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Originally Posted by Jkpoker10
Call me crazy but low stake live mtts will always be soft- think $100-1k buy in range. the tools are out there to get much better at a cheap cost- i feel most players dont take advantage of the easy low hanging fruit thought (online training sites that cost what $10-30 a month). Typecasting players is so easy. You play a $400 tourny. say the field size is 400 players. There might be 10-20 crushers (maybe not even). Its so easy to tell who is good and who is just a rec. If you can just typecast players after some play and play strat based on them- maybe more gto against good players and exploit against bad players following some loose gto concepts- just going to do well over long run.
Low stakes live MTTs are generally still pretty soft, yeah, based on my experience playing up here the last couple of years. A handful of good players, some more solid ones, a fair number of people who aren't bad at poker per se but don't really understand tournament concepts very well, and then just some real fish who will play too many hands and play them badly.
Online, though, there are a lot more solid players even at smaller stakes.
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Originally Posted by magicbud
ICM training seems like a good place for me to start studying. Icmizer has a discount for the next 12 days, so that's where i'll likely go.
I only really understand GTO as varying your hands so you aren't as predictable. I will be reading more in to this as I heard of quite expensive programs that are based on GTO.
GTO is also about which hands you use to vary your range, in terms of board coverage and giving yourself a chance to make big hands. And, like I said, flop textures and how to size your bets based on those and with the various hands in your range. The goal of GTO play is to give your opponent no good options, so you need to, say, have the right percentage of bluffs to make opponents indifferent to calling or folding (and you need to choose the hands that are most likely to work as bluffs depending on the board and what your opponent's range likely is from the action).
You can always get something like PioSolver and try running spots in it, but that may be more than you want to spend at this time and the learning curve may be a little steep if you've never encountered solvers before.
There are also some books you can get that are cheaper than buying programs.
Modern Poker Theory can be dense but it's a good primer and the ranges included are extremely useful.
GTO Poker Simplified will help you with a lot of the basics. If you feel ready for something more detailed and conceptual, the
Play Optimal Poker books are a good choice.
(And
Endgame Poker Strategy will help you understand ICM much better.)
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Originally Posted by magicbud
I used to enjoy watching videos to learn from pros, but I tried run it once as a free trial and the videos I clicked on seemed like bad plays to me. I'm a bit worried it might be me that is well out of touch with the game.
Heh, I know there are varying opinions on the pro training sites on here, and I guess the videos are only as good as the players making them, but I haven't used Run It Once so I don't know who the pros making their videos are or what the plays in question are.