I know the answer to all my solver-related questions is "just buy a solver bro", but I just wanted to ask a couple of general questions regarding solvers and GTO to test my intuition - at some point I will probably get a solver, just to improve my understanding, although I don't really have the time for all of that atm.
These questions are probably going to sound a little dumb to some of you so bare with me.
My understanding of solvers is that they show you how to construct your ranges both pre and postflop. Is this correct?
Out of position you are supposed to do more checking than betting right? Unless you have the range advantage on certain boards like Ace high boards as the preflop raiser?
On boards that give you the range/nut advantage you should play more aggressively in position? Like on a 987ss flop as the preflop caller in position.
On bad turn or river cards for your range, for example a flush completing turn or river, of either the 4 flush or 3 flush variety, if we are against opponents who will attack weakness with or without a hand, should we be checking 100% as not to leak information or have an overly complex strategy? Similarly, there are other spots where we should be checking 100% I assume.
Against more aggressive players, I'm assuming the GTO solution is somewhere in between this minimalist leaking information strategy and combating with a more aggressive style consisting of more raises with value hands/bluffs/semi-bluffs. Whereas in live play, most players exploits vs aggressive players consists of polarizing to one end of the spectrum.
Solvers don't construct your preflop ranges... in general. Some are able to, but if you just have a normal computer, and not a whole network of them, you're not going to have the computing power to solve preflop anyways. There are solved sets of PF ranges based on stack sizes, blind structure, and rake that range in price between several hundred to a couple of thousand dollars. If you just get Pio (or much more preferably GTO+ for the price), you're going to start each simulation by building pf ranges of your own.
From there, you set the initial conditions by inputting the flop, stack sizes, bet sizings you'd like the computer to use, and other factors, like donking/non donking. Then the simulation runs and gives you optimal strategies for the two players. You can then go in and node-lock, that is change one player's actions from the optimal output to what they're likely to do in real life, then you run the sim again and it gives you like a perfect strategy to max out vs a person's leaks.
Just a warning. This guy (and some others like him) are really off-base sometimes. Solvers are only as good as what you input and I have seen some ridiculous stuff in this guy’s solver work before that is highly unlikely to be close to accurate (ex: absurd inclusions in preflop ranges).
Just saying.
can someone give finding equilibrium like 4 redbulls, an adrenaline injection and a bump of cocaine before he makes his next video because his content is so slow, dry, and boring i've never been able to watch a full video he's put out, ever.
