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As for wide ranges and deep stack NLHE family pots, I think that format is so far away from solved, that GTO may not be worthwhile (Even if a solution exists).
Well there are standard plays and profitable exploits that we should be making, but understanding why and when to make the standard play is, is pretty much the gto of multiway poker imo. Knowing that we're making an exploitive strike isn't necessarily the source of our ev with a particular exploitive play. However I think that having a good idea of where the margin lies is crucial to understanding the ev of such plays even on an intermediate level.
I have a loose theory regarding how far from the margin we can exploit, depending on which street we're on, the number of opponents, and how many bets have gone in.
On the most basic level, if everything is equal, there is the most room for exploitation on the river heads up. On a deeper level? I think we would have to break it down into categories:
exploitive folds: 0ev exploit to avoid a -ev call vs a value heavy opponent. A penny saved is a penny earned. Very valuable on the river when the pot is large.
exploitive calls: slightly + ev relative to folding, even on the river a bluffcatcher's ev will be zero or slightly positive with rare exception.
exploitive bets: many possibilities for exploitation here. Slightly profitable with low equity relative to folding, but very profitable with high equity relative to folding. Very valuable on the river with value hands, because bluffcatchers are drawing dead. Not so valuable on the river with bluffs.