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Originally Posted by Leia Amidala
Hi Matt!
i am a 180man grinder who wants to make a transition to cash games. Ive just finished your book and i really enjoyed it. I am currently reading this thread (page 15 atm, so long way to go ) but i already have a couple of questions. Hope you can answer them.
1. on page 3 you give a 3bet range for sb vs b and bb vs sb. but these images cant be seen anymore. could you upload them again?
2. with the somewhat recent gto solvers (like piosolver) coming out. do they confirm most of your findings? Like value:bluff ratio on flop/turn/river. defending freq vs a bet IP, etc.
3. do these solvers make your book now somewhat obsolete?
Thanks in advance.
Leia.
1. I'm not home at the moment but i'll send this to you relatively soon, at least by the end of this weekend (I got your PM).
2. This is actually really hard to answer, especially since I haven't gotten to play with solvers much. Most of what I've been shown from solvers uses very mixed strats and can be hard to interpret. The book is more emphasizing models and understanding whereas solvers emphasize very very complicated solutions to pretty complicated toy games.
If I can change your question to "Do you think after reading this book you can get close to playing GTO" I'd say "Absolutely not."
3. Not at all. I suck at chess and don't like chess. But if I wanted to learn chess I'd learn it from a book/friend/video etc that explains how to play chess clearly. I don't think I"d learn all that much from a perfect playing chess bot, at least not at first.
An already expert chess player would probably learn a ton from the solver though. It depends where you are in your learning and how you like to learn for what will work better from you. I'm glad you enjoyed the book so now maybe your next step is using Snowie or a solver if you think you'll be able to interpret why the software is doing what it's doing and apply it to other situations.