Modern Poker Theory: Building an unbeatable strategy based on GTO principles

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I suggest my students use a ratio of 80% play to 20% study, but my own ratio has probably been the exact opposite! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Back then, players often formed social groups where they would exchange ideas and build on each other’s insight. This might go down as the best poker book ever written--Brandon Adams, Professional Poker Player ----- I can’t imagine that a more comprehensive book on the subject of GTO will ever be written.

Most of the other players simply won't make these large-scale mistakes, which is a big reason why you will never turn a huge profit against them. I don't know of anyone familiar with Mason's body of work as a reviewer who believes that he isn't "fair and balanced" (to coin a phrase). Start by asking which hands are consistent with Villain’s actions, and then add those to the range one by one.As you can see, his red line (money won without showdown) is very positive over quite a large sample. All content on this site is intended for those 21 or older or of legal gambling age in their jurisdiction. I feel this can often be best expressed by the few mistakes here or there, digressions, eccentricities and going over topics previously covered by authors.

I must confess that I am almost never playing exact GTO, that I am constantly jumping between models and finding ways to widen and adapt based on my observations of my opponents. It is used to create the perfect solution in each situation and prevent your opponents from exploiting you. To make correct assumptions in certain spots, a player needs to play thousands of hands against that opponent.Every exploitative strategy you use can be beat by a different exploitative strategy, and it can start to feel like a guessing game. But if you know that you made the right decision because your decision is part of a correct GTO strategy, losing the hand will not discourage you from making that correct decision next time. You’ll have to make inferences based on showdowns and player pool tendencies, and you need to be ready to adjust back to your default strategy if your inferences start to seem wrong.

Because GTO focuses on protecting your actions in each situation rather than exploiting your opponents' actions it is considered a defensive strategy. Full Range Stats Instead of going through this tedious process by hand each and every time we want to break down a poker situation, we can use range analysis software such as flopzilla. Next time you are at a table some of the players will have studied Modern Poker Theory and some won't.

GTO is not a strategy that makes the most money in every situation unless you are playing against players that know your strategy inside out. The book’s mastermind Michael Acevedo has arrived and he is taking us along for the ride, so strap on your seat belts and get ready to learn a LOT about poker! His background as a mathematician and expertise in process improvement helped him master the theoretical aspects of poker. The HUD was about the most functional and deepdiving HUD I had ever seen and I have used quite a few paid-for HUDs.

On page 53 on the exploration of the MinEqR there's an example of BB facing UTG 2bb open and a pot of 5. That's because, and this is our opinion, when someone, perhaps like yourself purchases a good book, you'll be inclinded to purchase more poker books.The formula to find the number of combinations of k objects you can choose from a set of n objects is as follows (note that in all of these examples the “! So the number of hands is about the same (and the hands that the button would 3-bet with are not included).