So i was looking at gto live 10% ranges and LOL. What a classic example of not blind trusting gto.
For those who dont know, the UTG range for gto wizard’s 10% live game is A2s+, ATo+, KTs, K5s, 65s, and TT+. Yes, it folds (almost all of) 99 and plays (almost all of) K5s.
So lets go into the why.
The goal of a GTO bot is actually not to win, its basically to minimize (their own) rake, and it assumes that its opponents are doing the same thing. Because preflop isnt raked, this means that villian GTO bots are playing an extremely high % of 3! Or fold, which means that the hero gto bot UTG ONLY cares about removal or pure value and postflop playability is basically irrelevant.
The “unexploitability” of a gto bot is actually just reaching an equilibrium where people cant make more money, but you absolutely can make the gto bot LOSE more money, by forcing them to pay more rake. (I feel like someone is gonna tell me this is wrong, so please refer to question 4 of this youtube video before telling me im wrong:
https://youtu.be/t3Jqs4_Rz1A?si=Qwvpk0mwsr7Ghu67 ). In this case, the above strategy would lose a LOT of money by opponents simply calling and seeing a flop with more playable hands (opponents would also lose money), and it would also miss out on ev+ opportunities with hands like 99 that would gain quite a bit of ev against their too wide calling range.
To answer your question, my home casino charges $5+3(+1 tip) which is in fact 3 BB cap, but the +3 is a promo drop and the promo is returned via EV. The game is probably near unbeatable, you need to calculate the highest EV promo times to paly and try to play at those times.
You also should adopt a 3 bet or fold strategy preflop when facing a raise. Not only does it give you zero rake preflop wins, but also the pot becomes unraked > $50 so when you get called you can get into more meaningful pots allowing for bigger errors by opponents for the same rake price.