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Message: [QUOTE="John A, post: 5444251, member: 88730"] Hi Carlos. Happy new years to you! Have you watched my recently released, how to really make money at poker series? It's free on youtube. A lot of how I see poker, and how it's evolved over the years is packed in there. GTO as the new poker buzzword the last 4-5 years is good to learn at any level, but really it shouldn't be applied in micro stakes games imho. I actually posted about this the other day on 2+2 as well, and try to point out why this is the case. You'd assume the reasons would be obvious, but that's not how the poker world (or a lot of fields in the world) work in reality. In reality, someone who is considered an expert asserts a way of seeing or thinking, and then lots of people follow that approach without actually thinking for themselves. It's a lot of how human nature works. But this is why GTO approaches won't make you the most money at poker, and really it's pretty simple why it isn't ideal: You have to assume your opponent is defending at the correct frequencies with the correct range. As you know, your opponents aren't, and hence any calculations you make in solvers generally won't be accurate because your opponent is over folding / under folding. As soon as the ranges aren't correct, the bet sizing, range and frequencies that are spit back at you from solvers aren't going to be correct. It's really that simple. Now... should you study GTO play? Absolutely. You should look at your hands and understand what range your opponent should defend with, what the best bet sizing is for your hand to make your opponent indifferent to your actions, and so on... all of that is valuable info to learn from. HOWEVER, most of this should not be applied to micro stakes. Your opponents are making way too many mistakes to not play a more exploitative style. So what should you be ideally studying? Player types... personalities, and what each player types ranges generally tend to look like in reality at the table in common situations. You will learn these patterns, and I can tell you first hand you'll be able to accurately put people on pretty narrow ranges with increased practice. But it takes a hard work. You can't just push a solver button and get an answer. You're going to have to study your sessions, post hands, think about poker on your own. Everyone is always looking for the quick simplest answer, but if poker was quick and simple, there wouldn't be any money in it for the truly good players that want to study the game. If you haven't checked out those videos, I think you'll like them. I hope that helps a bit. [/QUOTE]

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