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Message: [QUOTE="Dara OKearney, post: 5281625, member: 390655"] [b]To GTO or not to GTO[/b] I think it's very useful, but not the be all and end all. My interest in GTO started when I worked out (from first principles) my own push/shove charts based on what I perceived to be the calling ranges of my opponents in the stts that were my main online game at the time. These calling ranges changed over time (what we call population tendencies now) so every so often I would go back to recalculate the new shoving ranges based on the changes I perceived. After a few iterations of this I realised there must be an endpoint (I didn't know the terms GTO or Nash equilibrium at the time) that shoving and calling ranges converged to. Flash forward a few years and the biggest problem I identified in my own game as I moved up stakes was that against truly elite players, I felt I was getting exploited. So I started looking at the whole GTO thing again in areas other than push/fold as a defensive strategy. These days I tend to revert to my approximation of GTO against players I perceive to be much better at the levelling and adjustment game than myself, and against players I know nothing about. For players I do feel I have a read on their weaknesses, I focus more on thinking about how best to exploit those weaknesses. But even here, knowing GTO is useful as a baseline from which to adjust. In satellites, as anyone who reads "Poker Satellite Strategy" will know, this is very much my approach. I start from the GTO solution, but then go into detail about how and why to adjust against non GTO opponents. Simple example: it might be GTO to shove any two into a GTO player's big blind because they know they have to call very tight near the bubble of a satellite, but if that player is clueless and I have seen them make calls that are far too loose, then I will adjust accordingly (by shoving much tighter). Blindly sticking to GTO in these spots is just burning money. Thank you for your question. [/QUOTE]

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