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

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This book is a product of all that number-crunching combined with Michael’s incredible aptitude for organizing and presenting data. Hand Range 4: A Typical Early Position Raising Range You must be careful about the information you give away after taking certain actions, because the more information your opponents have about your range, the better decisions they can make.

This strategy of raising with the premium hands and limping with medium-strength hands is not recommended because it is easy to exploit by simply raising when the Villain limps (because you know their hand can’t be too strong) and by folding your medium-strength and weak hands when Villain raises (because you know they have a premium hand).The main focus of GTO is to always leave your opponent wondering do you have a strong or a weak hand by taking the same actions with both your weak and strong hands. Having said that, I fully understand that playing is vitally important and I believe that if I wasn’t playing at all I wouldn’t be able to help my students the way I do. Most poker rooms also have the rule that rake is only taken if a flop is dealt, so any action that finishes without a flop being dealt will not be subject to rake.

This became an instant modern classic and many players regarded it as the greatest poker book ever written. A GTO rock-paper-scissors strategy is to randomly choose one of the three options and play each of them exactly 1/3rd of the time. Mark’s mistake was assuming that his opponent’s loose preflop play indicated that he will play loosely postflop as well.Raising is also known as a 2-bet because the action of posting the big blind is considered as the first bet.

Semi-Bluff: A bet or raise made with a hand that has a decent chance of improving on a later betting round with the intention of making a better hand fold on the current betting round. They get mathematicians and game theory experts to fulfill this task for them so they can spend their time doing what they enjoy the most; winning everyone’s money at the tables. Any Two Cards (ATC): Refers to a range containing all possible holdings, often used for aggressive actions that can be taken regardless of a player’s holding.Finance is provided by PayPal Credit (a trading name of PayPal UK Ltd, Whittaker House, Whittaker Avenue, Richmond-Upon-Thames, Surrey, United Kingdom, TW9 1EH).

com with ESSENTIAL BONUS in the subject header and attach proof of purchase the Essential Video Pack (screenshot) and we will send you a link to download it . Whatever their motivations are, no one plays poker to lose money and so, at their core, all poker players share the same goal (even if they do not realize it) which is to generate and maximize profit! It is important to play aggressively against the weaker players, but also remember that you can't force them to fold. For example, in the common situation of BB vs BN, BN gets to act last on each street for the rest of the hand, so BN is IP and conversely BB is OOP.I have put my heart into this book and did my best to make it different from all other theory books, most of which present heavy-duty theoretical work with little or no consideration for practical application. By approaching each poker hand in this way they don’t need to think about how good is their opponent (leveling wars) because no matter how good they are, by making the correct GTO play they are making money in the long run. We were just beginning to learn PioSOLVER back then and Michael was a big help in structuring our findings and optimizing our studying.