whatsoever. The best way to understand GTO strategy is to recognise its alternative, which is exploitative strategy. All players are essentially exploitative players because nobody can employ a perfect GTO strategy. You exploit your opponents whenever you adjust your strategy to capitalise on a weakness of theirs. You open yourself up to exploitation whenever you deviate from a perfect GTO strategy. You exploit others and open yourself up to exploitation all the time, however when you learn GTO you do so to a lesser degree.

Exploitative players will make more money when their reads are correct, but GTO players do not need to worry about their reads being correct, they can just play in any game. Another reason to sacrifice short term EV to play a GTO style is because it is generally much easier to play GTO from a mindset perspective. I am reminded of a quote from Bertrand Russell which sums up the benefits of being a GTO player, he said “what men really want is not knowledge but certainty”.The last couple of years of poker have seen an increasing move to understand and apply GTO poker solutions to today’s game. In doing that, there’s been a lot of confusion in the poker community about what GTO (game theory optimal) actually is, and how and when to apply GTO solutions to a given poker situation. We’d like to clear up that confusion and also make a case for why software like Leak Buster is still very important to learning and growing as a poker player. What is GTO poker? An important message for customers - a few early readers struggled with the solver images in this book and assumed there was a printing issue. The confusion was actually because they skipped past the first chapter called 'Read This First' which included a guide on how to interpret the hand charts. Make sure to read the very beginning of the book to avoid this issue (we renamed it to 'Do Not Skip This Section' because so many people skipped it). This should be common sense, but in all poker situations, if there’s an opportunity to exploit your opponents play, you should do it. You only make money in poker when your opponent makes a mistake (takes an non-optimal line) and allows you to exploit that mistake.

I have seen countless misunderstandings of GTO (game theory optimal), which is totally understandable; it is a difficult concept. Thus I decided to take a shot at explaining it as clearly as I can while also being comprehensive. If I missed anything let me know! When you are capable of having bluffs and value in every spot, you become difficult to exploit. When you are only ever bluffing or only ever value betting in a spot, you become very easy to play against.

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Congrats guys. When GTO became a widespread thing I had been a pro for 10 years, yet I still would have benefited from a book like this greatly. Can’t imagine a more valuable book for normies in 2022, especially known it’s written by you two.

GTO in poker stands for Game Theory Optimal. It’s a complex set of rules that helps the player make the best possible move in a game of no-limit Hold’em and protects them from getting exploited. Dara O'Kearney is a professional poker player, sponsored Unibet Pro and the co-host of The Chip Race Podcast. He is highly regarded as one of the best tournament grinders and poker coaches in the world, with a particular focus on modern solver technology. He is the co-author of Poker Satellite Strategy, PKO Poker Strategy and Endgame Poker Strategy.The GTO Ranges App by Red Chip Poker constitutes the end-point of the most ambitious and extensive GTO research project we have ever conducted. It is also very much an ongoing project. Not only do we have a mountain of data on hand that we intend to disseminate to you, we are also continuing to run our servers to further investigate the nuances of preflop GTO poker.