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Originally Posted by Lezaleas
While I agree GTO is unnecesary for the micros, studying GTO does help your exploitative play. It also starts being directly useful from NL20 and up. I`m crushing regs at NL20 and 50 that have no idea how to defend against an overbet or defend his capped ranges or dont even seem to understand bluffcatching. If I were to start learning poker from scracth again I would do the grinders manual or something like that, play 30k hands in the micros, and then jump directly into tMoP, applications and GTO study
Right now I am doing Red Chip Poker Core which has some GTO principles but their application is more situation related vs being the general strategy. I see the validity of it vs good players which I run in to from time to time. There's probably a handful of players I see enough to have me convinced that online poker is their income. Against them I tend to focus on balance and having bluffs in my range and utilizing blockers, etc. The really good ones make sick adjustments and I'm pretty sure they are using GTO. Their bet sizing and bluff catcher showdown cards make it appear like they do.
After I am done CORE I may look in to some GTO. I'm not against it or think it's not a good strategy. I am just happy with my current win rates but know there is always room for improvement.
