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Originally Posted by Softspot
Hiya Matt,
Fantastic book. Thanks for writing it.
I'm new to the whole GTO discussion, so I was hoping for a chapter on when to use GTO vs exploitative strategies. I guess you left it out because it has been covered in other places? If so, I'd appreciate if you could point me me in the right direction. Or better yet, offer your thoughts on GTO at SSNL, specifically $50 - $100 rush/zoom.
Cheers,
Chris
I've never been able to play on PokerStars since zoom was created, and at NL$200 rush I just played like I did in normal cash games.
GTO will obviously crush at any limit, so I think you need a pretty good reason to deviate from what you think is GTO. Even against exploitable opponents, the optimal line will usually be best. In other words, hands that work well as flop raises against GTO opponent's will usually work well as flop raises against weak opponent's too. The same goes for flop check-calls, check-folds, etc.
Right now I'm playing at what I consider soft tables and I'm just doing some basic exploitative stuff (opening the button too wide, folding a bit too much to 3-bets) and for the most part trying to play what I think is closer to optimal post-flop. More specifically, I'm putting a very lot of emphasis especially on trying to keep dominated hands in my opponent's range post flop as well as make high equity hands fold. Against weak players especially the amount of times I've won a small or medium sized pot with ace-jack high or ace-ten high is pretty crazy, but a GTO opponent would never let me win some of these pots (he'd know he needs to bluff all worse hands, but weak opponents don't always do that).