Modern Poker Theory: Building an unbeatable strategy based on GTO principles

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Nut Advantage or Nut Threshold: A player has the nut advantage if the effective nut hands make up a larger portion of his range than the Villain’s range.

All of these various lines of attack are so much easier to pull off when you have position, because you get to see what they do first every single time. The book is a massive read and although it is slightly more expensive than I’ve paid for instance Moorman, you certainly get your monies worth. We block the A♦, so Villain can’t have A♦9♦, which makes A♠9♠ the only A-9 combo left in Villain’s range. Martin introduced me to the rest of his poker crew and eventually I started traveling with them, playing the live poker circuit and meeting a lot of new and interesting people from all around the world. My goal is to make game theory accessible to everyone, so players won’t have to spend all of their time running calculations and can instead do what they are supposed to be doing: playing poker!Every exploitative strategy you use can be beat by a different exploitative strategy, and it can start to feel like a guessing game. There are small sections of value here but overall difficult to read and little in the way of application. However, most modern poker theory these days focuses on how to beat the solid winning players instead.

However it probably wouldn’t take long for your opponent to realize what you are doing and change their strategy. Also, if you know what the unexploitable frequencies are, it is much easier to identify when others are playing in a way that is open to exploitation. I think this is best summed up as "All roads lead to Rome" or "There´s more than one way to skin a cat". When he showed me the Heads-Up Display (HUD) he had constructed in Hold’em Manager, I was impressed, and even a little envious. In other words, if you play a true GTO strategy there’s no possible way for your opponents to get an edge on you.It is used to create the perfect solution in each situation and prevent your opponents from exploiting you.

For example, consider a hypothetical poker situation where you know Villain holds A♠K♠ on A♣8♥7♥ and you hold Q♥J♥. Of course, just memorizing a few range charts won’t make anyone a world-class player but understanding the ranges in play will help you avoid common mistakes, allowing you to make better decisions. If you always fold to a certain opponents river bet because he ‘never bluffs’, for example, they can conceivably catch on and start bluffing you. When I first started playing the cleverest players were, arguably, those who won the most as very little “modern” information (in the form of solvers, Nash and ICM calculations) existed at the time.For instance the author confuses odds and probability, and he treats a three-handed S ‘n G as if it’s a three handed regular poker game. Of course the prior is a very simple way of looking at it and the easiest to come to, however the concept of actively folding out equity from your opponent's hand looks to be one of those little eccentricities indicative of a natural prowess for the logic of the game and self-guided learning. I have received a lot of support from the program developers Piotr Lopusiewicz and Kuba Straszewski, who incorporated many of my ideas for general improvements into PioSOLVER.