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12-17-2018 , 06:18 PM

indra135

newbie

Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 26

Hey guys i'm pretty much a beginner (started playing poker since 3months ago i guess) i won some money on lowstakes cash started with 30e now at 160
but i dont play that much 4tabling.i wanna learn gto and decided to read application of nolimit holdem but the thing i'm not getting it as whole if anyone would guide me that would be great :d trying to learn as much as i can and i wanna make my game better

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12-17-2018 , 07:04 PM

sixfour

should be called sevenfour

Join Date: Dec 2005 Posts: 74,764

You do not want to learn GTO, you are a beginner. Walk before you can run. What don't you get?

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12-17-2018 , 07:39 PM

King Spew

Just average

Join Date: Apr 2006 Posts: 15,226

Agreed. GTO after ....a year. Maybe more....maybe less.....but most certainly not now when you describe yourself as a beginner.

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12-17-2018 , 08:01 PM

indra135

newbie

Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 26

why not :d

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12-17-2018 , 10:39 PM

crow27

adept

Join Date: Aug 2014 Posts: 975

"learning" GTO at the micros is a complete waste of time. If you want to get the basic idea of GTO, learn balanced preflop ranges. Pay attention to how much other players deviate from the balanced ranges (i.e. too loose or too tight given position) and adjust to or attack those mistakes.

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12-17-2018 , 10:48 PM

indra135

newbie

Join Date: Dec 2018 Posts: 26

wanna move up in stakes thats why i wanna learn it but the preflop ranges i got them already

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12-17-2018 , 11:47 PM

SpewingIsMyMove

Pooh-Bah

Join Date: Jun 2015 Posts: 3,530

One of the tenets of game theory is that exploitative strategies are also inherently exploitable. GTO play tends to minimize the degree to which you can be exploited, which also means it is not the maximally exploitive strategy when playing unbalanced opponents.

In the vast majority of games you will encounter, GTO play is not your best approach. You will typically be playing players who have observable and exploitable leaks, and playing a strategy that is indifferent to villain tendencies is basically giving away equity.

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12-21-2018 , 12:55 AM

the_spike

old hand

Join Date: Jul 2009 Posts: 1,615

If you learn GTO then you won't learn exploitive play, which is where the money is against all beginning to intermediate players.

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